LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Mayfield High School’s long-time coach, Michael Bradley, has announced his retirement. Coach Bradley joined the school as an assistant in 1994. He coached under his father, Jim Bradley, going on to win several state championships. The football program at Mayfield has always had a Bradley on the coaching staff since
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By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Gruff, pioneering and unfiltered, Mississippi State’s Mike Leach was one of the most influential football coaches of this or any generation. His boundless curiosity and fascination for people, places and things made him famous beyond the field, a unique character in sports. Leach, who helped revolutionize football
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By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Chris Beard, who coached Texas Tech to the 2019 NCAA championship game and was hired away by Texas with expectations that he would elevate his alma mater to the same level, was arrested early Monday on a felony family violence charge after a woman told
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EL PASO, Texas — The Aggies fall in another close one and split the Rio Grande Rivalry 1-1 for the season. The Rio Grande Rivalry continued Sunday. You’ll remember the UNM and NMSU Men’s basketball games were cancelled for the year after the shooting involving Aggie forward Mike Peake left a UNM student dead last
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EL PASO, Texas — The Aggies continued their three game away stretch against the Duquesne Dukes, as the investigation into players and coaches handling of the shooting involving forward Mike Peake continues. Both Chi Chi Avery and Issa Muhammad picked up minutes after their one game suspension due to their involvement in the aftermath of
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By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Houston Texans declared their intention to go back to Davis Mills as the starting quarterback. They kept the wrinkle to themselves, and had the Dallas Cowboys just enough off kilter to flirt with a big upset. Jeff Driskel threw his first touchdown pass
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EL PASO, Texas — There’s nothing quite like spending a couple of hours in the famed R. R. Jones stadium, even more so when you’re 1 of 16 high school quarterbacks competing in a competition put on by arguably the best quarterback to ever come out of El Paso – Ed Stansbury. The competition consisted
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EL PASO, Texas — UTEP is celebrating nearly 2,500 graduates from their bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate programs at the Don Haskins Center this weekend. This is the university’s largest graduating class for both their master’s and doctorate programs, with 590 master’s and 81 doctorate graduates. This year’s graduating class lived much of their education through
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EL PASO, Texas – Gibbs Keeton has been named the fourth head coach in the history of the UTEP Soccer program, Vice President and Director of Athletics Jim Senter announced on Wednesday. An El Paso native and Montwood High School graduate, Keeton joins the Miners from Texas Tech, where he served as Associate Head Coach for the last
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LUSAIL, Qatar — Argentina is advancing to the semifinals of the World Cup after a dramatic win in a penalty shootout against the Netherlands. Argentina jumped to a 2-0 lead in the second half only to lose their lead to a Dutch goal in the 11th minute of added time to force extra time after
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — New footage from an officer-worn lapel camera shows New Mexico State Police attempting to serve search warrants to NMSU basketball players ahead of the November 30 game against UTEP. According to the footage, police were looking for players Issa Muhammad, Marcellus Avery, and Anthony Roy to serve search warrants. Police
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The Associated PressALL RAYYAN, Qatar ALL RAYYAN, Qatar (AP) — Brazil eliminated from World Cup after losing to Croatia in penalty shootout in quarterfinals.
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico — ABC-7 has obtained video showing police interviewing the 17-year-old girl that’s being accused of luring NMSU basketball player Mike Peake to a UNM dorm room the night he was shot, and UNM student Brandon travis was killed. ABC-7 has chosen not to identify the 17-year-old girl or show her face due
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — NMSU has hired the Rodey Law Firm to review the deadly Nov. 19 shooting between one of its basketball players and a UNM student. NMSU Chancellor Dan Arvizu announced the decision to investigate on Tuesday. Arvizu said both regents and management agreed it was crucial to have someone else conduct
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(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) SANTA CLARA, California – In a game in which the Aggies (4-3, 0-0 WAC) matched their season-high in threes made, they need just one more to fall as they fell 66-65 on the road at Santa Clara (8-2, 0-0 WCC) on Wednesday evening.”We had a point in that game where I looked
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP’s kicker Gavin Baechle, who produced a stellar 2022 season and overall career, was named the Conference USA Special Teams Player of the Year as league officials announced its 2022 Players of the Year on Wednesday as selected by the league’s 11 head football coaches. Baechle is the first Miner to be
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — ABC-7 has confirmed three NMSU Men’s Basketball players who showed up in a yellow Camaro following a shooting between Mike Peake and a UNM student will be serving a one-game suspension for tonight’s game. Issa Muhammad and Marcelus Avery are in Santa Clara, California, for the game. Anthony Roy did
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP’s kicker Gavin Baechle, right tackle Jeremiah Byers and defensive end Jadrian Taylor were announced to the 2022 All-Conference USA first team, while defensive end Praise Amaewhule, running back Deion Hankins, linebacker Tyrice Knight and long snapper Angelo Tejada were named to the second team as selected by the league’s 11 head
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – KVIA has learned through sources close to NMSU that Mike Peake has been released from the hospital. New mexico state university coaches are accused of holding onto the gun that a basketball player allegedly used to shoot and kill a university of New Mexico student. That’s according to the ABC affiliate in
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Mike Peake has been suspended indefinitely from the New Mexico State Men’s Basketball team following his involvement in a deadly shooting on the UNM campus. Peake’s suspension was first reported by Jason Groves from the Las Cruces Sun News, and ABC-7 has since confirmed the news with Athletic Director Mario
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Quick Lane Bowl has officially announced that the New Mexico State Aggies will be taking on the Bowling Green Falcons at the 2022 Quick Lane Bowl here. It will be the first time NMSU and Bowling Green will ever play each other. The Falcons finished their regular season with
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EL PASO, Texas — The University of Pittsburgh and the University of California, Los Angeles will face off in the 89th Annual Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl. The Pitt Panthers (8-4) finished the season second in the ACC Coastal division and the UCLA Bruins (9-3) finished in 6th place in PAC-12 standings and ranked 18th
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s official; the Pittsburgh Panthers will face off against the UCLA Bruins at Sun Bowl Stadium at UTEP on December 30th at noon. The announcement was made Tuesday at the Sunland Park Racetrack and Casino, where The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl held a free event open to the public. “We
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — The Aggies topped off a week full of wins off the field with a win on the field in their 65-3 demolition of FCS program Valparaiso on Senior Day. The Aggies were led by Quarterback Diego Pavia. The QB who won the Manning Award for Quarterback of the week for
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — As first reported by Brett McMurphy, New Mexico State received an NCAA waiver, allowing it to play a bowl game. This comes after the Aggies were not able to play a 12th game against San Jose State, which was canceled due to the death of a Spartans player. An NMSU
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EDITOR’S NOTE: The original story stated that according to the Las Cruces Sun News, Mike Peake posted on his Facebook page after NMSU’s victory against UTEP on Wednesday night. This is not true. Peake’s message in the story was actually posted four days earlier. The original story follows below. LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — NMSU
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Tae Hardy (season-high 24 points, three rebounds) and Mario McKinney Jr. (career-high 22 points, seven rebounds) both had big nights, but the UTEP men’s basketball team was upended at NM State, 95-70, inside the Pan American Center Wednesday. The setback halts the Miners’ (5-2) five-game winning streak, with the Aggies
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — Aggies fans rolled into the Pan American Center for the “Battle of I-10” against the UTEP Miners on Wednesday night. While the arena wasn’t completely packed, a sizable crowd showed up for the rivalry game. This is the Aggies men’s basketball team’s first home game in Las Cruces following a
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LUSAIL, Qatar – The Mexican national team defeated Saudi Arabia 2-1 in their final match of the group stage – and missing out in dramatic fashion of advancing to the next round. In the other game of the group – Argentina defeated Poland 2-0, meaning that the European country finished ahead of Mexico on better
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JUAREZ, Mexico — Mexico and Saudi Arabia will play their last group-stage match at the World Cup Wednesday at noon. Both teams still have chances to qualify for the knockout stage; one team has it easier than the other. A win for Saudi Arabia will qualify for the next round. Mexico needs to beat Saudi
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