UTEP Athletics announced today details for their #ElPasoStrong campaign, which includes home openers for football, volleyball, soccer, and men's basketball.
Texas Tech was 12 seconds away from glory but lost to Virginia in overtim.e last night, keeping Texas Western as the only Texas school to win a National Title
The UTEP men's basketball team played Texas Tech strong for 30-minutes, but the Red Raiders rolled late to defeat the Miners 85-61 last night in Lubbock.
It took Parkland super sophomore Deion Hankins just 10 varsity games to pick up his first FBS offers, and it came locally from UTEP and Sean Kugler, and Kliff Kingsbury from Texas Tech.
A Lubbock missing person case has taken a strange turn. The family of 19-year-old Texas Tech student Gordon Fang-Wong is heading to California, where they believe he could be involved with a cult.
The UTEP Miners made an impression last weekend, if not on national television (provided America was still awake at 12:45 am MDT) then certainly on their coach.
UTEP RB Aaron Jones had 147 yards and the Miners held the ball for almost two-thirds of the game; but in the end, an explosive Texas Tech offense and solid defense left UTEP thinking about what might have been in its narrow 30-26 defeat.