EL PASO, Texas – The final scores from week 3 of the high school football season are listed below. Canutillo 34 Chapin 13 Riverside 52 Ysleta 27 Americas 36 Del Valle 49 Franklin 41 Andress 21 Coronado 10 Carlsbad 9 Eastwood 14 Smithson Valley 42 Parkland 13 Eastlake 36 El Dorado 16 Pebble Hills 34
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SAO PAULO (AP) — Retired Brazilian soccer star Pelé remains in intensive care as he recovers from surgery to remove a tumor on the right side of his colon. Hospital Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo said in a statement that 80-year-old Edson Arantes do Nascimento was recovering “in a satisfactory manner,” though still in intensive
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By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Pro Football Writer DALLAS (AP) — The NFL has suspended Dallas Cowboys right tackle La’el Collins for five games for violating the league’s substance abuse policy. The suspense comes a day after Collins played his first game since 2019 in the Cowboys’ 31-29 loss to Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay in
Continue Reading By Jacob Lev, CNN Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer’s administrative leave has been extended through the rest of the season, according to a source with direct knowledge of the situation. According to the source, Major League Baseball and the MLB Players Association recognized that based upon the number of games remaining on the team’s
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Aaiden Diggs, the son of Dallas Cowboys cornerback Trevon Diggs, mixed up his quarterbacks when he got to meet the Cowboys’ QB Dak Prescott on an episode of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” and confused him with Kansas City Chiefs’ QB Patrick Mahomes.
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EL PASO, Texas – Week three of the high school football season kicked off Thursday with three games in the Borderland. The final scores from Thursday are as follows: Burges 13 Montwood 29 Socorro 46 El Paso 23 Mayfield 23 Centennial 56
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tom Brady threw for 379 yards and four touchdowns, helping the defending Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers kick off the NFL season with a mistake-filled 31-29 victory over the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night. With seats in a NFL stadium filled to full capacity for the first time since the
Continue Reading By ROB MAADDI AP Pro Football Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Dak is back and he’s still not enough for the Dallas Cowboys. Playing his first game since suffering a gruesome ankle injury 11 months ago and then signing a $160 million contract, Dak Prescott was outstanding against a defense that shut down Patrick Mahomes
Continue Reading By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer The opening season for the Raiders in Las Vegas proved to be a bit of a dud. With no fans allowed at games, the Raiders stumbled to a 2-6 record at home in their first season since moving from Oakland and missed the playoffs for the 17th time
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP’s football program is used to playing non-conference road games as heavy underdogs in recent years, as they will be this Friday night at Group of Five powerhouse Boise State. It is however a fresh and encouraging feeling going in unbeaten, as they are off to their first 2-0 start since
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EL PASO, Texas – The Sweet Play of the Week for week 2 went to the Andress Eagles and wide receiver Malachi Do. In the game against Parkland, Do ran for a 90 yard touchdown to help lead the Eagles to their second win of the season. Andress is currently 2-0 this season and will
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By The Associated Press Texas and Arkansas are set to renew a legacy rivalry before it becomes a regular one once again when the Longhorns join the SEC. Texas quarterback Hudson Card gets his first road start for the No. 15 Longhorns. He’ll face a hostile crowd in Fayetteville. Razorbacks defensive back Jalen Catalon had
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By FRED GOODALL AP Sports Writer TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Lofty expectations don’t faze Tom Brady and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The reigning Super Bowl champions open the 2021 season against the Dallas Cowboys on Thursday night, confident they have everything it takes to become the first team to win back-to-back titles since Brady led
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SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras — El Paso native Ricardo Pepi scored a goal and had three assists as the United States raced to a 4-1 win at Honduras in a World Cup qualifying match that saw Christian Pulisic hobble off with an injury. The result in San Pedro Sula gives the USMNT its first win after
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico — He was a star basketball player at New Mexico State University and is now the head coach of a powerhouse basketball program. But most recently, William Benjamin had a health scare – and basketball is taking a back seat until he can get better. Benjamin, the 13-year head coach of
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – It is once again rivalry week for the New Mexico State Aggies. This time the Aggies are playing in state rival New Mexico in the Rio Grande Rivalry. For the Aggies it’s a chance to get their season on track after a 0-2 start to their 2021 campaign. The New
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer HOUSTON (AP) — The Houston Texans will be without kicker Kaʻimi Fairbairn because of an injury Sunday when they open the season against the Jacksonville Jaguars. Fairbairn missed the final preseason game Aug. 28 against Tampa Bay with what the team called a minor pulled muscle in his leg,
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(Courtesy: El Paso Chihuahuas) EL PASO, Texas – The Round Rock Express beat the El Paso Chihuahuas 9-6 Tuesday night at Southwest University Park to close El Paso’s 12-game homestand. The Chihuahuas lost five of the six games to Round Rock and nine of the 12 games on the homestand. Nick Tanielu and Gosuke Katoh both went
Continue Reading By Steve Almasy and Christina Carrega, CNN Two-time Pro Bowl running back Clinton Portis and two other former NFL players have pleaded guilty for their roles in a nationwide health care benefit fraud scheme to submit false claims for payouts totaling about $3 million, the Justice Department said Tuesday. Portis, Tamarick Vanover and Robert McCune
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EL PASO, Texas – Ema Uskokovic has been named the Conference USA Volleyball Freshman of the Week after helping UTEP claim the Borderland Invitational with victories against Power Five members Arizona (3-2) and Northwestern (3-0) on Sept. 3 and a 3-2 win against I-10 rival NM State on Sept. 5. It is the second straight
Continue Reading By Kristen Rogers, CNN As more people get vaccinated against Covid-19 and the National Football League season starts September 9, you may be wondering whether the time to trade your couch for a stadium seat is finally here. The factors that made pre-pandemic sporting events fun — excited people crowding together, cheering, talking, eating, drinking
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By JIM VERTUNO AP Sports Writer AUSTN, Texas (AP) — Hudson Card did everything Texas hoped he would in his first career start at quarterback for the Longhorns. He passed and ran well in a comfortable home victory over Louisiana-Lafayette. Going on the road to Arkansas could be much harder to do. A hostile, sellout
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By The Associated Press PARIS (AP) — Former France and Paris Saint-Germain defender Jean-Pierre Adams has died after spending 39 years in a coma. He was 73. In a poignant tribute, PSG called him the club’s “glorious elder.” Adams has been lying in a coma at his home in the southern French city of Nimes
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EL PASO, Texas – As UTEP and New Mexico State prepared for a decisive 5th set, UTEP Head Volleyball Coach Ben Wallis pulled senior outside hitter Serena Patterson aside. With the full crowd at Memorial Gym on their feet, Wallis had to lean in to be audible. “It was real simple,” Wallis said of his
Continue Reading By Eric Levenson, CNN Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady had Covid-19 in February shortly after the Super Bowl championship boat parade and is now vaccinated, the Tampa Bay Times reported Saturday. “You guys beat Covid last year. It’s still around. You’ve had it?” reporter Rick Stroud asked. “Yeah,” Brady said, according to the Times.
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CARSON, Calif. (AP) — Greg Bell ran for a touchdown and a career-high 165 yards, Jordon Brookshire scrambled for a score, and San Diego State pulled away in the third quarter to beat New Mexico State 28-10 in the Aztecs’ season opener. Bell’s 23-yard touchdown run pulled San Diego State to 10-7 early in the
Continue Reading By KRISTIE RIEKEN AP Sports Writer COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Leon O’Neal Jr. had two interceptions, returning the second one 85 yards for a touchdown, and Devon Achane added two scores to help No. 6 Texas A&M pull away in the third quarter and cruise to a 41-10 win over Kent State Saturday night.
Continue Reading DENTON, Texas (AP) — DeAndre Torrey ran for 244 yards and three touchdowns on 25 carries and North Texas opened the season with a 44-14 romp over FCS-member Northwestern State. Torrey staked the Mean Green to a 7-0 lead with a 24-yard TD run with 4:35 left in the first quarter. His second touchdown run
Continue Reading By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Max Duggan threw for a touchdown and was one of four TCU players with a rushing score as the Horned Frogs routed lower-division Duquesne 45-3 in an opener shortened in the second half. The coaches agreed to play 12-minute quarters after halftime with the
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GAME FINAL REPORT: EL PASO, Texas — Gavin Hardison threw a career-high three touchdown passes, Willie Eldridge and Ronald Awatt each had over 100 yards rushing, and UTEP beat Bethune-Cookman 38-28 on Saturday night in the home opener for UTEP. Hardison lofted passes into the end zone from inside the 10 that set up fantastic catches
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