The 2020 NFL season kicked off Thursday evening with the Kansas City Chiefs playing the Houston Texans at Arrowhead Stadium. With a few fans in the audience, the game honored two national anthems — both the “Star-Spangled Banner” and “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” commonly known as the Black national anthem. Here’s everything that happened
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DALLAS, Texas — Forbes estimates the Dallas Cowboys are the NFL’s most valuable franchise at $5.7 billion, the 14th consecutive year they’ve held that distinction. According to the magazine, Jerry Jones’ team is also the most valuable franchise in the world. After the Cowboys, the six-time Super Bowl champion New England Patriots are second in
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP is now in search for a new men’s golf coach. Thursday, Scott Lieberwirth resigned as UTEP Men’s Golf head coach after leading the program for the last nine years. Lieberwirth’s last day at UTEP will be Sept. 25. He is leaving to pursue other professional opportunities outside of college athletics. A
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KANSAS CITY, Missouri — In a usual NFL offseason, the news of Patrick Mahomes signing the wealthiest contract in sports history would be one of the biggest — maybe the biggest — stories for the league of the summer. But as the $450 million man leads the Kansas City Chiefs against the Houston Texans tonight
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EL PASO, Texas — UTEP’s Gavin Hardison has been named one of eight quarterbacks for The Manning Award’s “Stars of the Week” following his performance in the Miners’ season-opening win over Stephen F. Austin on Saturday. The weekly award, which is sponsored by the Allstate Sugar Bowl, is decided by a fan vote with voting set
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EL PASO, Texas – High school sports teams returned to in-person practices on Tuesday. In this age of COVID-19, safety is the number one priority. All summer long high school student-athletes remained uncertain whether there would even be a season. Another step forward was taken on Tuesday when schools opened up to allow students to
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EL PASO, Texas — ABC-7 spoke with UTEP head football coach Dana Dimel for a look ahead to Saturday’s match up against the University of Texas. The Miners enter the game with a 1-0 record after defeating Stephen F. Austin this past Saturday at the Sun Bowl. UTEP knows they’ll face a much tougher opponent
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — The Covid-19 pandemic has caused major disruptions to sporting events worldwide. No league, sport or team has been immune to the impacts of the virus. However, Bernie Olivas, the director of the Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl is an optimist. “We can’t give it up. We cannot give it up,”
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DALLAS, Texas – Two icons in the Lone Star State have announced a Texas-sized partnership, ABC affiliate KSAT reported. Whataburger was named the “Official Burger of the Dallas Cowboys,” the San Antonio-based chain announced Tuesday, just days before the Dallas Cowboys kick off the 2020 season. “Football is serious business in the Lone Star State, and
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EL PASO, Texas — It was a long journey to get to this point, but Saturday night college football returned to the Sun Bowl. The UTEP Miners kicked off the season and got its first win against the Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks, an FCS school out of the Southland Conference. The final score was 24-14.
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Locomotive FC (5-2-3, 18 points) secured its first series win over regional rival New Mexico United with a 3-2 scoreline in front of a sold-out capacity crowd of 1,519 fans on Saturday night. Macauley King scored his first goal in a Locomotive jersey while Dylan Mares put away the late game-winner.
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WASHINGTON, DC — El Paso native and NFL rookie quarterback Steven Montez has been waived by the Washington Football Team (formerly known as the Redskins), failing to secure a spot on the roster, according to a report Saturday from The Washington Post. After going undrafted in the 2020 NFL Draft, Montez had signed a free
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College football is back, but this year could be a little less exciting if your FBS conference or team isn’t playing. So, instead of sidelining your fandom, let’s find another team worthy of your body paint. There are six conferences playing football this fall and three independent teams. SEC ACC (plus independent Notre Dame) Conference
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EL PASO, Texas – The El Paso Marathon will have live racing in February. Organizers made the announcement Friday afternoon. The event’s three races — the Michelob Ultra El Paso Marathon, the TFCU Half Marathon and the El Paso 5K — will be held on three consecutive days on Feb. 12-14. The races will adhere
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso County Coliseum and the El Paso Sports Commission announced Friday that a new arena football team is coming to the Borderland. The team will be known as the West Texas Buccaneers. The Buccaneers will be in the American Arena League and play their home games at the Coliseum.
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EL PASO, Texas — Voices in sports span lifetimes. From Don Haskins to Rodney Terry, Bob Stull to Dana Dimel, Jon Teicher has been there every step of the way, albeit in a difference capacity. As the “Voice of the Miners” Teicher enters his 40th season as UTEP’s play-by-play broadcaster. UTEP fans have heard the
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EL PASO, Texas – An El Paso high school teacher needs some help if she wants to land the cover of a fitness magazine. Clarissa Marquez is an English teacher at El Paso High School, but fitness is also one of her passions. Marquez got into body building two years ago and she’s won several
Continue Reading The NFL, which until recently had restricted its players from protesting on the field for social change, is going all in for the 2020 season. Commissioner Roger Goodell in a call on Tuesday walked members of the media through a series of social justice initiatives the league has planned, including helmet decals, a voter activation
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EL PASO, Texas — The El Paso Rhinos came through on its biggest power play in franchise history. The city of El Paso was announced as the winner of 2020 Kraft Hockeyville contest Sunday night, ensuring that they will host an NHL preseason game and receive $150,000 in arena upgrades. The announcement was made on
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HOUSTON, Texas — Major League Baseball postponed Sunday’s scheduled game between the Oakland Athletics and Houston Astros “out of an abundance of caution” following a positive Covid-19 test in the Athletics’ organization. MLB said additional testing and contact tracing will be conducted. The game was set to be played at Minute Maid Park in Houston.
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EL PASO, Texas — Fans of El Paso Locomotive FC were treated to a show in their return to Southwest University Park, though it probably had a little more drama than expected. Bryam Rebellon’s incredible goal in the 86th minute was difference maker, as El Paso earned a much-needed three points in a 2-1 win
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EL PASO, Texas – You might not associate a sport played on ice with the Sun City, but don’t tell the NHL! The city El Paso is one of four finalists for Kraft Hockeyville, a national competition where one lucky community gets to host an NHL game, and earns a $150,000 upgrade to their arena.
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EL PASO, Texas — The UTEP Miners are ready to kickoff their season and fans will be allowed to see the Miners in action in person. Single-game tickets and parking passes to each of UTEP’s six 2020 football home games will go on sale Monday (Aug. 31) at 8 a.m. Due to reduced seating capacity in the Sun Bowl,
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ARLINGTON, Texas — The Oakland Athletics have decided not to play their series finale at Texas in support of racial justice. Oakland’s decision comes a day after three Major League Baseball games were postponed in response to the police shooting of a Black man in Wisconsin last weekend. The Rangers say they respect the decision
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EL PASO, Texas — UTEP Athletics has announced its COVID-19 Fan Protocols for the 2020 football season, which will kick off next Saturday (Sept. 5) when the Miners host Stephen F. Austin in the Sun Bowl. “We have spent the better part of the last few months analyzing our venue and, in coordination with our Special Events team, have
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EL PASO, Texas — UTEP Head Coach Dana Dimel confirmed today that redshirt sophomore Gavin Hardison will be the Miners’ starting quarterback for their season opener against Stephen F. Austin, but it appeared imminent prior when competition TJ Goodwin was absent from Sunday practice. Dimel would not comment on Goodwin’s absence, but the redshirt freshman
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EL PASO, Texas – Aaron Dumas may not know for sure if there will be a 2020 high school football season, but he knows for sure where he will be playing in 2021. The star Americas (HS) running back committed to New Mexico today via his twitter page, marking a huge coup for first-year coach
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EL PASO, Texas – The Conference USA Board of Directors announced on Friday the postponement of all fall team sports to the spring, with the exception of football. This means that UTEP women’s soccer and volleyball will be pushed back to spring of 2021. 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐔𝐒𝐀 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭
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EL PASO, Texas – After weeks of opponents falling off of UTEP’s 2020 football schedule, the Miners on Friday have filled some of those voids agreeing to home football games with FCS opponent Stephen F. Austin on Sep. 5 and Abilene Christian on Sep. 19. Both games will kickoff at 7 p.m. at the Sun
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EL PASO, Texas — As UTEP legend Jon Teicher gets set for his 40th season as the Miners play-by-play voice, he does so with a new partner. Former UTEP Quarterback Mike Perez will join Teicher in the booth for football games this fall. Perez played for UTEP from 1990-1993, and his brother Rocky led UTEP
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