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¡Puro desmadre! This downtown arena business is getting downright nuts! Actually, it has always been nuts. El Paso has gone round-and-round on a new arena forever. How big should it be? How will we pay for it? Where should we build it ...

Where does all that money go?

To sum up Army's 66-14 blowout, the Black Knights did whatever they wanted and got most of the applause in UTEP's house on a memorable Saturday the Miners will want to forget. It was a beautiful afternoon for a football game. Nearly 38,000 were in the Sun Bowl to watch the West Pointers and UTEP on a day that was all about honoring El Paso's many veterans, Fort Bliss and the US Army, complete with

Don't kid yourself. UTEP and Tim Floyd were waiting for Steve Kaplowitz to ask a question. Just one question. When he did, Floyd took things straight to DefCon 1. It was an ambush. And it's a disgrace. The Miners' athletic department called a press conference Tuesday afternoon, ostensibly to talk about the new men's basketball signings and the four Miners who have decided to leave the program... R

The loss was like the wind that swirled around the Sun Bowl Saturday. It cut and stung and numbed. UTEP deserved to beat Conference USA West Division-leading LA Tech, but the game can be as cold as November's empty aluminum bleachers. In a game rife with statistics, there are none that measure worthiness and only one that ever really counts...

UTEP head coach and rasslin' doppelganger Sean Kugler got as close to WWE Smackdown mode as we've seen him this season. Voice rising, jaw jutting, eyes blazing. And it was fun.

Clutch when it counted, the UTEP Miners shut down a pesky Florida Atlantic team and won a game it should win Saturday night in the Sun Bowl, 27-17. Maybe more importantly, the Miners finally found answers to some hard questions. Can Mack Leftwich throw the football...

I was listening in on my neighbor, Fred, as he was making a phone call in his back yard yesterday. Not listening by choice, mind you. At least not at first. Fred's voice was drowning out my weed-whacker. "Hallo, is this the Orange County Rehab Center...

Before UTSA's first-ever Conference USA game against UTEP in the Sun Bowl two years ago, the former KVIA-TV sports director had been talking with Roadrunners' officials about what I had thought would be -- should be -- a burgeoning rivalry between the two UT System schools. Wildman said the UTSA staffers were very clear about their feelings on the schools becoming I-10 rivals, and those feelings were: meh.

Time spoils magic. The miraculous becomes illusion. The big moments get cut down to size. Give us hindsight; we’ll pick anything apart and, inevitably, discover the holes. It’s human nature. But what if we already knew where the holes were and something special still happened...