A victory against the Red Raiders will earn the Blue & Gray a likely matchup against host school UTEP (5-2) in Wednesday's final. In the first pairing, Georgetown faces Colgate (5-6) on Tuesday at 11:00 pm EST. > Men's Basketball: The Hoyas (6-2) head to El Paso to play in the Sun Bowl Basketball Tournament. My picks for most interesting contests this coming holiday week: My favorite gift this time of year: the days are now officially getting longer! Is there a message here? Maybe when the banks run out of money, we can always turn to the people that really care.
Last year was the first year of the Vitalis Sun Bowl, marking the seventh name change in the 72-year history of the game: Sun Bowl (1935-85), John Hancock Sun Bowl (1986-89), John Hancock Bowl (1990-93), Sun Bowl (1994-95), Norwest Sun Bowl (1996-98), Wells Fargo Sun Bowl (1999-03), and Vitalis Sun Bowl (2004-present). It has become El Paso's number one national attraction. I suppose the local chapter of PETA had not yet set up shop in the area.Īccording its website, the Sun Bowl was first played on January 1, 1935, as a fund-raising event for a local service club, to benefit underprivileged children and to finance improvement to the El Paso High School Stadium. Sure enough, when the greyhounds broke from the starting gate, there were monkeys strapped as jockeys to the backs of the dogs. As I walked underneath the grandstands, I saw small animals in cages and could hear the sound of monkey chatter and shrieking. One day, we ( rule one: travel in a group) decided to hit the Juarez dog track, which by comparison to other facilities in the region, was quite a substantial operation. My Army buds and I would venture across the Rio Grande on occasion to Juarez, Mexico where you could find just about any kind of trouble, whether you were looking for it or not. In the early 1970's, I spent a few months in El Paso while stationed with the military at Ft. Pre-game reports can be found at GUHoyas and HoyaSaxa. Hoya mentor JTIII was an assistant under then-first year coach Bill Carmody when Princeton defeated UTEP to win the Sun Bowl hoop tourney in 1996. Nonetheless, if both teams reach the finals (and they should), it ought to be a very competitive game.
The Miners sport a 68-20 record in Sun Bowl games over the previous 44 years. UTEP has won the four-team competition (held in its own facility) 26 times. The Hoyas will play for the first time ever in the 45th annual Sun Bowl Basketball tourney - now known as the State Farm Insurance Sun Bowl Basketball tournament. Head men's B-ball coach John Thompson IIIīasketball is another story however. The Hoyas however still remain in the Sun Bowl football record books with the dubious distinction, together with its opponent UTEP, of the most combined penalties ever in a Sun Bowl game (18). One year later, the Hoyas lost their intercollegiate football program in a cost-cutting move by the University. The Hoyas went on to lose that Janubowl game to UTEP (then known as Texas Western College).
Fifty-six years ago (before I was born), athletes from the Hilltop arrived in El Paso for a Sun Bowl contest that many hoped would restore some of the luster to Georgetown's athletic fortunes. DecemNow that it's too late, I wish I had gone west this week.
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