EL PASO, Texas — Could Rodney Terry leave a head coaching job for an assistant role? Sources have told ABC-7’s Nate Ryan that the UTEP head men’s basketball coach is indeed a candidate to join new University of Texas head coach Chris Beard’s staff in Austin. Beard was introduced as the next Longhorns coach on
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ATLANTA, Georgia — Major League Baseball announced Friday it was moving this summer’s All-Star Game from Atlanta’s Truist Park, a response to Georgia enacting a new law last month restricting voting rights. MLB had awarded the game to Atlanta in May 2019 and the game was scheduled for July 13 as part of baseball’s midsummer
Continue Reading If baseball is a metaphor for American life, Opening Day brought a tantalizing springtime hint of better days ahead, despite reflecting a nation divided by the polarized politics of a pandemic and Georgia’s battle over Republican voter suppression. Annual first rites of a new season played out in front of well-below-capacity and socially distanced crowds,
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HATTIESBURG, Mississippi – The Miners are surviving and advancing for the first time in 13 years. UTEP volleyball (10-6, 8-4 C-USA) defeated Marshall (10-5, 8-4 C-USA) in straight-sets in the Conference USA Tournament Quarterfinals Thursday afternoon in Hattiesburg, Ms., for the program’s first postseason victory since 2008. The Miners are now riding a five-match winning streak, all
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP soccer team has had their share of ups and downs both on and off the field. But the Miners are still in the mix to hopefully qualify for the Conference USA Tournament. UTEP’s last scheduled game at UT-San Antonio was postponed due to positive cases of Covid-19 within the
Continue Reading One of college basketball’s all-time coaching greats is calling it a career. Roy Williams, who led North Carolina to three national championships and guided UNC and Kansas to nine Final Fours, is retiring after 33 seasons as a head coach, UNC said. “I no longer feel that I am the right man for the job,”
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EL PASO, Texas – These days it might be easier to keep up with who isn’t in the transfer portal than who is. It’s certainly looking like it for the UTEP Miners. The Miners lost two more to the portal Thursday, as starting center Tydus Verhoeven and reserve guard Adam Hess both submitted their names
Continue Reading After an abbreviated 2020 season that is now a blur, Major League Baseball returns Thursday with all 30 teams in action before actual human spectators for a six-month, 162-game trudge to the postseason. Fingers crossed. Before a single pitch was thrown, the Washington Nationals announced their home opener against the New York Mets Thursday night
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WASHINGTON, DC — The New York Mets season opener at Washington has been postponed because of coronavirus concerns. The Nationals issued a statement saying “ongoing contact tracing involving members of the Nationals organization” was the reason for scrapping Thursday night’s game at Nationals Park. The game has not yet been rescheduled. Nationals general manager Mike
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TOKYO (AP) — Japan has designated Osaka and two other areas for new virus control steps as infections in those areas rise less than four months before the Tokyo Olympics. Osaka, neighboring Hyogo and Miyagi in the north have had sharp increases in daily cases since early March, soon after Japan scaled down a partial
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EL PASO, Texas – No. 2 seed (West) UTEP volleyball (9-6, 8-4 C-USA) squares off with No. 3 seed (East) Marshall (10-4, 8-4 C-USA) in round one of the Conference USA Tournament Thursday, April 1, at 1 p.m. MT in Hattiesburg, Ms. The Miners will go for their first Conference USA Tournament victory since 2008 when UTEP defeated Memphis in the
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EL PASO, Texas — It can certainly be a sign that things are slowly getting back to normal in the Borderland. On April 24, the sport of boxing will return to the Don Haskins Center. The event is being organized by Golden Boy Promotions, that’s the promotion run by boxing icon Oscar De La Hoya.
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – After not having a fall football season in 2020 due to Covid-19, the NMSU Aggies are back. Wednesday, NMSU announced the 2021 schedule for the fall football season. The Aggies will play a total of 12 games, 5 at home, 7 on the road. NMSU’s 2021 campaign begins Saturday, Aug. 28,
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP’s Sean Bailey was announced as the Conference USA Male Track Athlete of the Week as released by league officials on Wednesday. The senior sprinter took the silver medal in the 400m event and helped the Miners to a first-place finish in the 4x400m relay at the 93rd Clyde Littlefield Texas Relays on March
Continue Reading This year’s March Madness might have exposed gaps in gender equity in college sports, but for two Black women, the 2021 NCAA women’s tournament will always represent a moment when history was made. For the first time in NCAA women’s tournament history, two Black women will be head coaches in the same Final Four. South
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Players and staff of NBA team Utah Jazz were left “shaken, but unharmed” after a bird strike forced the plane they were on to make an emergency landing on Tuesday. The travel party had been heading to the team’s next game against the Memphis Grizzlies on a chartered flight but, just minutes into the journey,
Continue Reading Many have completed a marathon, but no-one has done anything like Michael Miraglia’s Strongman Marathon. The fitness coach and CrossFit athlete covered 26.2 miles on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats in February by completing a variety of exercises. The challenge, which Miraglia dreamed up himself, included a mile of a single exercise such as tire flips,
Continue Reading INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana — Gonzaga’s countdown to perfection has ticked to two. The Bulldogs are back in the Final Four, two wins from becoming the first undefeated team since the 1976 Indiana Hoosiers. And, after all those upsets, the March Madness apex in the Hoosier State will be a high-seeded affair. Gonzaga is a No. 1
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EL PASO, Texas – The area round of the high school soccer playoffs continued on Tuesday. Quite a few El Paso teams punched their ticket to the regional quarterfinals. Here are the final scores from Tuesday’s action: Class 6A Boys Southlake Carroll 1 Eastlake 4 Final Pebble Hills 0 Byron Nelson 1 Final Coronado 2
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EL PASO, Texas — El Paso Locomotive FC in conjunction with USL Championship unveiled its full 2021 Regular Season schedule Tuesday, presented by Locomotive’s Premier Corporate Partners. Locomotive’s third USL Championship campaign features 32 games – 16 home, 16 away – over the course of 26 weeks beginning with a home opener at Southwest University Park on May 8 against its
Continue Reading Game official Bert Smith collapsed Tuesday evening in the first half of the men’s NCAA basketball game between No. 6 seed USC and No. 1 overall seed Gonzaga in Indianapolis. Smith was taken off on a gurney. He was sitting upright and appeared to be talking to a man walking beside him. Smith was feeling
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EL PASO, Texas – The boys of summer will soon make their return to Southwest University Park. Of course, we’re talking about the El Paso Chihuahuas. After the 2020 season was cancelled due to Covid-19, the Chihuahuas are ready to return to the field. Tuesday, the team announced the coaching staff for this year’s club.
Continue Reading NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is increasing the regular season to 17 games and reducing the preseason to three games to generate additional revenue for America’s most popular sport. Team owners on Tuesday approved the 17th game as expected, marking the first time in 43 years the regular season has been increased. It went
Continue Reading Japan recorded the second-biggest win in its history, thrashing Mongolia 14-0 in a World Cup 2022 qualifier. Werder Bremen striker Yuya Osako scored a hat trick, while Liverpool midfielder Takumi Minamino — who is currently on loan at Southampton — was also on the scoresheet. Mongolia, who are ranked No. 190 in the world, registered
Continue Reading Fernando Alonso’s Renault-owned Alpine team have blamed a discarded sandwich wrapper for wrecking the double world champion’s Formula One comeback race in Bahrain on Sunday. The Spaniard retired from his first race since 2018 after the car’s rear brakes overheated. “After the second stop, a sandwich wrap paper got stuck inside the rear brake duct
Continue Reading Since announcing himself on the world stage with a PGA Tour victory as a rookie in 2019, Chile’s Joaquin Niemann has established himself as one of golf’s most exciting prospects. It’s been a whirlwind six months on the course for the Santiago native and a series of outstanding results have seen the 22-year-old break into
Continue Reading Sergio Aguero will leave Manchester City when his contract expires at the end of the season, the club has announced. The 32-year-old Argentine, considered to be one of the greatest players in Premier League history, joined from Atletico Madrid in 2011 and went on to win four Premier League titles, one FA Cup and five
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SANTA TERESA, New Mexico — For a southern New Mexico high school coach, the last year was a game changer. Art Aguirre spent more than a month unconscious, recovering from Covid-19. He’s now back on the court and his team is competing in the state tournament. Aguirre is the volleyball coach at Santa Teresa High
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EL PASO, Texas – Monday was not a good day for El Paso schools looking to keep their state title hopes alive. In Class 5A, the Bel Air High School boys team lost to Amarillo Palo Duro, 2-1 in the area round of the high school soccer playoffs. The Highlanders were hoping to reach to
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EL PASO, Texas – In what has become the most common theme of college basketball offseasons, the UTEP Miners have lost their second player to the NCAA transfer portal in the last two weeks. Forward Efe Odigie, who played in 14 games this season and proved a legitimate part of Rodney Terry’s rotation, has entered
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