A Texas Team Loads Up on All-American Talent, With No Americans

Most of the students who attend the University of Texas here don't have to travel far to enroll. More than 80 percent come from El Paso County.

But at the university's Kidd Field — where the brick-red track is surrounded by an expanse of rocky brown mountains — you won't find any El Paso natives on the men's cross-country team. In fact, you won't find a cross-country runner from anywhere in North America.

It's been that way for the past couple of years,

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