EL PASO, Texas – Senior Alfred Hollins tipped in a shot at the buzzer to lift the UTEP men’s basketball team to an exhilarating 70-68 win over Conference USA East Division leader Florida Atlantic at the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. Souley Boum poured in 28 points, Jamal Bieniemy fought through early foul trouble to add 16
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Head Coach Joe Golding has always said that his first year is about establishing a culture within his program, while preaching patience with wins. With how the last two weeks have gone for the Miners, it appears both could be coming to fruition. The Miners (11-8, 4-3 C-USA) have won
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Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback “Big Ben” Roethlisberger announced Thursday morning that he’s retiring from the NFL. The two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback made the announcement in a social media post. A message from Ben:@steelers #NFL #SteelersNation #ThankYou#HereWeGo #LoveAndHonor pic.twitter.com/pUbKGO1nUs— BigBen7.com (@_BigBen7) January 27, 2022 Roethlisberger led the Steelers to the playoffs in his final season. The
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EL PASO, Texas – ABC-7 spoke with UTEP head basketball coach Joe Golding as the team prepares for another round of conference games this week. The Miners will welcome two opponents from the Sunshine State to the Don Haskins Center. Florida Atlantic will take on the Miners Thursday at 7:00 p.m., and then on Saturday
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive FC acquired goalkeeper Evan Newton on loan from Major League Soccer side Vancouver Whitecaps, the club announced today. The loan is through to the end of the 2022 USL Championship season and is pending league and federation approval. “We have been looking for a goalkeeper for a
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EL PASO, Texas – We’re less than three weeks away from this year’s El Paso Marathon, happening the weekend before Valentine’s Day. Over 3,000 participants are expected for all of the events. Race organizers are hoping for much better weather this year than runners experienced in 2021, and they’re also hoping that you’ll volunteer your
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EL PASO, Texas – Kendra Chambers knows what it takes to compete at the next level, and now she’s giving back to the community. Earlier this month, Chambers hosted a track and field clinic at her alma mater, Hanks High School. The 31-year-old is a professional runner who has competed in the 800 meters in
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP freshman Jordani Woodley, who set a program record in the men’s 60-meter hurdles in his UTEP debut, was named the Conference USA Male Indoor Track Athlete of the Week as announced by league officials on Tuesday. All C-USA weekly award are presented by Surf and Turf Golf. Woodley blazed the track this
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas – UTEP Head Coach Joe Golding knew exactly what his 59-54 win over UTSA meant on Sunday. “That’s a winning streak!” said an excited Golding on ESPN radio postgame. “Two games isn’t a winning streak, three games is.” The Miners not only secured their third straight win, but continued to show poise
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas – In the current WAC standing, New Mexico State has gone from being the hunted to the hunter. Aggies’ guard Jabari Rice is perfectly fine with it. “There’s a lot more pressure when you’re the hunted than when you’re the hunter,” said Rice following the Aggies’ 762-58 win at Stephen F. Austin Saturday.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Freshmen Jordani Woodley and Celina Johannsen set school records in their collegiate debuts, and a total of 11 Miners turned in top three performances as the UTEP track and field team completed its first indoor meet of 2022 and first since 2020 on Saturday afternoon at the Martin Luther King Jr. Collegiate
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter announced on Friday that Beach Volleyball will join the Miners’ sport lineup in the spring of 2023. The addition of Beach will give UTEP a total of 17 Division I teams. I t marks UTEP’s first sport addition since softball began competition in 2004. UTEP Volleyball Coach Ben Wallis will also serve as the
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Jim Forbes, one of the Borderland’s biggest basketball icons died Friday morning. Forbes was 69. The legendary Andress High School Basketball coach was hospitalized with Covid-19 for a few weeks. “He was the definition of a legend, a selfless leader. Coach would give you the sweater of his back to
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EL PASO, Texas – Longtime El Paso sports journalist Ray Sanchez has been laid to rest. Sanchez died on Jan. 12 at the age of 94. A mass was held at St. Matthews Catholic Church on Sunset Friday morning at 10 a.m. He was laid to rest at Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Santa Teresa, New
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EL PASO, Texas – After being down by as many as 13 points, the UTEP men’s basketball team (10-8, 3-3) roared back to topple UTSA (7-12, 0-6), 69-64, at the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. Jorell Saterfield poured in a career-best 18 points, all on three pointers, helping spark the second-half comeback. Boum scored a game-high 22
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(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) HUNTSVILLE, Texas – A Sam Houston state squad which brandished out some impressive firepower ambushed NM State (15-3, 5-1 WAC) inside Bernard G. Johnson Coliseum as the Aggies found themselves down 38-18 at the half before falling 71-46 to the Bearkats in the first meeting between the two programs since 2005. The
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP tennis team will christen its dual-match season with a match at perennial power Texas Tech (11 a.m. MT/12 p.m. CT Friday) before returning home to welcome Western New Mexico (12 p.m. MT Sunday) for its home opener at El Paso Tennis Club at 12 p.m. MT Sunday. Admission is free for UTEP’s
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners will continue Conference USA play this week as they prepare for a home-and-home series against UT-San Antonio. When you look at the records for both teams, this should be a matchup that favors the Miners. UTEP enters the series with an overall record of 9-8, 2-3 in C-USA,
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP spring semester began Tuesday, but students returned to the classroom at a time when Covid-19 cases continue to rise in the El Paso community. UTEP President Heather Wilson sent out a guide for staff members. In the letter, Wilson repeated the importance of protecting one another. “We value in-person
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EL PASO, Texas – Eric Lira, a “naturopathic” therapist from El Paso, is being held at the El Paso downtown detention facility. He was taken into custody on Jan. 12. The arrest stems from an FBI investigation in which U.S. prosecutors say he used his medical connections in Juarez to send at least one athlete
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(Courtesy: El Paso Chihuahuas/Tim Hagerty) EL PASO, Texas – Former Major League infielder Jared Sandberg has been named the new manager of the El Paso Chihuahuas, the Chihuahuas and San Diego Padres announced today. Sandberg becomes the sixth manager in Chihuahuas history. The Chihuahuas’ new coaching staff includes pitching coach Mike McCarthy, hitting coach Jonathan Mathews,
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By Ben Morse, CNN NFL veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford got his first career playoff victory on Monday night as the Los Angeles Rams comfortably beat the Arizona Cardinals 34-11. Stafford, who is in his first season with the Rams after spending his first 12 with the Detroit Lions, threw for 202 yards and two touchdowns
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By DARKO BANDIC and DUSAN STOJANOVIC Associated Press BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Novak Djokovic has returned home after being thwarted from defending his Australian Open title only to face a new predicament: He could be barred from the French Open this year, too, if he’s still not vaccinated against COVID-19. A plane carrying the No.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Teddy Allen scored 41 points last season as a member of the Nebraska Cornhuskers, but it came in a game his team lost to Penn State. So Allen’s 41-point effort on Saturday against Abilene Christian probably feels a little better since it helped the Aggies beat Abilene Christian 77-63 on
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NORFOLK, Virginia – For a moment, it looked like a familiar story for suffering UTEP basketball fans. But under new UTEP coach Joe Golding, this Miners’ team has a refreshing fight. They showed it on Saturday night at Old Dominion, and the result is the team’s first C-USA road win in seven tries. Jamal Bieniemy
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(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – All week long – well, all year long, really – defense was the calling card for Tarleton and the thing it did best. NM State would be sure to have its hands full against the Texans’ gnashing, ball-hawking, hard-nosed defense. Billy Gillispie’s club used their defense to
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Jamal Bieniemy (game-high 21 points) and Souley Boum (14 points) both hit double figures in scoring, and UTEP (8-8, 1-3 C-USA) defended with a vigor in a 66-53 setback at Charlotte (8-5, 1-0 C-USA) Thursday evening. UTEP limited the 49ers to 40.0 percent from the floor and forced 17 turnovers, but the home
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) El Paso, Texas – El Paso Locomotive FC, alongside the USL Championship, unveiled its full 2022 Regular Season schedule today, presented by Locomotive’s Premier Corporate Partners. The full regular season calendar features 34 matches (17 home; 17 away) beginning on March 12 and concluding October 8. Locomotive will play 12 of its home games
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EL PASO, Texas – Longtime El Paso sports journalist Ray Sanchez has died at the age of 94. It was a career that spanned decades and saw him work for various newspaper organizations in El Paso. Sanchez, a graduate of El Paso High School worked for the El Paso Herald Post, the El Paso Times
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EL PASO, Texas – Charges have been filed in federal court in Manhattan against Eric Lira, a “naturopathic” therapist from El Paso, accusing him of obtaining and distributing performance-enhancing drugs to certain athletes ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Lira was taken into federal custody today. According to the complaint obtained by ABC-7, Lira obtained
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