The Sun Bowl is an outdoor football stadium in the Southwestern United States, on the campus of the University of Texas at El Paso. It is home to the UTEP Miners of Conference USA, and the late December college football bowl game, the Sun Bowl. The stadium opened in 1963 and has a nominal seating capacity of 51,500, although UTEP currently lists the capacity as 46,670.
"El Paso Diablos" refers to two different professional baseball teams based in El Paso, Texas, in the United States. The most recent Diablos were a member of the South Division of the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball, which is not affiliated with Major League Baseball. From 1990 to 2013, the Diablos, in both incarnations, played their home games at Cohen Stadium. The team's name means "devils" in the Spanish language.
Orange County Blue Star was an amateur American soccer team based in Irvine, California. Founded in 1997, the team played in the USL Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Southwest Division of the Western Conference until 2012.
El Paso Patriots was an American soccer team based in El Paso, Texas, United States. Founded in 1989, the team played in the Premier Development League (PDL), the fourth tier of the American Soccer Pyramid, in the Mid South Division of the Southern Conference.
Ray Mickens is a former professional American football cornerback. Mickens entered the National Football League (NFL) after receiving All-American honors at Texas A&M University. He last played professionally for the New England Patriots. His brother Fred Williams played for the Houston Oilers. Post-NFL Ray Mickens owns M2 Concepts a privately held, minority owned food, beverage, and retailing company headquartered in Dallas/Ft. Worth area.
Mobi Patrick Oparaku is a Nigerian former professional footballer who played as a defender.
The 1998 U.S. Open Cup ran from June through October, 1998, open to all soccer teams in the United States.
The 2005 PDL season was the 11th USL Premier Development League season. The season began in April and ended in August.
Tayt Ianni is a former U.S. soccer defender.
Eddie Soto is a former American soccer player who played as a forward. Soto spent five seasons in the USISL and has served as an assistant men's and women's collegiate soccer coach for eight seasons.
Seth George is a retired American soccer player who spent three seasons in Major League Soccer.
Brian Kelly is an American former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. Kelly spent five seasons in Major League Soccer. He also played at both the 1991 FIFA U-17 World Championship and 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship.
Maurizio Rocha is a Bolivian retired football (soccer) midfielder who played professionally in Major League Soccer and USL A-League.
Jason Boyce is a retired professional American soccer forward who played professionally in Major League Soccer and the USL A-League. He has four children, Jayson, Melia, Grace and Samuel Boyce. He coaches youth soccer for Pateadores, Newport/Costa Mesa 04 and 03. As well as the Women's Varsity soccer coach at Costa Mesa High School.
Rivers Guthrie is a retired American soccer midfielder who played professionally in the USL A-League and Major League Soccer. He played the United States U-16 men's national soccer team at the 1989 FIFA U-16 World Championship.
Kirk Wilson is a retired American soccer player who played professionally in Major League Soccer and the USL A-League.
Jake Dancy is a retired American soccer defender who played professionally in Major League Soccer, the USL A-League and the second Major Indoor Soccer League. He also coached one season in the second MISL.
Paul "P. J." Polowski is a retired American soccer forward who played professionally in the USL A-League and the Continental Indoor Soccer League.
Humberto Salvador Mercado-Luján is a retired Mexican football midfielder who played professionally in Mexico and the United States.
Andrew Thomas Philip Fox is an English professional footballer who plays for USL Championship club Orange County SC.
