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Joseph Anderson caught a 14-yard touchdown pass from Arvell Nelson with 39 seconds left Saturday to give Texas Southern a 30-25 victory over Southern University.

Where was that all year? In the last game of the season -- a week when the UTEP football team historically almost never wins -- without a healthy Donald Buckram, the Miners bombed a good Marshall squad straight into the Sun Bowl turf, 52-21. The temptation would be to say Trevor Vittatoe recovered his 2008 form, but this was more like Colt McCoy ...

Jeff Moturi closed the book on his great UTEP career with his best receiving day as a Miner, catching seven passes for 179 yards Saturday against Marshall.

How do you wrap your arms around joy and frustration -- all at the same time? UTEP finished a football season Saturday afternoon.

Trevor Vittatoe passed for 517 yards and five touchdowns as UTEP routed Marshall 52-21 on Saturday.

UTEP is 3-8 heading into its final game of the season. When the Miners' players, especially the seniors, take a glimpse at the football team's schedule, they can't fathom how they got to this point.

On the surface, it looks rather odd - 6-5 Marshall is a one-point underdog against 3-8 Texas-El Paso.

If there's one certainty in this era of UTEP's football, it's that there are always new ways for the Miners to lose.

Though Donald Buckram won't fondly remember Saturday's loss to Rice, he did set a number of milestones in his 147-yard day, most notably breaking the school single-season rushing record of 1,546 yards by Fred Wendt in 1948.

The feeling was similar, but UTEP's 35-31 last-second loss to SMU on Saturday wasn't areplay of last week's last-second overtime loss to Tulane.

On Saturday the 14th, a UTEP football team that had resurrected itself more times than a horror-movie villain finally took a fatal bullet.

Kyle Padron threw two touchdown passes and scored twice on the ground to lead his SMU Mustangs to a 35-31 victory over the Texas-El Paso Miners in a Conference USA clash.

There will be at least one big showdown to watch Saturday in Dallas. SMU's Emmanuel Sanders has 30 receiving touchdowns for his career, making him the national leader among active players.

The feats of Donald Buckram could fill an entire notebook, so here are a few more tidbits.

This is a special game for right tackle Alex Solot, who is the youngest of three generations of college football players.

UTEP got some terrible news on theinjury front, as freshmanreturn sensation MarlonMcClure was lost for the year after separating his shoulder.

After each close loss this year, UTEP coach Mike Price has lamented several plays that got away.

Jury selection in Judge Manny Barraza's case is scheduled to begin at 1 p.m., today.

The good news for the UTEP football team is that there's so much bad news. After all, they seem to like it better that way.

Mexican officials are investigating the murders of a federal intelligence official and two agents who were abducted near Villa Ahumada and whose bodies were found two weeks later.