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They've just started production for college football's playoff blockbuster, but the sneak previews are already out. And this flick is scary...y'all. Roll it! "In a world of plenty, they wanted more. For them, it was a passage to unimagined treasure...

A cold wind blows across a porch in Couer d'Alene, ID. The tall pines in the snowy mountains above stand vigil in dress whites sharp enough to put a Navy man to shame. But there is no light inside the house, no fire in its hearth. It sits empty, its owner still enamored of a warm desert breeze near another international border, still friends with the man who would fire him, still positive about th

Mike Price is under fire now more than he's ever been in the nine seasons he's coached at UTEP. With the Miners on the brink of a seventh consecutive losing season the hard questions were inevitable, and a few were asked at Price's Monday press conference. Is this Mike Price's last stand?

Time to take on the New York Jets quarterback controversy (which, of course, started at the exact moment the Jets picked up Tebow in the off-season) and the Texas Rangers collapse at the end of the regular season. Team president Nolan Ryan can't be pleased.

The game notes always came in longhand, all written with a blue ballpoint pen. Stats, coaching records, last five games of the series -- transcribed onto wide-rule notebook paper, complete with Steve Hill's thoughts about the high school football game they described...

You could tell this loss stung Mike Price just by looking.

The conference room at the Nolan Richardson Rec Center was almost packed. Seeing two of El Paso's finest in uniform was a clue as to how this would go, as was the fact that there was a lot more gray hair in the audience than any other color...

The UTEP Miners have begun their sojourn to Camp Socorro, most likely for the final time under Mike Price, who's contract to coach the Miners ends with the final whistle of 2012.

When I heard that the NCAA had empowered president Mark Emmert to blow Penn State out of the water, I reiterated my thoughts that any penalty coming from the governing body of college sports would be like throwing a match into a raging forest fire...