Las Cruces Sun-News - In lasting memory: Forman to run in El Paso Marathon to honor former Oñate football coach Tom Essex

by Teddy Feinberg

LAS CRUCES — Ross Forman's first job out of college was as a sports writer for the Sun-News in 1989.

Forman moved to southern New Mexico as a graduate of Indiana University, in Bloomington. He was a stranger in a foreign town, working to make inroads in a new career.

It was at that point that he met Tom Essex, the head football coach at Oñate High School. - More -