The Prospector's current and former sports editors, Luis Gonzalez and Javier Cortez, discuss all kinds of sports dealing with El Paso, the national and international levels. Everything from college sports, like UTEP Athletics, to professional leagues...

The reigning Conference USA Freshman of the Year did not disappoint in his sophomore year. In fact, for the better part of the season he looked like the best player on the team. Just going by the first five games for the Orange & Blue, Hunter was...

If you look at Julian Washburn’s four year career at UTEP at first glance it’s hard to think of him as anything more than a decent four year player. Offensively he did not wow you and he was never part of an NCAA tournament team. But when you dig...

Cue the drum line, cue the cheers and the applause, UTEP once again has cause to celebrate. The university’s president, Dr. Diana Natalicio, announced UTEP’s Centennial Campaign results today outside the Undergraduate Learning Center in front...

On the anniversary of Cesar Chávez’s birthday in the front row at The Border FarmWorker Center sits a family dressed in bright red reminiscing about the days they worked with Cesar Chávez and commemorating his work and achievements. “Lo conocimos...

Shopping addiction, also known as compulsive buying disorder, has been an area of interest in recent years. For many, shopping is a harmless leisure activity, but it can also be an uncontrollable urge related to obsessive-compulsive disorders. Regardless...

A new proposal has hit the Texas Senate floor, which will affect undocumented students in the country, or DREAMers, and how they’ll be paying for college or university tuition. On April 6, the border security subcommittee of the Senate’s Veteran...

With the five sports that UTEP offers for men, none may offer more individual effort for the well-being of the team as golf. Among the leaders of the team, senior Roberto Ruiz has to be one of the best pillars of the team. Ruiz has been a starter since...

The UTEP softball team won one in dramatic fashion on Saturday against the University of Southern Mississippi. The Miners also lost one in not so dramatic fashion. Then, they took the final of a three game weekend set from the Golden Eagles with...

WASHINGTON – One university athletic department is the richest in the nation, while the other, a school spokesman said, is struggling to pay its light bill. The University of Texas and Vanderbilt University have little in common in the college sports...

For the second straight season the UTEP men’s basketball season has ended abruptly with mass disappointment and disgust. After the rollercoaster ride that was last season, the Miners once again took the jaded fans of El Paso through a season of short-lived...

WASHINGTON –  Spread across the floor of a room Monday evening was a hand-designed banner that read “U.S. puts the guns, Mexico puts the dead.” It implied that American-made guns contribute to the thousands of murders committed by drug cartels...