EL PASO, Texas — Lou Holtz, one of the winningest coaches in college football history, who led the University of Notre Dame to an undefeated season in 1988, has died at the age of 89. Holtz’s death was confirmed on Wednesday by the university, which shared a tribute on its website to its former football coach. “Notre
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EL PASO, Texas – Cristo Fernández, 35, is giving it his best shot as he tries out for the El Paso Locomotive FC. The actor is best known by fans for his role as Dani Rojas in the hit television show ‘Ted Lasso.’ Fernández made an appearance with the Locos during the club’s preseason match
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EL PASO, Texas – AEW returns to El Paso Wednesday night for AEW Dynamite. The show will take place at the Don Haskins Center and will start at 5:30 p.m. This is the third time AEW brings their weekly wrestling show to El Paso. The event will be shown worldwide and televised nationally on TBS
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EL PASO, Texas – And then there was one! The Burges Mustangs pulled off another upset Tuesday taking down the Fort Worth Brewer Bears in the Sweet 16 of the Class 5A division 2 playoffs. Final score was 44-40. The Mustangs advance to the Elite 8 of the state tournament and will face Mansfield Summit
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EL PASO, Texas – AEW returns to El Paso Wednesday for AEW Dynamite. The nationally televised wrestling show will be broadcast live on TBS. This is the third time AEW brings their premiere weekly wrestling show to El Paso. The first two events took place at the El Paso County Coliseum, but this year for
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team “Senior Day” game against Jax State has been moved to 1 p.m. at the Don Haskins Center on Saturday. Fans are encouraged to arrive early for the special pre-contest ceremony that will honor seniors Cassius Brooks and Jamal West Jr., who will be playing their final game
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Returning to action from the Pan American Center for the final time in the regular season, NM State (9-19, 5-11 CUSA) played host to Jacksonville State (14-15, 8-9 CUSA). Despite a solid effort from freshman Senoj Jones in her first collegiate start, the Aggies failed to find a rhythm offensively, falling
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LYNCHBURG, Virginia – UTEP track and field’s Oleksandr Blonskyi (pentathlon), Praise Djoma (triple jump), Juan Leal (mile), and Cydni Martin (200m) each medaled in their respective events on the last day of competition at the 2026 Conference USA Indoor Track & Field Championships at the Liberty Indoor Track Complex on Saturday. Overall, the Miners set 16
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EL PASO, Texas – In a one-point battle on Senior Day inside the Don Haskins Center, the UTEP women’s basketball team came up just short in a 58–57 loss to Kennesaw State on Saturday. The Miners moved to 13–14 overall and 5–11 in Conference USA play. UTEP shot 35.8 percent from the field (19-of-53) and went 15-of-17
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee (KVIA) — NM State (13-15, 6-12 CUSA) battled for 45 minutes today but came up just short in an 86–85 overtime loss to Middle Tennessee (15–14, 9–9 CUSA) inside the Murphy Center. Coming out of the gate, both teams struggled to find rhythm offensively and went scoreless for nearly the first four minutes of action. With 16:05
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BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky – Jamal West Jr. (22 points), Kaseem Watson (15 points) and Caleb Blackwell (14 points) all reached double figures in scoring, but the UTEP men’s basketball team was bounced at high-flying WKU, 97-65, Saturday afternoon. There was a frenetic pace of play from the opening tip, with the Miners (10-19, 6-12 CUSA) and
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — Following seven male head coaches, the UTEP track and field program turned a new page last July by naming Francesca Green as their first female head coach in program history. After spending the past 20 years at the University of Arizona where she served in several roles including associate head coach,
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – UTEP softball (7-9) battled through a full day of action at the UNM Invitational, coming up short in a pair of contests Saturday. The Miners fell to Houston Christian, 7-5, before dropping a 7-2 decision to Tarleton State. Overall Recap Despite the results, UTEP’s offense continued to produce, as the Miners combined for 17
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EL PASO, Texas – Seven El Paso teams took the court Friday as the area round of the boys high school basketball playoffs continued. When all was said and done, only two El Paso schools would advance to the next round. Andress and Burges won their respective area round games to punch their ticket to
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — UTEP Volleyball received a $1 million gift to help begin renovation of the Memorial Gym. Bob McFadden, DDS gifted the $1 million to the program, it is the largest donation to a women’s sport in UTEP Athletics history. McFadden joined UTEP President Heather Wilson, Volleyball Coach Ben Wallis and Vice
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EL PASO, Texas – In a thrilling finish inside the Don Haskins Center, the UTEP women’s basketball team came up with back-to-back late steals and clutch baskets to secure a 66–64 victory over Jax State on Thursday night. The win marked Head Coach Keitha Adams’ 400th career Division I victory, a milestone achieved in dramatic
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MURFREESBORO, Tennessee – For the third straight game, the UTEP Miners came out on the losing end of another Conference USA contest. This time the Miners were defeated by the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders, 77-67. UTEP showed some fight in the final ten minutes of the game, but they were never able to take the
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BOWLING GREEN, Kentucky – NM State (13–14, 6–11 CUSA) faced an uphill battle from the opening minutes on Wednesday night, falling 93-70 to WKU (17–11, 10–7 CUSA) inside E.A. Diddle Arena. Coming out of the gate, the Hilltoppers struck first with a three-pointer from Grant Newell and quickly seized momentum. WKU capitalized on early Aggie
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — A heart condition sidelines 22-year-old Yazmin Herrera and forced her off the court, but it didn’t end her journey, it simply redirected it as she returned to Ysleta as a head coach for the girls JV team. “When they told me it was my heart, I mean I was really
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team (10-17, 6-10 CUSA) will begin its final roadswing of the regular season when it plays at Middle Tennessee (13-14, 7-9 CUSA) at 5:30 p.m. MT/6:30 p.m. CT Thursday. The Miners will be vying to snap a mini two-game skid, in addition to attempting to complete a
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EL PASO, Texas – The bidistrict round of the boys high school basketball playoffs concluded on Tuesday. Several El Paso area teams advanced to the area round. The following scores are from Tuesday: CLASS 6A DIVISION 1 Midland Legacy 42 Eastlake 66 Franklin 53 Odessa Permian 42 CLASS 6A DIVISION 2 Eastwood 55 Frenship 41
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA)- MountainStar Sports Group (MSSG) announced Tuesday that there will be a leadership transition within MSSG. Current President of MSSG, Alan Ledford, will now become Senior Advisor for MSSG, where MSSG says Led will provide strategic input across MSSG’s operations and investments. Brad Taylor, current Senior Vice President of MSSG, will continuing
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (KVIA)- The Mountain West Conference has announced Tuesday that UTEP will play at North Dakota State University in the 2026 football season. NDSU, after playing in the FCS since 2004, will play its first FBS game in 2026. UTEP’s contest against the Bison will replace the game scheduled at UNLV, and will
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EL PASO, Texas – The boys high school basketball playoffs began Monday with only two games in El Paso. A vast majority of El Paso teams will take the court Tuesday. In Class 5A Division 2, the Andress Eagles defeated the Bel Air Highlanders, 59-58. In Class 4A Division 2, the Mountain View Lobos defeated
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EL PASO, Texas – The Battle of I-10 fallout continued Monday as both head coaches responded to questions about the scuffle that happened after the game. NMSU won the game 67-63, and during the team handshakes, UTEP head coach Joe Golding appeared upset and began to argue with NMSU head coach Jason Hooten. The two
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The five-time Olympian crashed during the women’s downhill event two weeks ago. Lindsey Vonn documents journey from Italy to US Lindsey Vonn says she’s out of the hospital after Winter Olympics crash By Yi-Jin Yu February 23, 2026, 10:14 AM Five-time Olympian Lindsey Vonn says she has been discharged from the hospital following a major crash at the Milan
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — The UTEP women’s basketball team earned a 69–58 road victory over NM State on Saturday at the Pan American Center in Las Cruces, N.M. With the win, the Miners improved to 12–13 overall and 4–10 in Conference USA play, completing a season sweep of the Aggies for the first
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico (KVIA) — New Mexico State men’s basketball earned a 67-63 win over the UTEP Miners to split the regular-season Battle of I-10 series on Saturday. At the half, Caleb Blackwell led the way for the Miners with 11 points. Even though NMSU’s star guard Jemel Jones had a slow start, he
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Jamal West Jr. tallied a game-high 22 points while Caleb Blackwell poured in 18 points, aided by drilling four 3-pointers, but the UTEP men’s basketball team was held off at I-10 rival NM State, 67-63, Saturday evening. The Miners (10-17, 6-10, CUSA) jumped to an early 8-2 lead before the Aggies
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EL PASO, Texas – The Americas Trail Blazers are moving on to the next round of the Class 5A Division 1 girls basketball playoffs. Thursday, Americas defeated Wichita Falls Legacy in the area round by a final score of 56-43. The game was played in Andrews, Texas. Americas will move on to the Sweet 16
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