(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) MESA, Arizona – Despite four strong innings from righty Chris Barraza, the NM State Aggies baseball program fell to the Seattle U Red Hawks 10-0 Friday in a WAC Tournament elimination game at Hohokam Stadium. Sophomore righty Rorik Maltrud (3-4) took the loss for the fourth-seeded Aggies (20-34), after pitching just 3.1 innings. Maltrud
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The return to watching sports in person is supposed to be a happy time, including at the NBA playoffs, but clearly some fans have forgotten how to act. Three NBA teams indefinitely banned fans Thursday after incidents in which attendees exhibited unruly and outright disrespectful behavior toward players on Wednesday. “The return of more NBA
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EL PASO, Texas – In comparison with most kids his age, Diego Luna’s summer job is pretty exciting. At 17 years old, he’s the youngest player in El Paso Locomotive FC history. He may be a bit out of place in a locker room of seasoned veterans but on the field, his talent is advance
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EL PASO, Texas – New UTEP men’s basketball head coach Joe Golding added some international flavor to the 2021-22 roster as Kezza Giffa, a product of Paris, signed an NLI to play for the Miners. Giffa is a 6-2, lefty point guard and will have four years of eligibility for the Orange and Blue. Giffa
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(Courtesy: El Paso Chihuahuas) EL PASO, Texas – El Paso second baseman Ivan Castillo made a jumping catch with two outs in the top of the ninth inning Thursday to rob Cody Bellinger of a hit and seal a 6-4 Chihuahuas win over the Oklahoma City Dodgers. The victory snapped El Paso’s six-game losing streak. Nick Tanielu
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EL PASO, Texas – The Riverside Rangers are hoping their playoff run will continue for at least one more weekend. The Rangers find themselves in the sweet 16 of the Class 4A baseball playoffs. The only team from El Paso left standing in the playoffs. Friday, Riverside will face Stephenville in game one of the
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – UTEP’s Roosa Yloenen advanced to nationals in the women’s javelin on day two at the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminaries on Thursday afternoon at E.B. Cushing Stadium. Yloenen, a product of Hankasalmi, Finland, is the first UTEP female javelin thrower in over 10 years to advance. “The ladies opened up their
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – The Mountain West announced that the UTEP-Boise State game is moving to Friday, Sept. 10 and will be televised on FS1 with kickoff slated for 7:30 p.m. MT at Albertsons Stadium. The contest was originally scheduled for a Sept. 11 date. “We’re excited to play Boise State under the Friday night lights on national
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EL PASO, Texas — The 2021 Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl is set for Friday, Dec. 31 at 10:30 a.m. The 87th Sun Bowl returns after it was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. Executive Director Bernie Olivas and CBS administrators said they decided to move the kick-time up from the original 12 p.m.
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Japan’s government will decide Friday whether to extend a state of emergency across much of the country, nearly two months before the planned start of the delayed Tokyo Summer Olympics. The country reintroduced emergency measures in April as it grappled with a fourth wave of coronavirus cases — one that has yet to diminish. Japan’s
Continue Reading Naomi Osaka, a four-time major champion and the No. 2-ranked women’s tennis player in the world, announced on Twitter and Instagram that she will not be participating in press conferences during the French Open. “I’ve often felt that people have no regard for athletes mental health and this rings very true whenever I see a
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MESA, Arizona – It couldn’t have been a better start for the NMSU baseball team. Wednesday, in Mesa, Arizona, the Aggies defeated Seattle University, 7-5, in their opening game of the WAC Tournament. NMSU entered the tournament as a 4th seed, while the Seattle Redhawks were a 5th seed. With the Aggies trailing 3-2 in
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COLLEGE STATION, Texas – UTEP’s Paulo Benavides was the first Miner in over 20 years to advance to nationals in the pole vault, while a trio of sprinters – Sean Bailey, Shakeem Smith and Jevaughn Powell – earned spots in the next round on opening day in the 2021 NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West
Continue Reading Villarreal won its first major European trophy after defeating Manchester United in a marathon penalty shootout in the UEFA Europa League final. With the game poised at 1-1 after extra-time, United goalkeeper David de Gea missed the decisive penalty after all previous 21 penalties had been scored, including by De Gea’s opposite number, Gerónimo Rulli.
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(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Three members of the NM State track and field team will head to College Station, Texas, for the NCAA Outdoor Track and Field West Preliminary on Thursday and Saturday. The top 48 individuals in their respective events qualified for the east and west preliminaries. The top 12
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Athletic Department has announced the ‘UTEP Athlete Network,’ an online community for current and former student-athletes, in a new partnership with Grafted, an ed tech company based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Through the partnership, UTEP Athletics will be able to leverage the company’s video-first technology platform to help fulfill
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(Courtesy: NMSU Athletics) MESA, Arizona – The NM State Aggies baseball program opens the 2021 Western Athletic Conference Tournament Wednesday night against Seattle. First pitch from Hohokam Stadium is set for 7 p.m. MT. The winner of Wednesday matchup between the fourth-seeded Aggies and fifth-seeded Redhawks will advance to the winner’s bracket where either No. 1 Grand Canyon or
Continue Reading International Olympic Committee member Dick Pound says he believes the Olympic Games will go ahead this year and says the option of canceling the event is “essentially off the table.” Speaking to CNN’s Selina Wang, Pound insisted that all indications suggest a “bubble” around those participating in Tokyo can be maintained but he stopped short
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A federal judge has ruled that a 15-year-old soccer player should be able to be signed by the National Women’s Soccer League despite the league’s existing age restriction. In a ruling issued Monday, Judge Karin Immergut approved a temporary restraining order that would require the NWSL to lift its age restrictions, allowing Olivia Moultrie to
Continue Reading A 21-year-old University of Cincinnati soccer player drowned in a state park in Ohio over the weekend, authorities said. The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) said witnesses reported Allyson Sidloski, of Strongsville, Ohio was hanging from the platform of a boat before disappearing into the water in East Fork State Park just before 5
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(Courtesy: El Paso Chihuahuas) SUGAR LAND, Texas – The Sugar Land Skeeters defeated the El Paso Chihuahuas by a score of 7-2 for the second consecutive night Monday, handing El Paso its fifth consecutive loss. John Andreoli and Gosuke Katoh hit home runs on back-to-back pitches in the top of the sixth inning for El Paso’s
Continue Reading Connecticut Sun head coach and general manager Curt Miller has been fined $10,000 and suspended for one game after making a comment to a game official regarding Liz Cambage of the Las Vegas Aces, the WNBA said Monday. In an Instagram story, Cambage said that Miller tried to get a call from one of the
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP track and field team will compete in 13 events at the NCAA West Preliminaries on May 26-29 at E.B. Cushing Stadium in College Station, Texas. Traveling for the UTEP men are Sean Bailey (400m, 4×400), Paulo Benavides (pole vault), Kevin Hewitt (4×400), Joshua Hill (4×400), Aleks Hristov (discus), Dennis Johnson
Continue Reading The NFL is reviewing claims made by a former player and coach in the league, who said he was told he was “not the right minority” while interviewing for a job this offseason, according to the Boston Globe. Eugene Chung, who worked as an assistant coach for the Philadelphia Eagles and the Kansas City Chiefs,
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EL PASO, Texas – New UTEP men’s basketball head coach Joe Golding announced his second recruit as Jorell Saterfield, a 6-foot-4 transfer from Ranger College, signed a letter of intent to play for the Miners on Monday afternoon. Saterfield is no stranger to the borderland after playing his high school hoops in Las Cruces, N.M., at Mayfield.
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EL PASO, Texas – Attendance for future El Paso Chihuahuas baseball games and El Paso Locomotive FC soccer matches will be allowed at 100% capacity at Southwest University Park, officials announced Monday. Capacity at the downtown sports venue that is home to the two teams had been capped at 70%. “The El Paso region has made
Continue Reading Max Mosley, the former president of motorsport’s world governing body, FIA, has died at the age of 81, an FIA spokesperson told CNN on Monday. Mosley became FIA President in 1993 and served four terms before standing down in 2009. His successor and current FIA President Jean Todt tweeted on Monday: “Deeply saddened by the
Continue Reading Phil Mickelson minted golf history on Sunday, becoming the oldest winner of a major tournament with his victory at the 2021 PGA Championship. He finished two shots ahead of Brooks Koepka and Louis Oosthuizen at Kiawah Island’s Ocean Course, following an excellent final round performance, finishing six-under for the tournament. In winning at aged 50,
Continue Reading Here’s a look at the PGA Championship, one of the four Grand Slam golf tournaments; the others are the Masters, British Open and the US Open. May 23, 2021 – American golfer Phil Mickelson wins the 103rd PGA Championship at Kiawah Island Golf Resort in South Carolina. Mickelson, 50, becomes the oldest winner of a
Continue Reading An Olympic silver medalist and mom of two children came out of her nine-year retirement at age 32 to compete in a gymnastics tournament Saturday. Chellsie Memmel competed in two events at the GK US Classic in Indianapolis, scoring 13.750 on the vault and finishing with an 11.800 score on the beam. The Wisconsin native
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