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Football players key for Hidalgo boys soccer team
HIDALGO — Andres Hernandez, Julio Ramos and Ken Hosanna had never played soccer at any level before they got to Hidalgo High. Even then, they were football players first. → Read More
UTRGV introduces new men's basketball coach Lew Hill
Incoming UTRGV men's basketball coach Lew Hill was officially introduced during a news conference Wednesday afternoon on the UTRGV campus. → Read More
Hill enters UTRGV looking to follow Kruger model for success
EDINBURG — Lew Hill was helping Oklahoma through a practice in advance of the NCAA Tournament when head coach Lon Kruger approached him about the men’s basketball coach opening at UTRGV. → Read More
REPORTS: UTRGV to hire Lew Hill as next men's basketball coach
Multiple outlets are reporting that Oklahoma assistant Lew Hill has been tabbed as the next head coach of the UTRGV men’s basketball program. → Read More
UTRGV to hire Lew Hill as next men's basketball coach
Oklahoma assistant Lew Hill has been tabbed as the next head coach of the UTRGV men’s basketball program, the athletics department announced Thursday. → Read More
Road-weary UTRGV blasted by TCU in opening round of WNIT
When the UTRGV women’s basketball team took the court Thursday, coach Larry Tidwell saw a group that was tired and run down. → Read More
UTRGV reassigns men's basketball coach Dan Hipsher
UTRGV has reassigned head men's basketball coach Dan Hipsher after three seasons, the athletics department announced Monday. Hipsher was 27-66 overall and 13-31 in the WAC during his three years with the program. → Read More
UTRGV women's basketball loses WAC final, comes up short of NCAA Tournament
For the second consecutive season, the UTRGV women’s basketball team came up one game shy of a WAC title and a berth in the NCAA Tournament. → Read More
UTRGV women's basketball outlasts Bakersfield in double overtime to reach WAC Tournament finals
As time was ticking away in double overtime and potentially UTRGV’s season, the Vaqueros couldn’t get a shot to fall. Layup after jumper after layup, UTRGV kept pulling in offensive boards but not finding the bottom of the net. → Read More
UTRGV women's basketball survives WAC tournament scare vs. Chicago State
UTRGV’s Rickell Preston was talking to herself at halftime, trying to figure out how the Vaqueros had fallen behind in their biggest game of the season. → Read More
New Mexico State hands UTRGV men's basketball worst home loss since 1958
EDINBURG — UTRGV assistant coach Jai Steadman said Saturday started as a great day. The Vaqueros were celebrating senior night and had a chance to finish as high as the No. 5 seed in the WAC Tournament after winning two of their past three games. → Read More
UTRGV women's basketball looking to 'Jam the gym for Juliette'
EDINBURG — When UTRGV women’s basketball coach Larry Tidwell flipped on the news last June, he saw the same story playing on every channel. Juliette Castellanos, a 16-year-old Edcouch-Elsa High School cheerleader and powerlifter, had suffered a pair of broken legs when she was pinned between two cars during a hit-and-run in Weslaco. → Read More
Ribera reflects on family during UTRGV Hall of Fame induction
EDINBURG — Mario Ribera’s mother didn’t get to see him graduate high school. She didn’t get to see him light up the scoreboard with UTPA soccer from 1992-94, and she didn’t get to see him earn his degree. → Read More
UTRGV men's basketball falls flat in loss to Bakersfield
EDINBURG — Early in the second half of Saturday’s game, UTRGV held a four-point lead on one of the WAC’s top teams, looking poised to send the homecoming crowd home happy. → Read More
Elmore steps up late as UTRGV men's basketball downs Seattle
EDINBURG — With UTRGV’s offense in a rut and its lead slipping away during the second half, coach Dan Hipsher looked to his bench for someone to step up. → Read More
UTRGV women's basketball continues slide with loss to UMKC
EDINBURG — Just more than three weeks ago, UTRGV was 5-0 in the WAC, eying a rematch with fellow unbeaten New Mexico State and a possible No. 1 seed in the WAC Tournament. Now, the Vaqueros are losers of four of their past five and have fallen into a dogfight for second place, a standing UTRGV needs to maintain in order to ensure a WNIT appearance. → Read More
Mission High alums a fixture in Super Bowl history
Mission native Bobby Ply remembers looking into the stands during Super Bowl I and seeing the 60,000 fans filling only about half of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. When Koy Detmer glanced up at the sold-out Alltel Stadium crowd 38 years later during the opening kickoff of the 2005 Super Bowl, the sea of flash bulbs was like nothing he’d ever seen. → Read More
McAllen Memorial's Speights named Parade All-America 1st teamer
McAllen Memorial senior running back Trevor Speights was named to the 2016 Parade Magazine All-America First Team, one of just three players from Texas to earn the honor. → Read More
Poor shooting the Achilles’ heel for UTRGV women
UTRGV women’s basketball coach Larry Tidwell has reviewed the film of Saturday’s loss to New Mexico State three times. Each screening ends with the same conclusion: the Vaqueros lost because they couldn’t hit shots. → Read More
McAllen Memorial's Speights Named To Parade Magazine All-America First Team
McAllen Memorial running back Trevor Speights was named to the 2016 Parade Magazine All-America First Team, one of just three players from Texas to earn the honor. → Read More