Inside sports, a NMSU's teams come known as a Aggies, a nickname from either a school's agrarian beginnings. It compete in the Western Athletic Conference. Their mascot wwhen erst handgun Pete, however Pete experienced his pistol flushed inside 2005 as section of the university's project to remake its image on a national stage; now, the mascot is known only when "Pete," whose handgun has been replaced by having the lasso. NMSU's colors come flush & whiten.

NMSU has major competition by using a University of New Mexico (the NMSU-Just released Mexico football is known as "The Battle of I-25"), and a University of Texas at El Paso (called "The Battle of I-10", with a winner of a NMSU-UTEP football acquiring the Silver Spade).

NMSU has 2 radio stations also as the TV station & a student redo newspaper. the radio stations come KRUX, the station rerun by students, & KRWG a public radio station. A TV station is too known per letters of KRWG. A Spherical Higher is the student dog newspaper.

Points of interest
A. R. Leding Cactus Garden