{"id":104704,"date":"2025-12-30T08:13:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104704\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T08:13:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T08:13:18","slug":"duke-blue-devils-get-a-taste-of-the-borderland-ahead-of-sunbowl-match-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/104704\/","title":{"rendered":"Duke Blue Devils get a taste of the borderland ahead of Sunbowl match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Sun Bowl festivities are in full swing as the Duke Blue Devils experienced a piece of West Texas culture on Saturday with a tour of the iconic Lucchese Boot Factory.<\/p>\n<p>The team arrived in El Paso on Friday and spent part of Saturday at the factory, where they were fitted for and each given a custom pair of boots, considered to be a traditional Sun Bowl welcome gift for visiting teams.<\/p>\n<p>The Blue Devils will continue their Borderland experience with a tour of Fort Bliss on Monday as they prepare for Wednesday\u2019s Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl game.<\/p>\n<p>Their opponents, the Arizona State Sun Devils, are scheduled to receive the same Lucchese welcome with a factory tour and custom boots on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl will be held on Dec. 31, 2025, at Sun Bowl Stadium in El Paso, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets for the game are currently on sale and can be purchased online, by phone at (915) 533-4416, via email at ticket@sunbowl.org, or in person at 4150 Pinnacle St., Suite 100.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/tony-the-tiger-sun-bowl-selection-sunday-to-kick-off-this-weekend-at-sunland-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Duke and Arizona State to face off in the 92nd Tony the Tiger Sun Bowl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cbs4local.com\/signup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The Sun Bowl festivities are in full swing as the Duke Blue Devils&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-104704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-el-paso","8":"tag-el-paso","9":"tag-el-paso-headlines","10":"tag-el-paso-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}