EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners are in a slump, but they have two games left in the regular season to turn things around. UTEP will battle Rice Saturday in the final home game for the Miners this football season. With an overall record of 6-4, UTEP is already bowl eligible, but the Miners
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EL PASO, Texas – Brenda Fontana (career-high eight points) and Adhel Tac (career-high eight points) came off the bench to combine for 16 points and lead UTEP (3-0) to a 76-61 victory over I-10 rival NM State (2-1) on Wednesday night front of 1,088 fans. UTEP also smothered the NM State offense, forcing a season-high 28 turnovers
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP women’s basketball team (2-0) will host NM State (2-0) in the Battle of I-10 on Wednesday night. The Miners and Aggies, playing in the 92nd meeting, are set to tip off at 7 p.m. in the Haskins Center. Fans are encouraged to wear orange for Wednesday night’s “Orange Out”. The contest will be streamed on CUSA.tv, while fans
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP men’s basketball team wrapped a 50-15 run around the break on the way to blasting visiting NAIA opponent Northern New Mexico College, 88-53, at the Don Haskins Center Tuesday evening. The win improved the Miners to a start of at least 2-1 for the third straight year. Four different Miners reached
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EL PASO, Texas – New UTEP Head Men’s basketball coach Joe Golding lost his I-10 rivalry debut against a more-experienced New Mexico State team on Saturday night. But it was how Golding’s team fought in the final three minutes that showed him the early progress his program is making. “I was proud of our fight,”
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DENTON, Texas – After squandering an early lead, it looked for a moment as if UTEP would survive a second half collapse at North Texas. But it was a collapse in defensive coverage that sealed the Miners fate, when Mean Green QB Austin Aune connected with Detraveon Brown for 58 yards with 10 seconds to
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LAS CRUCES, New Mexico – Souley Boum made his 2021-22 debut after recovering from an injury to tally a game-high 23 points and Jamal Bieniemy (13 points) and Keonte Kennedy (13 points) joined him in double digits, but the UTEP men’s basketball team’s (1-1) frantic rally fell short in a narrow 77-71 setback at New Mexico
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EL PASO, Texas – Teal Battle scored 16 points and grabbed nine rebounds in her UTEP debut, while Destiny Thurman also tallied 16 and dished out four assists, leading the Miners (1-0) to an 81-47 dominating victory over Incarnate Word (0-1) in Thursday night’s season opener at the Haskins Center. Katia Gallegos added 12 points and a
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTEP Miners may no longer have a shot at winning a conference championship, but there’s still a lot to play for in the remaining 3 games of the season. UTEP has lost a big chunk of their momentum. After going 6-1 midway into the season, the Miners have lost two
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EL PASO, Texas – Jamal Bieniemy poured in 23 points (one shy of career high), including a career-high tying five 3-pointers, and UTEP played with plenty of energy in a season-opening 85-57 vanquishing of Division II Western New Mexico in front of 6,751 fans at the Don Haskins Center Tuesday evening. It marked the largest crowd in
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EL PASO, Texas — It was UTEP’s biggest football game in years which in turn saw the biggest crowd in years – 31,658 inside the Sun Bowl stadium. But with that turnout, came out of control tailgaters and the mess they left behind. David Simental, who runs one of the private parking lots on Sun
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GAME FINAL: No. 16 UTSA scored on all eight possessions of the game on the way to a 44-23 victory over UTEP in front of a Saturday night Sun Bowl crowd of 31,658, the second highest for a Conference USA game since 2010. The Miners fall to 6-3 on the season, while the Roadrunners at
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UPDATE, Nov. 5: In a unanimous 5-0 vote on Friday, the New Mexico State University Regents decided to join Conference USA for all their athletics programs. The move will take place on July 1, 2023. Then, for the first time since the old Border Conference in 1961, NMSU and UTEP will compete in the same
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EL PASO, Texas — Have you ever noticed how many Australians are punters for college football teams? Did you know that UTEPs punter Josh Sloan is Australian? Or that there’s a program in Australia specifically designed to train Australians to be punters? Come January 2022, that program titled ‘Prokick Australia’ will have sent 180 players
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP (6-2, 3-1 Conference USA), after coming off a tough loss at FAU, will face its biggest challenge yet of 2021. Undefeated and no. 16/18-ranked UTSA (8-0, 4-0 C-USA) comes to El Paso for a nationally televised game against the Miners on Saturday night in the Sun Bowl. The contest, sponsored
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AUSTIN, Texas — A naughty pet monkey has tongues wagging in Austin and the sports world. According to Sports Illustrated, the Capuchin monkey belonging to the stripper girlfriend of Texas Longhorns assistant football coach Jeff Banks bit a child on Halloween night at a haunted house set up by the girlfriend. Banks was an assistant
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BOCA RATON, Florida – UTEP came close, but in the end it was simply too little too late for the Miners. Saturday in Boca Raton, Florida, the Miners fell to the Florida Atlantic Owls by a final score of 28-25. It was UTEP’s second loss of the season and only their first loss in conference
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EL PASO, Texas – It’s all about keeping the momentum going for the UTEP Miners. Every week has been a test, and thus far the Miners have passed especially three games into their conference schedule. This week’s test will be another challenge on the road as UTEP heads to Boca Raton, FL to take on
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EL PASO, Texas – To celebrate the start of the Joe Golding era at UTEP, a “Golding Ticket” special is in place for the UTEP men’s basketball team’s home opener with Western New Mexico on Nov. 9 at 7 p.m. All seats in the Navy and Green sections will be $5 (while supplies last). Those
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EL PASO, Texas – The UTSA at UTEP football game will be nationally televised on ESPN2 with kickoff being moved to 8:15 p.m. on Nov. 6 in Sun Bowl Stadium. The contest was originally scheduled for a 2 p.m. kickoff. “We’re excited to play on ESPN2,” UTEP Head Coach Dana Dimel said. “It’s an honor to play before
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EL PASO, Texas – UTEP football did not play this weekend on a bye week. But with how things played out elsewhere on the field, they should be happier about where they stand in the Conference USA Western Division. In a major upset, 24-point underdog Rice traveled to UAB and shocked the Blazers 30-24. The
Continue Reading EL PASO, Texas — Major college football is setting into a strange period of frayed allegiances that could have dramatic implications for UTEP. The American Athletic Conference became the latest to get into realignment by adding UAB, UTSA, Rice, North Texas, Charlotte and Florida Atlantic from Conference USA, leaving UTEP among eight remaining C-USA schools.
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EL PASO, Texas – After two years away from professional football, El Paso native linebacker Alvin Jones is back in the game. Jones announced today on his Instagram that he has signed a contract with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. The twin brother of Green Bay Packers running back Aaron Jones, Alvin
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EL PASO, Texas – While the rest of the college sports landscape continues to change, UTEP is committed to its current conference. Monday, news broke that six C-USA schools would be leaving the conference to join the American Athletic Conference. Those schools are Rice, North Texas, UT-San Antonio, Florida Atlantic, Charlotte, and UAB. When that
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DALLAS, Texas – UTEP women’s basketball standout point guard Katia Gallegos has been named to the Conference USA Preseason Team while the Miners were predicted to finish third in the preseason poll, as announced by the league office Wednesday. It marks the second straight year that she was a preseason honoree. The El Pasoan Gallegos enjoyed
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EL PASO — Success comes with a cost and UTEP could be getting ready to reward the coach of its most exciting program now. After deep salary cuts, furloughs and layoffs during the pandemic, the athletic department is looking at what could be new pressure on its budget — but one the university is rooting
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TYLER, Texas – UTEP sophomore WR Jacob Cowing was named to the Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award Honorable Mention list for Player of the Week (week seven) on Tuesday. It’s his second honorable mention this season. Cowing racked up 166 yards receiving on career-high nine receptions (18.4 avg.) during the Miners’ 19-3 victory over LA Tech
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EL PASO, Texas — The UTEP Miners on Saturday night got their sixth win of the season, 19-3 over Louisiana Tech, to clinch bowl eligibility for the first time since 2014. UTEP got off to a quick start with two touchdowns on their first two possessions in the first quarter. The Miners added a safety
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EL PASO, Texas — The UTEP Miners are rolling this year, off to a 5-and-1 start and just one win away from bowl eligibility. Now, the push is on from UTEP to score a big crowd for Saturday night’s football game against Louisiana Tech. “The UTEP fanbase has been damaged and I am not talking
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EL PASO, Texas – El Paso has never forgotten Jeep Jackson, and Jackson’s family has never forgotten the love of a city. More than 30 years after Jackson’s untimely death, UTEP is honoring the beloved basketball star with an induction into the UTEP Athletics Hall of Fame. The Class of 2020 will finally be honored
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