Ecker Hill Middle School is transitioning from the Timberwolves to the Miners, but Principal Isaiah Folau hopes to retain the ...

Paydirt Pete has gone through several transformations over the years, evolving from cuddly "Sweet Pete" to a tougher Pete who kicked his smoking habit and got rid of the cigar that dangled from his ...

Although he’s so new he doesn’t yet have a name, Mackay cheerleading coach Amber Hulse said the Mackay Miners mascot got a chance to shine before the student body at a pep assembly held the ...

The TWC-New Mexico State University contest at 8 p.m. Saturday in the Sun Bowl will mark the return of the Miners’ burro mascot and TNT O’Kelly” – irascible old prospector whose identity ...

Stockmeyer’s first Miner sculptures used real pickaxes ... together to create a five-inch-tall sculpture of an owl, the mascot of Rice University. The Houston school’s academic seal, designed ...

That’s how UTEP’s athletic moniker became the Miners and its mascot a miner named Paydirt Pete carrying the school's signature pickax. UTEP stopped the mining degree program in 1964 ...

Alternate identities are a staple across Minor League Baseball. With the new identity comes a new logo, featuring a miner mascot named 'Dugg' who sports a beard, gold tooth and pick axe.

In fact, most mascot decisions in the past 40 years have been misguided. Since my own childhood in the 1970s, the San Francisco 49ers have paraded multiple uninspiring, scraggly-bearded miner ...

"So with the mascot being a miner, I thought maybe we'll see about trying to create something here in the likeness of a miner," Carter said. "I did some research and looked at different pictures ...

originally miners. The badger became the university's mascot in 1889, when the school used a live badger. The state of Wisconsin named the badger its official state animal in 1957. "The original ...

The Miners' first mascot was a student dressed up as a prospector leading a burro named Clyde to cheer on Texas Western College. The UTEP mascot got his name in a contest in 1974, said Nancy ...