{"id":256013,"date":"2026-04-18T19:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256013\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T19:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T19:09:39","slug":"chas-messman-takes-first-in-spring-game-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/256013\/","title":{"rendered":"Chas Messman Takes First in Spring Game Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 Fans at the 2026 UTEP Football Spring Game got an unexpected halftime show at Sun Bowl Stadium when sports directors from El Paso\u2019s local TV stations took the field for a race.<\/p>\n<p>KFOX\/KDBC sports director Chas Messman won the friendly competition, finishing ahead of Sammy Guzman of KTSM and Bea Martinez of KVIA.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/drivers-preparing-for-local-drag-races?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/news\/local\/drivers-preparing-for-local-drag-races?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Drivers preparing for local drag races<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The race added another layer of entertainment for the crowd, as fans watched familiar faces from local sports coverage compete in a different kind of matchup.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" 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 Fans at the 2026 UTEP Football Spring Game got an unexpected halftime show&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":{"0":"post-256013","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\/256013","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=256013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}