UTEP football wrapped up their first week of spring practice Friday morning as they participated in full pads for the first time since the regular season ended. Head coach Sean Kugler is looking at who he has to work with and who is going to step...

Former Miners Aaron Jones and Hayden Plinke got the call they had been waiting all off-season for as they were both selected to partake in the NFL Scouting Comine from Feb. 28-March 4 in Indianapolis, Indiana. At the Combine, players from all over...

UTEP football inked 17 new student-athletes to their roster for the 2017 season on National Signing Day, which took place Feb. 1. Out of the 17 new comers, only three of the players were rated 3-star athletes or better. However, Kugler does not care...

Head coach Sean Kugler annouced that the program signed 17 football players for National Signing Day on Wednesday, Feb. 1. The Miners grabbed seven offensive and 10 defensive football players to join their squad. The team's motive this offseason was...

Already the second time in three seasons the Miners' football team will play five home games and seven on the road for their 2017 football season. They will open up Sept. 2 at Oklahoma followed by back-to-back home games against Rice (Sept. 9) and...

Tight end Hayden Plinke and linebacker Nick Usher will participate in the 2017 NFLPA Collegiate Bowl in Carson, Calif., on Saturday, Jan. 21, on Fox Sports 1 at 2:15 p.m. MT. The two players will be introduced to different NFL scouts and the event...

UTEP junior standout running back Aaron Jones announced that he will enter the 2017 NFL draft on Saturday, Dec. 31. By doing this, Jones has decided to forfeit his final year of eligibility with the Miners to enter the draft. "First I would like to...

For the first time in program history, two Miners, offensive lineman Will Hernandez and running back Aaron Jones, earned AP All-American recognition as announced on Monday, Dec. 12. Hernandez was named to the second team and Jones received third team...

It took Sean Kugler’s Miners eight games in conference to have a true beat-down on one of their fellow league opponents. Finally, on an overcast afternoon on Saturday, Nov. 26, the Miners both rolled over North Texas 52-24 and also spoiled any hopes...

In the battle between the two teams at the bottom of the barrel in Conference USA, it was Rice who prevailed 44-24 over the Miners in a game that was over by halftime. The loss puts the Miners at a 10-game losing streak in Houston and drops them...

Among some of the top players around the country, junior standout running back Aaron Jones was selected as one of 10 semifinalists for the Doak Walker Award. He was named by the PWC SMU Athletic Forum on Wednesday, Nov. 16, and he is the only C-USA player...

Standout running back Aaron Jones rushed for 228 yards with two touchdowns and the Miners kept their bowl game hopes alive with a 42-10 victory over the FCS affiliate Houston Baptist.   It was a victory that the win-hungry Miners needed...