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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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 — 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 — The UTEP Miners defeated Stephen F. Austin 24-14 at home Saturday night in front of a crowd of 6,047, according to UTEP officials. Fans told ABC-7 they were excited to be back at the Sun Bowl for UTEP’s first live sporting event at the stadium since the outbreak of Covid-19. “It’s
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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 — Football is back in the Borderland. The UTEP Miners kick off their home opener against Stephen F. Austin on Saturday at 7 p.m. amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. Only 8,600 fans will be allowed inside the Sun Bowl Stadium, which seats up to 50,000. Fans will be asked to follow Centers for
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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 – UTEP senior running back Quardraiz Wadley was named to the eighth annual Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Watch List on Wednesday. Wadley returns to the gridiron after missing all of 2019 due to an injury. He last played during the 2018 season when he started in 10 of 12 games. The product
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EL PASO, Texas — UTEP Miner fans don’t have to worry about missing this years Minerpalooza due to the pandemic. The 30th Minerpalooza celebration will be going virtual this year. The Celebration will begin with a pre-show broadcast live at Minerpalooza.com this Friday Sept. 4 at 8 p.m. Right after the pre-show event, Miner fans
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EL PASO, Texas — A pandemic isn’t going to stop UTEP from celebrating their biggest back to school celebration. For the first time in it’s thirty year history, Minerpalooza is going virtual. “Something that started off in the parking lot on campus, now 30 years later, has grown to having 25 to 30,000 people,” said
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EL PASO, Texas – It will be a season unlike any other for the UTEP football team, but at least it’s a season of football. Saturday, the UTEP Miners kickoff the season against Stephen F. Austin at the Sun Bowl. UTEP head football coach Dana Dimel spoke with ABC-7 in a exclusive interview. ABC-7 is
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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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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 – The UTEP football team has added its final game to its 2020 schedule with a road contest on Sept. 26 at the University of Louisiana at Monroe, the Athletics Department announced Tuesday. Kickoff will be at 6 p.m. Mountain Time. It will be the first game in a two-game series with
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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 – 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
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — UTEP fans planning to attend a home football game this season will see some significant changes on game days. Thursday, UTEP officials released details about the changes they are making to their game day rules. The biggest change is that UTEP will be limiting the numbers of fans who will be
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El Paso, TEXAS – UTEP confirmed to ABC-7 that as of Wednesday, there are 8 active cases of COVID-19 among UTEP student athletes. UTEP officials say that since June 10, when COVID-19 testing began at UTEP, a total of 505 UTEP student athletes have been tested for the coronavirus. Eighteen of those test results have
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EL PASO, Texas – The “UTEP Football With Dana Dimel” Radio Show returns for the 2020 season! Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the show will not be produced on-location this year but fans can catch every minute on the Miners’ flagship radio station, 600 ESPN El Paso. Each week leading up to and during the
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EL PASO, Texas — Despite many college football conferences opting for a shortened schedule, the UTEP Miners might not be. UTEP Athletic Director Jim Senter tells ABC-7 that the Miners are in principle agreement on a 12-game schedule. “Obviously we’re going to play football games and we’ve got three other games that we’ve added to
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EL PASO, Texas – Day two of fall camp for the UTEP Miners saw the return of players at some key positions. After not participating on the first day of camp, UTEP running back Quardraiz Wadley hit the field for the first time on Monday ever since a toe injury sidelined him a season ago.
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ONLINE AUCTION LINK: https://one.bidpal.net/utepathletics/welcome EL PASO, Texas – “Orange Fever Fiesta,” UTEP Athletics’ annual fundraising event to support student-athlete scholarships, will return on Saturday, Aug. 15. Thanks to a partnership with KVIA-TV, this year’s “Orange Fever Fiesta” will be broadcast live and streamed virtually. The 2020 edition will be bigger and better than ever before.
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EL PASO, Texas – You can’t say UTEP isn’t looking hard for its next point guard. It may have found one… over 6,000 miles away in Serbia. 6-foot-5 Vuk Vulikic committed to the Miners last week bringing a European flavor to Rodney Terry’s backcourt. A member of the Serbian U-18 national team, Vulikic is known
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Not only is UTEP going forward with playing football this fall, they are also planning to allow fans at home games. On a video call with local media Thursday afternoon, UTEP Athletic Director Jim Senter confirmed that the school is fully intending on having fans at the Sun Bowl. “We are
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AUSTIN, Texas — The Big 12 conference announced Wednesday that it was moving forward with its college football season, and the University of Texas then released its revised schedule. The start of the season will take place Sept. 12 with Texas hosting UTEP. That game was originally scheduled for Sept. 19, but has now been moved up
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EL PASO, Texas — The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl is in danger of not being played this year, but there is some light at the end of the tunnel. On Tuesday, the PAC-12 decided to postpone all fall sports, including football, to the spring of 2021. That decision impacts the Tony the Tiger Sun
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EL PASO, Texas — Prominent El Paso real estate developer, businessman and billionaire Paul Foster and his wife are making a major donation to finish the ongoing renovation of Sun Bowl stadium. UTEP officials on Monday afternoon announced the $5.1 million gift that they said “ensures the completion” of the $16.25 million modernization project. The renovation
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — UTEP athletic officials said Sunday that football practices were postponed indefinitely after four players tested positive for the coronavirus. The decision was disappointing for Miners head football coach Dana Dimel, who said he and the team had been anxious to get ready for what appeared to be a shortened season with
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