EL PASO, Texas – Spring football practices are now underway for the UTEP Miners. The Miners held their first practice Monday morning at the Sun Bowl. UTEP head coach Scotty Walden kicks off his third season with the Miner. This year, the Miners are preparing for their first season in the Mountain West Conference. There
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TUCSON, Arizona – The #74-ranked UTEP men’s golf team finished tied for eighth at the 46th Arizona Thunderbirds Intercollegiate hosted by the University of Arizona at Tucson CC (par 72 | 7,533 yards) on Tuesday. It was the Miners’ eighth consecutive top 10 finish this season, and 12th dating back to the 2024-25 campaign. UTEP last finished
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP and the Mountain West Conference announced the 2026 football schedule as the Miners play their first MW game at longtime rival New Mexico. UTEP is slated to play all its contests on Saturdays. UTEP head coach Scotty Walden commences his third season at Oklahoma on Sept. 5, while the Miners
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LAMESA, Texas – The Burges boys basketball team put up a valiant fight Friday in the regional final of the Class 5A division 2 playoffs. However, the Mansfield Summit Jaguars controlled the game from start to finish as they defeated the Burges Mustangs by a final score of 50-30. The Jaguars advance to the Final
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners snapped a four game losing skid Thursday night after defeating the Kennesaw State Owls, 78-71. UTEP’s Jamal West Jr. was the team’s leading scorer with 28 points. Kennesaw State came into the game on a 4 game win streak, but that win streak came to an end at
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) – For Jeneca Montoya coaching basketball is in her blood. Her father is George Maya, longtime head basketball coach for the girls’ team at Mayfield High School. Jeneca is his assistant coach and the two have shared countless of memories on the basketball court. “I love coaching, but I love it more because it’s with
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – The UTEP women’s basketball team fell 71–59 at Sam Houston on Thursday night, moving to 13–15 overall and 5–12 in Conference USA play. UTEP shot 40.7 percent from the field (22-of-53), including 6-of-15 from three-point range (40.0 percent), and went 9-of-12 at the free-throw line (75.0 percent). The Miners also forced 18
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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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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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EL PASO, Texas – Bel Air High School named its next head football coach and athletic coordinator Wednesday afternoon. Ariel Famaligi joins the Highlanders after serving as offensive coordinator at Franklin High School. Famaligi does have experience as a head football coach. From 2016 to 2022, Famaligi was the head football coach at Montwood High
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EL PASO, Texas – The girls high school basketball playoffs continued Tuesday with the bidistrict round. The scores below are from Tuesday: CLASS 6A DIVISION 2 San Angelo Central 31 Montwood 55 CLASS 5A DIVISION 2 Parkland 29 Burges 78 Andress 23 Hanks 39 CLASS 4A DIVISION 1 Ysleta 43 Irvin 46 CLASS 4A DIVISION
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP track and field’s Praise Djoma was named the Conference USA Women’s Field Athlete of the Week as announced by league officials on Tuesday. It was her second consecutive weekly honor. Djoma turned in a personal-best leap of 6.16 meters (20-2.5) in the women’s long jump and took the title at the
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LYNCHBURG, Virginia – The UTEP women’s basketball team dropped a 58–48 decision on the road at Liberty on Thursday inside Liberty Arena. The Miners move to 10–13 overall and 2–10 in Conference USA play. UTEP forced 22 turnovers and recorded 11 steals, creating multiple transition opportunities, but Liberty’s efficiency inside proved decisive. UTEP finished the
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JACKSONVILLE, Alabama – The UTEP men’s basketball team buried 11 3-pointers and used a big run in the second half to rally past second-place Jax State on the road, 69-64, Wednesday evening. In a tilt that featured seven ties and 12 lead changes, it was the Miners (10-15, 6-8 CUSA) who got hot at the
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EL PASO, TX (KVIA)– After having their bags checked and waiting for updates, passengers at El Paso International Airport are now boarding flights they didn’t think they would be able to take just hours earlier. One passenger said he had no idea about the disruption until he got there and initially believed his flight was
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team (9-15, 5-8 CUSA) will take aim at back-to-back wins when it locks up at second-place Jax State (13-10, 8-4 CUSA) at 5 p.m. MT/6 p.m. CT on Wednesday. The Miners rallied from 14 points down in an eventual 91-88 OT triumph against I-10 rival NM State
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EL PASO, Texas – Since 2022 El Paso Rhinos owner Cory Herman has helped setup the ice for NHL games played not indoors, but outside in the elements. It all started in 2021, the year El Paso was awarded a pre-season NHL game. NHL officials were impressed with how Herman was able to maintain an ice rink at the County Coliseum Events Center
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RUSTON, Louisiana – NM State (11-11, 4-8 CUSA) put together a strong second-half performance to battle its way to a 72-63 road victory over Conference USA foe LA Tech (12-10, 5-6 CUSA) on Wednesday night inside the Thomas Assembly Center. While they trailed by one at halftime, the Aggies shot 58% in the final 20
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas – Jamal West Jr. (22 points) and Caleb Blackwell (career-high 21 points) both had big scoring nights while the UTEP men’s basketball team defended with a vigor, but homestanding Sam Houston held off the hard-charging Miners, 70-66, at Johnson Coliseum Wednesday evening. UTEP (8-15, 4-8 CUSA) kept the Bearkats to 34.4 percent (21-61)
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DALLAS, Texas – Elijah Jones, who nearly averaged a double-double in a pair of contests, has been voted as the Conference USA Men’s Basketball Player of the Week, the league office revealed Monday. Jones, who claimed a quartet of CUSA Freshman of the Week honors two years ago, has now hauled in his first career CUSA
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP women’s basketball team (9-10, 1-7 CUSA) returns to the Don Haskins Center Saturday for a marquee rivalry matchup, hosting NM State (7-13, 3-5 CUSA) in the 100th edition of the Battle of I-10. Tipoff is set for 2 p.m. MT as the Miners look to turn the page in
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EL PASO, Texas – It was a reunion 50 years in the making. The Eastwood Troopers are the last El Paso high school team to win a UIL state championship in basketball. Tuesday, the team came together at an Eastwood basketball game to celebrate and to reminisce about the day they made history. The team was honored during halftime as each
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EL PASO, Texas – Elijah Jones (career-high 25 points) and Kaseem Watson (20 points) both had big offensive nights while Jamal West Jr. posted his fourth double-double of the year (10 points, 11 rebounds) but it wasn’t enough as the UTEP men’s basketball team was clipped by LA Tech, 69-59, at the Don Haskins Center
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EL PASO, Texas (KVIA) — We remain under an ABC-7 First Alert this morning as we once again wake up to below freezing temperatures. We will lean dry and calm could. This morning we are waking up to temperatures in the mid to upper 20s, below freezing, By afternoon of course temps will get a
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