UTEP Football — Doing Some Things Right (July 2020)

Health advisory: Reviewing the past three years of UTEP football may be may be harmful to your eyesight.

Old Glory vs. New Disrespect: Where Do the Miners Stand? (July 2020)

But on this is Independence Day weekend … during an election year … when every cell phone is a news camera, what does this day mean to you?

Rocky Mountain Low — UTEP Football Staying Home, Not Camping in Ruidoso (June 2020)

For the first time in more than a decade, the Miners will conduct preseason drills on campus. No point in asking why, just follow the money.

Could COVID KO Miners? (June 2020)

Like so many universities not named Notre Dame, UTEP is always hustling for funds for athletics. While numerous programs below the so-called Power Five conferences are reducing the length of post-season playoffs (Big South golf and baseball et. al.) — or cutting them entirely — I wince at the thought of cutbacks.

A UTEP Man and His Mission – The Unpredictable Ride of Football’s Derron Gatewood (August 2019)

So what we Miners forever have here is exactly what our rebuilding team needs from a veteran with 24 career starts – leadership.

No Apologies Here: Reasons Why UTEP Makes Me Proud (July 2019)

I know from personal experience that at UTEP, a kid can receive all the training, all the support, everything he/she needs to go anywhere and do anything.

Caution UTEP Miners — Tech fans carry a torch for their team (April 2019)

It’s been awhile since long-suffering UTEP basketball and football fans have had much to celebrate. Perhaps we could take a lesson from our neighbors in Lubbock.

On the Menu: Car Wash, Strong Coffee, Weak B.S. and a Mountain Lion to Go (April 2019)

That time in 2011 in which a rogue mountain lion was shot twice with tranquilizer darts, with plans to remove it to the nearby Franklin Mountains.

Fred Schwake: A Semi-Hidden Jewel (March 2019)

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure,” so the saying goes. You couldn’t tell it by Fred Schwake. He doesn’t seem to know the difference. Nor does he much care.

Tough But True — Don Haskins Treated All His Players the Same — Like Crap (February 2019)

My associations with Hall of Fame basketball coach Don Haskins consisted mostly of watching his practice sessions. At Memorial Gym on campus where the Miners practiced, I once sat with (Western Athletic Conference basketball official) Moose Stubing.