Texas El Paso Miners NCAA Football News

MONMOUTH, Ore., Feb. 4 -- Western Oregon University issued the following news release: The Western Oregon football program signed 15 players today to National Letters of Intent.

By Kevin Posival Killeen Daily Herald The University of Mary Hardin-Baylor is expected to repeat as American Southwest Conference champions for the fifth-straight year, according to Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine, Hardin-Simmons second.

This year's edition of the annual Dave Campbell's Texas Football magazine, the 50th anniversary edition, hit stores Monday around the state.

One week after Chuck Hill won $5,000 in the Georgia Lottery's Weekly WinFall drawing, his wife did even better.

A dog that ran off from its owner in Seattle's Seward Park found and ate some marijuana and got high.

A former standout at A&M Consolidated High School has been sidelined from the University of Texas-El Paso football team.

A new interim district attorney has been sworn in in Fort Worth - a month after Tarrant County DA Tim Curry died of cancer.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke says an additional $19.5 million in economic developments funds will be used as part of the ongoing recovery efforts along the Texas Gulf Coast.

Robby Felix became the second member of the 2008 UTEP football team to sign a NFL free agent contract on Tuesday, agreeing to terms with the Baltimore Ravens.

In Bruce Feldman's column on Tuesday , he lists the teams with the best shot to make the biggest jump in wins, and surprisingly, four teams from the Independents and Others make this list.

UTEP should reap the rewards of junior quarterback Trevor Vittatoe reaching his third full season as a starter.

For four years, Greg Hiett has waited his chance. The punter wasn't anything special when he arrived out of San Antonio Taft High School in 2006, though he did make the academic honor roll as a freshman.

Former Mayfield High School football player Matt Camilli hopes to land a spot as a stater on the special teams unit at Texas-El Paso.

The overriding theme of the UTEP football team's spring was the injuries. For a team that had its 2008 season wrecked in that manner, it was a reminder of how important luck is in that department.

UTEP's 2009 season is four months from kicking off, but the story line already has been written.

At times, college football is a lot of work. For the past month, players have toiled through 15 practices that typically last almost two hours, and in the fall, those practices become more frequent and longer.

Rains across Texas the past week have lessened drought's grip on the state. The U.S. Drought Monitor map released Thursday showed that every category of drought - from the worst to the least - improved since last week.

A fresh group of Louisiana firefighters are in West Texas to help battle wildfires.

UTEP has set a format for its spring game, and it's quite a bit different from last season, when the sides were determined by a draft of players.

The upshot of 5-7 is that there is plenty of room for improvement. UTEP can get better at running back, receiving depth, even on the offensive line -- and everywhere on defense.