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I used to watch KFOX morning news regularly but just could no longer tolerate Kandolite Flores, so I switched to KVIA. I really hope Kandolite will do well in her new job. Martina Valverde did a fine job at KFOX, and I also hope and trust she will do well. As for KLAQ, it has always lacked class, so I'm not surprised that management is lying about the woman wanting to leave.
UPDATED: KLAQ Morning Show co-host leaves, KFOX loses (and gains) two reporters
•KLAQ Morning Show co-host Teresa Provencio is leaving the station to focus on her family, station officials confirmed earlier this week. Provencio's last day is today. KLAQ operations manager Kevin Vargas said Provencio is leaving the station on amicable terms. Sources close to the station have...
Duke, don't quit your simple day job and avoid straying into the complex world of politics. You actually believe the big lie that a downtown stadium will generate substantial revenue? Please do some research instead of parroting hucksters wearing fancy suits. You will find that downtown stadiums do not result in substantial economic growth. Local governments end up stuck with progressively burdensome annual maintenance costs for the life of the facility. The only jobs actually produced are minimum wage, seasonal ones. No "new" money is produced; spending on sports events merely represents a diversion of monies that otherwise would have been spent at other entertainment venues.
Oh, although I don't have grey hair, I don't appreciate your unfair, inaccurate comments about the people who contribute the most to local government coffers in the form of outlandish property taxes.
Political Baseball: Crowd Lashes Out at Byrd, Ballpark
The conference room at the Nolan Richardson Rec Center was almost packed. Seeing two of El Paso's finest in uniform was a clue as to how this would go, as was the fact that there was a lot more gray hair in the audience than any other color. I should have known. El Paso's city representative...
Marcus Green stated the situation perfectly:
"You can't expect people to continue supporting losing teams when the people in charge aren't making the necessary moves to fix things. Price needs to be replaced."
Why in the hell should we keep going to UTEP football games when all we witness is poor coaching and loss after loss? What is it going to take for Stull to wake up and fire Price?
As for a winning season and a bowl appearance, that is nothing but a complete fantasy designed to give people false hope. We have been fed enough of that garbage by Stull and Price.
Can UTEP Football Keep City From Saying "El Pass-o"?
It's August, but why does it seem that getting ready for UTEP football is already a grind? From rumors that season ticket sales were under 5,000 when the university (finally) kicked off its marketing campaign to the unrest among fans about Mike Price getting an eighth season to lead the Miners, ...
PJ - That's exactly what I was thinking. The current conference alignment totally sucks in terms of killing off natural rivalries. I know it's just a dream, but a reborn Southwest Conference would be great:
Houston
UTEP
SMU
Tulsa
Tulane
New Mexico (if the Mountain West breaks up)
Air Force (same as above)
Colorado State (same as above)
Other possibilities:
NMSU (I know, a real weakling)
North Texas (a move up from the Sunbelt Conference)
UTEP trade (?) nixed
Little has been said around here on a little discussion, where little was said — late last year: Conference USA was apparently wondering if it could join forces with the Mountain West. Basically, C-USA wanted UTEP to join the present Mountain West teams in what would be the western division. Tha...
Too true. The accused dude was allegedly drunk. For all we know, he was driving fast on the shoulder of the road because he was returning from a late-night bible study class and was distracted while reaching for the good book that fell on the floor of his car. Oh, and the dude only appeared drunk because he was exhausted after volunteering all day at a local soup kitchen. The poor dude is just another misunderstood victim of society.
Dane Cook tweets about El Paso teen killed in crash
Stand-up comedian and actor Dane Cook via Twitter offered his condolences in the death of an El Paso teenager killed in traffic crash. Jonathan “Jon” Cervoni of Eastwood High School and Aaron Carrillo of Montwood High School were killed Friday night by a suspected drunk driver. The 16-year-old ...
Here's an idea:
UTEP should follow the Ivy League approach and start a league with other perennial loser football schools.
This is a dream line-up of the brand-new WEED LEAGUE:
UTEP
New Mexico State University
University of New Mexico
Autonomous University of the Heroic Ciudad Juarez
Sul Ross State University
New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
A note on the post making the bowl argument for UTEP
One of the posts below raises the point asking if a team can count a victory over an FCS school (I-AA) two consecutive years, since UTEP needed to count its victory over Arkansas-Pine Bluff. The NCAA has been forced to change that rule twice in recent years as more bowls enter the picture and th...
UTEP should join the WAC. Sure the WAC is weak, but so is UTEP. At least the football team would win at least a few more games and the basketball team would make it into the NCAA tournament as WAC champs.
New WAC - ho-li-SMOKES!
Ho-li-SMOKES! The new Western Athletic Conference makes UTEP's Conference USA look like the Big 12 now. Because of conference realignments, the WAC is trying to re-make its face with teams from real big cities, but teams that ... are more strangers than house-hold names in their own town. This...
The best think about this move is the possibility that Dr. Phil will be moved to a 2:00 a.m. time slot. He is a fraud, and anyone who actually believes his load of crap thinly disguised as wise counsel is an idiot.
KFOX early evening news now earlier
The 6 p.m. newscast for KFOX-TV Channel 14 (cable Channel 8) will move an hour earlier to the 5 p.m. slot starting on Sept. 13. The move is aimed at improving the ratings of the show, which faces stiff competition from KVIA-TV Channel 7 (cable Channel 6) and KTSM Channel 9 (cable Channel 10) ...
Kandolite Flores is totally horrible. What in the hell was KFOX management thinking when they hired this train wreck? She speaks 90 miles an hour and fails to enunciate. Did she actually graduate from UTEP with a degree in communication? Tell me it ain't so.
Lots of new faces
Media Buzz has been busy reporting lots of departures recently. Of course, that means that there are loads of new faces on local newscasts. No official notices have been sent in regarding the new hires at each of the stations featuring new faces, but it's not hard to figure out that a new batch...
Jennifer and Alonso need to get together.
That way they can become a borderline retarded douche.
Cyrus broke Fort Bliss' heart ... its achy breaky heart
This has nothing to do with local media, but it is too good not to share. This blog entry is courtesy of El Paso Times reporter Daniel Borunda: If it’s Sunday, it must be Fort Bliss FORT BLISS — Country-rock singer Billy Ray Cyrus made one of those uncomfortable rocker slips at the start of his ...
Adrienne is hawt.
Her voice is hawt.
Just thinking about her makes me hawt.
Alvarez is the REAL anchor at KDBC
I had reported in a previous post that the rumors around town were that Philip Mena had been picked as the anchor for KDBC-TV Channel 4. That's the spot left vacant by Nichole Ayoub earlier this year. The rumors were wrong, though, and the people at the station have made it official. The new ...
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