Greg Vacek's Daily Web Roundup
Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Pirate baseball hosts GG23 Camp…ECU commit Holton Ahlers among nation’s top returnees in total offense…Pirates add cornerback commit…Memphis set to host AAC basketball tournament in 2019…Adding Wichita State helps AAC, but league needs UConn to improve…SEC must beat the ACC to counter ‘slippage’ theory…All rise as Judge smashes his way to Home Run Derby title…Almost nothing has changed with a week to go in Kirk Cousins’s negotiations…John Wall isn’t apologizing for trying to recruit Paul George

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

ecupirates.com

• “Monday Minute” Episode IV (July 10, 2017)
• Boys Of Summer Report (July 10, 2017)

Pirate baseball hosts GG23 Camp WNCT 9

ECU commit Holton Ahlers among nation’s top returnees in total offense USA Today HSS

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• NAPA Auto Parts Named as Title Sponsor of Football Media Days
• FedExForum to Host 2019 American Athletic Conference Men’s Basketball Championship
• The American on The Maxwell, Bednarik Award Watch Lists

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• FedExForum will host 2019 AAC men’s basketball tournament
• Ferguson named to Maxwell Award watch list

USF women could face South Carolina in November Tampa Bay Times

Episcopal offensive tackle chooses Temple philly.com

AAC men’s basketball tournament moved to Memphis in 2019 New Orleans Advocate

New Orleans Times Picayune

• TU Sports: RB D’Angelo Brewer on Maxwell Award watch list
• Memphis lands 2019 AAC basketball tournament; could Tulsa or OKC be next?
• TU Sports: OL Willie Wright a nominee for Allstate AFCA Good Works Team

Memphis set to host AAC basketball tournament in 2019 Dallas News

Houston Chronicle

• Arkansas highlights UH men’s basketball schedule
• UH’s Ed Oliver named to college football award watch lists

Memphis will hold 2019 American men’s basketball tournament Wichita Eagle

Adding Wichita State helps AAC, but league needs UConn to improve New Haven Register

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

SEC East, division champ Gators take stage at media days Associated Press

Charleston Post and Courier

• Sapakoff: SEC must beat the ACC to counter ‘slippage’ theory
• Around SEC Media Days: Commissioner now in charge of hurricane-related rescheduling

Columbia The State

• Criticism of Tennessee coach grows as record improves
• Arkansas coach Bret Bielema ready to deploy former Gamecock
• Dakereon Joyner trains with former Gamecocks QB
• A tale of two Lawrences and Clemson’s hopes to remain elite

Coastal Division confounds again as ACC Kickoff beckons Hampton Roads Daily Progress

Raleigh News and Observer

• The ACC football season kicks off this week. Here’s what you need to know.
• How this Triangle senior basketball team won a national title
• Duke basketball prepared to open ACC schedule in early December this season
• Duke great Thaddeus Lewis takes time to tutor school’s next rising star QB, Daniel Jones