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The man, the myth, the legend

Miners head coach Tim Floyd talked about UTEP's 56-54 loss to the No. 252 Memphis Tigers for awhile, then offered a brief statement on the LA Times story in which he stated he talked with USC athletic director Pat Haden about the Trojans' head coaching job.

From the giant Kung Fu Panda with a broom to highlighting the struggles of "Mig'ur Cablela", the Taiwanese animators at NMA World Edition show us how San Francisco swept Detroit out of the World Series, complete with a scene of the Panda taking a chainsaw to a tiger's head! You can't make this stuff up. Or, well, actually...

It was one of the biggest UTEP basketball upsets in recent memory. The UTEP Miners beat the Memphis Tigers, 60-58, last Saturday, and did it in Memphis -- the team's first road win this season. This video is from longtime UTEP fan, MinersWon.

(UTEP & Memphis post-game interview video below) By Duke Keith: dkeith@klaq.com, twitter.com/dukekeith Now you see it, now you don't. An opportunity for the UTEP Miners to not sweat Selection Sunday escaped them like a 12-point second half lead. Like a missed free throw. Like a long rebound. UTEP let the Tigers run; and slowly, surely, those Tigers kept nibbling away at the Conference USA tou

UTEP head coach Tim Floyd was fired up about the lack of respect for Conference USA after the Miners 66-54 C-USA Tournament semifinal win over the Tulsa Golden Hurricane, saying he thought it was "ridiculous that we have to win a 26th game" to get into the NCAA tournament for a second straight season...