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Greg Vacek's Daily Web RoundupMonday, October 16, 2017

October 16, 2017 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

BYU opens as favorite over ECU…Cougars’ ‘backs against the wall’ as they try to avoid losing season…Volleyball Extends Winning Streak To Five With 3-1 Victory Over Houston…ECU Blanks Tulsa 1-0 in Final Home Match…Lebo And Tyson To Attend American Basketball Media Day…AP Top 25: Penn State up to 2 behind unanimous No. 1 Alabama…For the victorious Redskins, burn the game film, and move on…Stop me if you’ve heard this one: The Falcons just blew a big lead…Aaron Rodgers could be out for the season, a sobering possibility for the Packers…Dodgers’ Justin Turner Delivers a Walk-Off Homer to Topple Cubs

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

Insights from Brett: Decision time closing in for Montgomery, Compher Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

  • Volleyball Extends Winning Streak To Five With 3-1 Victory Over Houston
  • ECU Blanks Tulsa 1-0 in Final Home Match
  • Lebo And Tyson To Attend American Basketball Media Day
  • Men’s Tennis Completes Weekend at ITA Carolina Regional
  • Pirates Conclude Fall With 10th Place Finish

Greenville Daily Reflector

  • SUMMERS: Pirates frayed at the seams
  • ECU volleyball wins fifth straight
  • Turner’s time to lead infield

Pirates earn fifth straight victory WNCT 9

ECU Volleyball Extends Winning Streak To Five With 3-1 Victory Over Houston WITN 7

East Carolina drops third straight conference game The East Carolinian

247 Sports

  • BYU opens as favorite over ECU
  • PFF College rates nation’s top 25 WRs through Week 7

Deseret News

  • Cougars’ ‘backs against the wall’ as they try to avoid losing season
  • BYU football schedule: A look ahead and behind
  • Dick Harmon: BYU could use more like Fred Warner in this season of futility

Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Justin Hardy cuts upfield for 22-yards to get into field goal position YAHOO Sports

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

  • Women’s Soccer: Week 9 Sunday Recap
  • Cross Country completes final regular season races over the weekend
  • Power Plays: Week 7

Three things we learned from UCF’s win over East Carolina Orlando Sentinel

UC takeaways: Fickell insists on progress in 33-3 USF loss Cincinnati Enquirer

Houston Chronicle

  • UH’s Major Applewhite never considered benching Kyle Postma
  • Early look at UH’s next opponent: Memphis

Niumatalolo disappointed with Navy performance in crucial conference contest Annapolis Capital

TU football analysis: In stunning turnaround from Tulane loss, Hurricane topples Houston Tulsa World

Tulane picks up pieces after surprising loss at FIU New Orleans Advocate

UConn Back In Win Column, Back To Work Hartford Courant

Temple gets upset at home by UConn, Top 10 and Fraud Five Philly.com

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

The Associated Press

  • AP Top 25: Penn State up to 2 behind unanimous No. 1 Alabama
  • AP Top 25 Heat Check: Georgia gives SEC the power its lacked
  • Gamecocks RB Dowdle to have surgery on fractured bone
  • South Carolina’s Muschamp wants SEC to review final moments
  • Leon Jacobs finally has a home at OLB for No. 5 Wisconsin
  • STAT WATCH: Marshall punter’s 92-yarder longest since 1972
  • Nebraska picks Washington State AD to head athletics program
  • Defense holds up for No. 7 Wisconsin in 17-9 win over Purdue
  • No. 8 Miami keeps facing adversity, keeps winning

Locked-in NC State clears Pitt trap, reaches No. 16 in AP poll Raleigh News and Observer

Charlotte Observer

  • Five takeaways: Amid the gloom of Charlotte 49ers blowout loss, a bright spot emerges 
  • Muschamp wants late clock question reviewed by SEC
  • South Carolina’s former starters might not be future starters
  • Louisville athletic board expected to vote on firing Pitino

Charleston Post and Courier

  • New AP poll released, Clemson and two other top 10 teams all dip after losses
  • Fake punt gone wrong: Clemson coaches explain what happened on failed Will Spiers-Tanner Muse play
  • Report Card: South Carolina-Tennessee

A&T, despite being ‘pretty bad,’ improves to 7-0 Greensboro News-Record

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

Washington Post

  • For the victorious Redskins, burn the game film, and move on
  • Redskins survive late push from 49ers to win, 26-24
  • Redskins secondary gets banged up, but doesn’t break
  • When the Redskins could have hit the gas, they shifted instead to cruise control
  • Trent Williams didn’t feel like himself, but it was more than enough for the Redskins
  • Redskins’ ‘Flight Marshals’ celebrate game-ending interception with a pat-down search
  • NFL Week 6: Aaron Rodgers could miss season with broken collarbone; Packers, Falcons, Chiefs lose
  • Is Kyrie Irving just a sidekick? Is DeMarcus Cousins not a winner? Five players with labels to shed.
  • The NFL doesn’t know what a catch is and now seems confused about fumbles, too
  • Aaron Rodgers could be out for the season, a sobering possibility for the Packers
  • The ‘Ryan Fitzpatrick curse’ claims Jameis Winston as its latest victim
  • Al Michaels apologizes for Harvey Weinstein joke on ‘Sunday Night Football’
  • Colin Kaepernick files grievance accusing NFL teams of colluding against him
  • Adrian Peterson stars in Cardinals debut: ‘The opportunity I’ve been waiting for’
  • Justin Turner overdrive: Third baseman lifts Dodgers to walk-off win, 2-0 NLCS lead
  • Former White Sox pitcher Daniel Webb dies in ATV accident

New York Times

  • Dodgers’ Justin Turner Delivers a Walk-Off Homer to Topple Cubs
  • How the Astros Went From Nowhere to the Brink of the World Series
  • Here’s What Happened in N.F.L. Week 6
  • Jets, Outperforming Expectations, Are Outdone by the Patriots

Hartford Courant

  • Jeff Jacobs: Controversy Always Seems To Favor Patriots
  • Manning, Pierre-Paul And Rest Of Giants Stun Broncos

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: The Falcons just blew a big lead myajc.com

Charlotte Observer

  • Confusion on whether Panthers LB Luke Kuechly sustained concussion vs. Eagles
  • Sunday was Dale Earnhardt Jr. Day. Here’s why he’ll likely always remember it fondly.
  • NASCAR Cup Series | Results & 3 takeaways from Sunday’s Alabama 500 race at Talladega
  • If Charlotte Hornets’ Michael Kidd-Gilchrist can’t play in opener, then who?

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