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Around 11:30am UTEP AD Bob Stull released this statement in regards to UTEP Mens Basketball Coach Tim Floyd and the article that was in today's LA Times about Floyd "speaking" to USC AD Pat Hayden yesterday in Los Angeles for three hours

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Don't look know, but the UTEP Men's basketball team are starting to hit their groove. The Miners have started off C-USA play 2-0, including Saturday night's impressive 74-63 win over Marshall.

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Welcome to a special Thanksgiving week edition of Deep Dish Sports with The Iceman Brandon Cohn.

This Week's show includes a discussion about UTEP football coach Mike Price retiring, and his legacy

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Yesterday afternoon, Tim Floyd and the UTEP basketball program landed one of their best recruits ever when Isaac Hamilton chose to play for UTEP.  Hamilton who is the 5th best Shooting Guard in the nation chose UTEP over UNLV, San Diego State and UCLA.

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When I heard the news that the UTEP Men's basketball team was "Bringing Back the 80's," I could not be any happier. Some of my favorite Miner memories were from the teams of the 1980s. Who could forget names like Terry White, Virgil Kennedy, Fred Reynolds, Luster Goodwin, Juden Smith, Kent Lockhart, Dave Feitl, Wayne "Soup" Campbell, Tim Hardaway, Chris, Blocker, Greg Foster, and so many more.

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In honor of the US Olympics and What’s Up Magazine’s Best of the Best issue, I decided to write my latest column that is sure to attract controversy and debate from El Paso sports fans. So much has been made recently of this year’s US Olympic basketball team compared the 1992 Dream Team, I wanted to create my UTEP men’s basketball “dream team”.

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UTEP called a 1 p.m. press conference this afternoon to announce that the basketball team will play the University of Arizona in Tucson on Nov. 15, 2012.  The two teams will take the year off in 2013, and the Wildcats will return to El Paso in 2014

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It is hard to believe that it has been 25 years since the passing of Hernell “Jeep” Jackson. On May 2nd, 1987, the UTEP point guard was playing in a benefit basketball game at Fort Bliss.

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In today's social media age, many breaking sports stories are no longer broken by the newspapers, radio, or television. Instead, they are first mentioned on either Facebook or Twitter.

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Saturday night, the UTEP women's basketball team accomplished their season-long goals. The Miners capped off their C-USA regular season title with a comeback win over Tulane in the C-USA Tournament Championship.

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