Pirates Earn ITA All-Academic Team Award; Seven Earn Scholar Athlete Honors…Jack Sides Named All-America Scholar…ECU, Inner Banks Media, IMG Partner To Extend Radio Flagship Agreement To 2022…Report: ECU assistant Mike Netti leaving for Ohio State…ECU, Vidant sign agreement to merge medical practices…After 10 addresses and three decades, Ruffin McNeill has a home in Norman …Has American conference wedged itself between Boise State and the Power Five? …Like all champions, JMU faces repeat question…Lane Kiffin ready for start of his first camp at FAU…Panthers LB Davis: CTE study ‘alarming,’ will keep playing…Jordan Reed will be kept off the field as Redskins begin training camp

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

ecupirates.com

• Pirates Earn ITA All-Academic Team Award; Seven Earn Scholar Athlete Honors
• Jack Sides Named All-America Scholar
• ECU, Inner Banks Media, IMG Partner To Extend Radio Flagship Agreement To 2022
• Summer Sessions: Jeremy Sheppard
• Baribeau Inspires ECU Student-Athletes To “Change The Narrative”

Around the American Athletic Conference

Has American conference wedged itself between Boise State and the Power Five? Idaho Statesman

theamerican.org

• One-on-One with Randy Edsall
• Rob Gray Invited to Chris Paul Elite Guard Camp

Cincinnati Enquirer

• Fickell sets brisk pace at first UC practice
• Luke Fickell’s first University of Cincinnati practice

USF Football Fan Day set for Aug. 12 Tampa Bay Times

UCF QB battle, O-line progress among top areas to watch during preseason camp Orlando Sentinel

Could SMU’s Courtland Sutton be a legitimate Heisman Trophy contender? Dallas News

Djokovic will sit out rest of 2017 because of injured elbow Hartford Courant

Bud Light becomes official beer of University of Houston Athletics Houston Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Like all champions, JMU faces repeat question Hampton Roads Daily Press

Missing Skip: Ten years later Wake remembers Prosser’s zest for life Winston Salem Journal

Raleigh News and Observer

• These Kentucky fans’ house in Durham is famous thanks to Duke’s #DriveByDunkChallenge
• RB Jahmir Smith explains why he chose Notre Dame over eight Ivy League schools

The Associated Press

• Lane Kiffin ready for start of his first camp at FAU
• Outcry grows over Virginia Tech’s plan to honor Michael Vick
• Pac-12 will test shorter halftime, reduced TV timeouts

South Carolina baseball announces complete coaching staff  Columbia The State

Charleston Post and Courier

• Sapakoff: SEC will make up ground on the ACC through the air with better 2017 quarterbacks
• Clemson to face Ohio in first round of Charleston Classic at TD Arena
• College of Charleston basketball team heading to Ireland for summer exhibition tour