EL PASO, Texas – Destiny Thurman scored a career-high 30 points and UTEP led by as many as 21 on the way to a 75-62 win over North Texas on Thursday night in the Don Haskins Center. Thurman tallied 15 points in each half, going 9-of-17 from the field, 4-of-7 from beyond the perimeter and 8-of-9 from
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EL PASO, Texas – Every two years the University Interscholastic League (UIL) announces its reclassification and realignment for districts in the state of Texas. The changes will remain in place for the next two years, and once again some El Paso teams will be in for some changes next season. Multiple El Paso teams are
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP’s Greg Yellin was named the Conference USA Men’s Golfer of the Week as announced by league officials on Wednesday. The El Paso product and graduate of Coronado High Schoool shot 6-under par, 210 (71, 69, 70) and placed 13th (out of 80 competitors) at the Arizona Intercollegiate on Jan. 24-25 at the Tucson Country Club
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Head Coach Dana Dimel announced 15 student-athletes who signed National Letters of Intent and will don the Orange and Blue of the Miners. Joining the program are WR Kelly Akharaiyi (Tyler JC), OL A.J. Barton (Lakeview Centennial HS), DB D’Angelo Bellamy (Modesto JC), WR Marcus Bellon (Santa Barbara CC), DB Amier Boyd-Matthews (Mountain Pointe HS), K/P Wilton “Buzz” Flabiano (Plano East HS), QB Jake
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EL PASO, Texas – Here are some of the scores from Tuesday night’s action. These scores are from Tuesday, February 1: Boys Basketball: Burges 30 Chapin 72 Irvin 52 El Paso 66 Franklin 57 Coronado 53 Parkland 61 Canutillo 65 Americas 51 Pebble Hills 27 Eastwood 47 Socorro 12 Girls Basketball: Burges 37 Chapin 52
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball game at North Texas on Thursday (Feb. 3) has been postponed to 6 p.m. MT/ 7 p.m. CT Monday (Feb. 7) due to inclement weather. The Miners will now play at Rice as originally scheduled at 1 p.m. MT/2 p.m. CT on Saturday (Feb. 5) before facing off against the Mean Green on Monday.
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EL PASO, Texas – Souley Boum poured in a season-high 32 points (two shy of career high) while Tydus Verhoeven had a double-double (14 points, career-best 13 rebounds) and Jamal Bieniemy (13 points, six assists) and Alfred Hollins (11 points) also reached double figures in scoring to help the UTEP men’s basketball team surge past
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MIAMI, Florida – FIU led from start to finish in a 72-45 win over UTEP on Saturday afternoon in the Ocean Bank Convocation Center. The Panthers (11-7, 3-4 Conference USA) jumped out to a lead of 16 after the first 10 minutes and never looked back to hand the Miners (12-7, 4-5 Conference USA) the road loss.
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EL PASO, Texas – Senior Alfred Hollins tipped in a shot at the buzzer to lift the UTEP men’s basketball team to an exhilarating 70-68 win over Conference USA East Division leader Florida Atlantic at the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. Souley Boum poured in 28 points, Jamal Bieniemy fought through early foul trouble to add 16
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EL PASO, Texas – ABC-7 spoke with UTEP head basketball coach Joe Golding as the team prepares for another round of conference games this week. The Miners will welcome two opponents from the Sunshine State to the Don Haskins Center. Florida Atlantic will take on the Miners Thursday at 7:00 p.m., and then on Saturday
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive FC acquired goalkeeper Evan Newton on loan from Major League Soccer side Vancouver Whitecaps, the club announced today. The loan is through to the end of the 2022 USL Championship season and is pending league and federation approval. “We have been looking for a goalkeeper for a
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EL PASO, Texas – Kendra Chambers knows what it takes to compete at the next level, and now she’s giving back to the community. Earlier this month, Chambers hosted a track and field clinic at her alma mater, Hanks High School. The 31-year-old is a professional runner who has competed in the 800 meters in
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP freshman Jordani Woodley, who set a program record in the men’s 60-meter hurdles in his UTEP debut, was named the Conference USA Male Indoor Track Athlete of the Week as announced by league officials on Tuesday. All C-USA weekly award are presented by Surf and Turf Golf. Woodley blazed the track this
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP Director of Athletics Jim Senter announced on Friday that Beach Volleyball will join the Miners’ sport lineup in the spring of 2023. The addition of Beach will give UTEP a total of 17 Division I teams. I t marks UTEP’s first sport addition since softball began competition in 2004. UTEP Volleyball Coach Ben Wallis will also serve as the
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EL PASO, Texas – After being down by as many as 13 points, the UTEP men’s basketball team (10-8, 3-3) roared back to topple UTSA (7-12, 0-6), 69-64, at the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. Jorell Saterfield poured in a career-best 18 points, all on three pointers, helping spark the second-half comeback. Boum scored a game-high 22
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners will continue Conference USA play this week as they prepare for a home-and-home series against UT-San Antonio. When you look at the records for both teams, this should be a matchup that favors the Miners. UTEP enters the series with an overall record of 9-8, 2-3 in C-USA,
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(Courtesy: El Paso Chihuahuas/Tim Hagerty) EL PASO, Texas – Former Major League infielder Jared Sandberg has been named the new manager of the El Paso Chihuahuas, the Chihuahuas and San Diego Padres announced today. Sandberg becomes the sixth manager in Chihuahuas history. The Chihuahuas’ new coaching staff includes pitching coach Mike McCarthy, hitting coach Jonathan Mathews,
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CHARLOTTE, North Carolina – Jamal Bieniemy (game-high 21 points) and Souley Boum (14 points) both hit double figures in scoring, and UTEP (8-8, 1-3 C-USA) defended with a vigor in a 66-53 setback at Charlotte (8-5, 1-0 C-USA) Thursday evening. UTEP limited the 49ers to 40.0 percent from the floor and forced 17 turnovers, but the home
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EL PASO, Texas – Longtime El Paso sports journalist Ray Sanchez has died at the age of 94. It was a career that spanned decades and saw him work for various newspaper organizations in El Paso. Sanchez, a graduate of El Paso High School worked for the El Paso Herald Post, the El Paso Times
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EL PASO, Texas – It’s always emotional when Chapin and Andress get together on the hardwood, but it was more so on Tuesday night with the man largely responsible for the game’s importance not physically present on the sideline. Andress Head Coach Jim Forbes is currently hospitalized due to complications from COVID-19, and the entire
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive FC has announced Midfielder Eric Calvillo is set to join the club for the 2022 USL Championship, pending league and federation approval. Calvillo is currently with El Salvador’s Men’s National Team for CONCACAF FIFA 2022 World Cup Qualification and will join El Paso Locomotive at the
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EL PASO, Texas – Jamal Bieniemy poured in a game and career-high 28 points and UTEP (7-7, 0-2 C-USA) refused to go away quietly in a 64-52 setback to LA Tech (12-3, 3-0 C-USA) inside the Don Haskins Center Thursday evening. The Miners kept the Bulldogs to 16 points below their seasonal scoring average (80.1 ppg) entering
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ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico – Former Americas Trail Blazer, Aaron Dumas, is looking for a change of scenery after he announced Thursday he’s entering the transfer portal. The star running back played one season at New Mexico. As a true freshman, Dumas was the leading rusher for the Lobos. He ended the 2021 season with a
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EL PASO, Texas – It’s no question that UTEP is fighting for head coach Joe Golding to begin his first year in charge. But his team will need to fight even harder over their upcoming two-game C-USA homestand with key contributors missing out. The Miners (7-6, 0-1) are set to welcome in Louisiana Tech on
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(Courtesy: El Paso Locomotive FC) EL PASO, Texas – El Paso Locomotive FC is set to kick off its 2022 USL Championship home campaign against its long-standing rival New Mexico United on Saturday, March 19 at 7:30 p.m. MT at Southwest University Park. The Locos kicks off its season one week earlier on the road against Sacramento Republic on Saturday, March
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP women’s basketball games scheduled for this Thursday and Saturday at Louisiana Tech and Southern Miss have been postponed due to multiple positive COVID-19 cases and subsequent contact tracing in the Miner program. No immediate decision has been made about the potential rescheduling of these games. The Miners are next scheduled to return to
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ARLINGTON, Texas — There have been times this season where the Dallas Cowboys looked good enough, played well enough and looked complete enough to convince many to believe that this team might be different. Different from the last 26 teams who have donned the star and failed repeatedly to reach the promised land of a
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By BRETT MARTEL AP Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Al Walcott set a Sugar Bowl record with a 96-yard interception return, Monaray Baldwin raced 48 yards for the go-ahead score on an end around, and sixth-ranked Baylor beat No. 8 Mississippi 21-7 as injured Rebels quarterback Matt Corral looked on from the sideline. Abram
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DALLAS, Texas — FC Dallas and United States international forward Ricardo Pepi, an El Paso native, is close to finalizing a deal that would see him land with Bundesliga side FC Augsburg, sources confirmed to ESPN. Fabrizio Romano and 90min were the first to report the impending deal. The sources said that if the deal is completed, the transfer fee would be in the
Continue Reading By Wayne Sterling, CNN Dan Reeves, the former National Football League head coach and Dallas Cowboys running back, has died, according to NFL.com. He was 77. Reeves died early Saturday at his home in Atlanta “due to complications from a long illness,” according to a family statement to NFL Network’s Mike Garafalo. Reeves died “peacefully
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