MINERS GETTING PUMPED UP OVER BYU'S `RACIST' TORTILLAS

As the college football openers quickly approach Sept. 5, locker-room walls are starting to fill up with comments from opposing teams. At BYU, for instance, an article from the El Paso Times has found its way onto the bulletin board. In the article, written by Times columnist Ray Hagar, UTEP offensive linemen Jesse Villareal, Anthony Cruz and Rick Canales, all of them starters and all of them Hispanic, accuse BYU of racism and suggest that will be a motivating factor for them when the Cougars visit El Paso for the BYU-UTEP Sept. 5 opener in the Sun Bowl.