DALLAS (AP) — The Dallas Mavericks have signed free agent Frank Ntilikina, adding the guard picked one spot before their selection of Dennis Smith Jr. in the top 10 of the 2017 draft. Ntilikina spent four years with the New York Knicks, who drafted him eighth overall four years ago. Smith went ninth to the
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By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chargers QB Justin Herbert found out less than a minute before last season’s Week 2 game against the Kansas City Chiefs that he was going to take his first NFL snap. Nearly a year later, Herbert has emerged as one of the top young quarterbacks
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EL PASO, Texas – The Riverside Rangers are off to a hot start this season with a perfect 3-0 record. They also didn’t waste any time getting some cupcakes courtesy of Albertsons. The Rangers were the winners of week three’s Sweet Play of the Week. In the game against Ysleta, Riverside linebacker Rudy Valenzuela stripped
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By The Associated Press No. 7 Texas A&M will look to extend its winning streak to 11 games when the Aggies host New Mexico Saturday. Quarterback Zach Calzada will make his first career start for A&M with Haynes King out indefinitely after surgery to repair a broken leg. New Mexico is led by QB Terry
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By Jill Martin, CNN A major sports broadcasting barrier has been broken. Lisa Byington has been hired by the defending NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks as the team’s television play-by-play announcer for games on Bally Sports Wisconsin, the Bucks announced Wednesday. The move makes Byington the first woman hired as a full-time TV play-by-play announcer for
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – El Paso Locomotive FC (13-2-7, 46 points) split the points with Colorado Springs Switchbacks FC in a scoreless draw at Weidner Field on Wednesday night. Goalkeeper Logan Ketterer earned his sixth clean sheet of the season for the club’s tenth. It was a game of capitalizing on passes
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EL PASO, Texas — The Dallas Stars and Arizona Coyotes will travel to El Paso to play in a preseason game on Oct. 3, the NHL announced Wednesday. El Paso is hosting the game after winning the Kraft Hockeyville USA 2020 contest to find the most-spirited hockey communities in the country. El Paso was awarded
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EL PASO, Texas – Three games into the college football season, the UTEP Miners are getting some much needed rest. UTEP is on a bye week and will use the week off to let some injured players heal up, and prepare for their next opponent, the University of New Mexico. The Miners are coming off
Continue Reading Simone Biles/Olympic Gymnast: “I blame Larry Nassar and I also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse.”
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Athletics announced on Wednesday that volleyball’s Alyssa Sianez has been awarded $2,500 in tuition from the College Football Playoff (CFP) Foundation and Dr Pepper. Sianez is a sophomore majoring in mathematics. This season she has helped UTEP equal its best record (8-1) through nine matches in program history. The starting libero leads the
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(Courtesy: El Paso Chihuahuas) ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – The Albuquerque Isotopes scored three late unanswered runs to come back and beat the El Paso Chihuahuas 4-3 Tuesday night at Rio Grande Credit Union Field. The Isotopes won four of the six games in the series and took the season series against El Paso 13 games to 11.
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP soccer team (2-5) will open up Conference USA action with two games this week. The Miners will play host to No. 20 Rice (6-1-1) at University Field at 7 p.m. MT Thursday before wrapping up the week at (RV) North Texas (5-1-2) at 12 p.m. MT Sunday. Both the
Continue Reading By David Close and Steve Almasy, CNN When the new NBA season begins October 19, players will not have to be vaccinated against Covid-19 to play, a source with knowledge of negotiations between the league and the players’ union told CNN on Tuesday. The source told CNN that unless something completely unforeseen happens during the
Continue Reading By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — NBC owes Tom Brady a thank you note. The ageless Tampa Bay Bucs quarterback led a charge in the annual NFL kickoff game, reaching some 24.8 million last Thursday for the matchup with the Dallas Cowboys. That represented a healthy increase from the 2020 season
Continue Reading By SIMMI BUTTAR AP Pro Football Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers are on top of the first AP Pro32 poll of the season. The Kansas City Chiefs, who lost to the Bucs in the Super Bowl, are at No. 2. The Seattle Seahawks and New Orleans followed at
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EL PASO, Texas — For Luke Laufenberg, one spring of practice was all he had to make an impression. Though Luke never played a down for the UTEP Miners, that short impression has refined the program for all time. And now two years after Luke’s death, the program has done the same for his family.
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EL PASO, Texas — It’s a once in a lifetime opportunity for some UTEP Miners. The UTEP Cheer and Dance teams have been invited to participate in the 95th annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade, but they need your help to get to the Big Apple. The teams auditioned for the historic parade and were finally
Continue Reading By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Novak Djokovic’s bid for the first calendar-year Grand Slam in men’s tennis since 1969 ended with a loss to Daniil Medvedev in the U.S. Open final. Medvedev’s 6-4, 6-4, 6-4 victory Sunday gave him his first major championship and prevented Djokovic from collecting what would
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By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Tyrod Taylor threw for 291 yards and two touchdowns filling in for Deshaun Watson to lead the Houston Texans to a 37-21 win over Trevor Lawrence and the mistake-prone Jacksonville Jaguars. Taylor took over at quarterback for Houston this season with Watson’s future with the team
Continue Reading By Chloe Melas The NFL is back for their 2021-2022 season and that means we get another “Sunday Night Football’ song performed by Carrie Underwood. “This season is my ninth season working with the incredible people at ‘Sunday Night Football.’” Underwood said in a recent press release. “People, they need that togetherness. I love the
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — Quarterback Deshaun Watson was inactive as expected for Houston’s opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars. The reason was listed as not injury related. Coach David Culley said early in the week that Watson would not play and named Tyrod Taylor the team’s starting quarterback. Watson’s future with
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EL PASO, Texas – It felt like El Paso Locomotive FC had been away from home for longer than three weeks. They certainly reminded their home fans how thoroughly they can dominate a game Saturday night. Josue Aaron Gomez headed home a Diego Luna cross in the 7th minute to open the scoring, and Eder
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – Walk-on quarterback Dino Maldonado was never mentioned by New Mexico State Head Coach Doug Martin as candidate to be the Aggies’ quarterback heading into the season. But after leading the Aggies to their most points all season at their in-state rival Saturday, albeit in a 34-25 loss to the New Mexico
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LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Tahj Brooks ran for two touchdowns in the third quarter, including a 67-yarder for the lead, and Texas Tech held on to beat lower-division Stephen F. Austin 28-22. The Red Raiders made a stand in the final two minutes, forcing a turnover on downs after the FCS Lumberjacks had a first
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By ERIC W. BOLIN Associated Press FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas piled up 333 rushing yards and got touchdowns from four different players on the ground in a 40-21 win over No. 15 Texas. Dominique Johnson scored from five yards in the second quarter. Trelon Smith, Raheim Sanders and AJ Green scored in the second
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By TIM REYNOLDS AP Sports Writer MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) — The most notable catch in Saturday’s game between No. 22 Miami and Appalachian State didn’t even happen on the field. Wasn’t even a football. It was a cat. The animal somehow got into Hard Rock Stadium, then got caught by one of its paws
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By ARNIE STAPLETON AP Sports Writer DENVER (AP) — Freshman quarterback Haynes King’s backup started out slowly, finished precious few drives and even fumbled the football a whisker from the goal line. Sophomore Zach Calzada came up clutch in the end, though, throwing an 18-yard touchdown pass to running back Isaiah Spiller with 2:41 remaining
Continue Reading By STEPHEN HAWKINS AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Quentin Johnston caught two of Max Duggan’s three touchdown passes and TCU beat California 34-32. Johnston got the go-ahead score with a nifty catch-and-run that covered 45 yards. Duggan then added a 9-yard rushing TD. Zach Evans ran for 183 yards on 22 carries,
Continue Reading Usree Bhattacharya, a professor at the University of Georgia who has a child with a rare medical disorder, pleads with the university’s board and students ahead of a home college football game.
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BOISE, Idaho — Boise State rolled to a 54-13 win over UTEP on Friday night as the Broncos’ Hank Bachmeier threw for 340 yards and two touchdowns, and Stefan Cobbs added a special teams touchdown and a 61-yard scoring reception. UTEP appeared primed to put up a fight early despite being 25-point underdogs. But six
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