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Longtime ESPN anchor and play by play voice Mike Tirico joined us on Sportstalk yesterday to discuss the NFL and his career. Tirico is now a part of the NBC Sports team and their Sunday night football coverage. Tirico will replace Al Michaels for four games during the rest of the NFL season...

Over the years, much has been written about the 1966 NCAA Men's Basketball Championship Game between Texas Western and Kentucky. Ray Sanchez's book Basketball's Biggest Upset remains a local favorite years after it was first published while Frank Fitzpatrick's And The Walls Came Tumbling Down took a look at the social significance of the Miners' win...

Jennifer Han made it look easy. The IBF Featherweight World Champion successfully defended her title last Saturday night at the Don Haskins Center, when she scored an easy unanimous decision over mandatory challenger Liliana Martinez. For Han, the victory was six months in the making...

On Tuesday, October 18th, ESPN will premiere their latest 30 for 30 film. "Phi Slama Jama" will look back at the great Houston Cougars basketball teams from 1982-1984. Here is how ESPN described the film: They were the most popular fraternity on the campus of college basketball in the early 1980s...

Tonight, The Famous Chicken returns to El Paso as the Chihuahuas begin their eight game homestand against the Tacoma Raniers. The team come back to Southwest University Park from a 12-game road trip with a 6 1/2 game first place lead over the Las Vegas 51s...

It started out as an interview with one of his childhood baseball heroes and turned into a new book that is getting rave reviews. Author Michael Leahy joined Sportstalk today to discuss his new book. The Last Innocents: The Collision of the Turbulent Sixties and the Los Angeles Dodgers tells the story of seven players who were part of great success on the field but at the same time battled tremen

The 2016 college football season is less than three months away, and analyst Phil Steele joined Sportstalk yesterday to offer up his predictions for the upcoming campaign. One of the highlights of the conversation was that he listed UTEP 8th in most improved football teams in the country...

Handsome Ransom Jackson is full of stories. The 90-year old former big leaguer is happy to talk about playing for the Chicago Cubs in the mid 1950s when a young rookie shortstop named Ernie Banks broke into the majors. A few years later, Jackson had been traded to the Brooklyn Dodgers and was seen as the eventual replacement for Jackie Robinson...

It took just one hour for 15,000 free tickets to sell out Friday's Muhammad Ali memorial service at the KFC Yum Center in Louisville. Sadly, some of these tickets are now being resold by scalpers who are looking to make a quick buck on the freebies...

It has been 52 years since the last major sports title in Cleveland, Ohio. That could change in the next few weeks as the Cavs and Warriors meet in the NBA Finals. The series, which begins tonight in Golden State is the second consecutive NBA Finals for both teams...