basketball

Big men, perimeter shooters, solid guards and athleticism. You'll pardon UTEP head men's basketball coach Tim Floyd if he seems cautiously optimistic for his 2012-13 Miners. El Paso gets its first look Saturday night for free at the Haskins Center for the Orange & White scrimmage.

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Back in the 80's, I used to love to see the NBA slam dunk competition, especially when 5'7" Spud Webb would compete in them.  Check out this video of 5'5" Porter Maberry performing and Eastbay dunk.  Thats a dunk in which a player catches the basketball, puts it in between his legs and dunks it..

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Alcohol, like gambling, is one of those taboo subjects in our culture that almost everyone participates in, but no one wants to have an honest discussion about.

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It would be nearly impossible to determine when the first 'flop' occured in the annals of NBA history, but it became a horrible epidemic after the European invasion of the '80s and '90s.

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Texas Tech University announced today that head basketball coach Billy Gillispie has resigned.

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When it comes to sports we love to hate lists. They help us quantify and qualify a vast amount of data and opinion. They also come under much scrutiny because they tend to be subjective.

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By the time you're stuffing you're face with a second or third plate of Thanksgiving dinner, the Miners will be taking on the Oklahoma Sooners in Orlando. UTEP and Oklahoma tip of at 5 pm on ESPN2.

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New Yorkers everywhere are bummed that Jeremy Lin is taking is talents to Houston. Fans expressed their displeasure in many ways. Some took to internet message boards, some called into talk radio, and I'm sure some protested in the streets.

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Eat your hearts out, balloon animal-makers. Meet Joel Zae, a man who truly deserves to be called a balloon sculptor, and watch this time-lapse video of him making his masterpiece -- a nearly full-size LeBron James made entirely of balloons. Puts your puny weiner dog to shame, doesn't it, Fluffy the Clown?

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To say the Oklahoma City Thunder have a passionate fan base would be a massive understatement, and there was bound to be a musician or two in the mix. Count Chris and his gang among that group. Everyone's doing a "Call Me Maybe" lip-sync these days, but Chris and Co. took the next step -- a full-on parody of the song honoring OKC's star player, Kevin Durant.

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