Duke Keith

Wet-N-Wild Waterworld is taking the good with the bad as it open its doors for its 41st year. Fortunately, there’s more of the former than the latter.

This week on EP Townsquare, Duke Keith speaks with UTEP AD Jim Senter about how the Miners are maneuvering through the pandemic and what sports might look like.

How well is El Paso flattening the curve? As Texas opens up, how much is El Paso joining in? What about school this fall? Helping us answer those questions is Bob Moore.

Can plasma donations from Coronavirus survivors help those most severely affected by the disease? And physical health is one thing. What about our mental health during the pandemic?

El Pasoans going through the COVID-19 crisis deserve help and insight as we focus on the Sun City and how it deals with the fallout of the novel coronavirus.

So, to Utah Jazz center and American sports’ COVID-19 Patient Zero Rudy Gobert, I would like to offer the following heartfelt sentiment. Ahem.

“Thanks, dumbass.”

But, for Tuesday’s temper or Saturday’s soreness, the irritant was the same: UTEP isn’t making shots.

Sebastián Velasquez scoring an 83rd minute game-winning penalty? A perfectly logical conclusion for Locomotive FC.

Everything before that?

Nuts.

As Roy D. Mercer asks, “Just how big an ol’ boy are you?”

BIG.

Like, 17 feet tall. That’s Manute Bol standing on top Manute Bol standing on top of Verne Troyer.

A place that would bear the scars of racism’s dumb bludgeon became a bouquet of human expression. Next to the Hooters. That's El Paso. No emotional zoning laws.

But numbers don’t change, they just hang around like the one bulb in the copy room that’s been flickering for eight years.

You come to a Miners game having slipped into your most comfortable jaundiced expectations and suddenly discover no one is wearing those anymore.