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Greg Vacek's Daily Web RoundupFriday, April 20, 2018

April 20, 2018 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

Jake Washer Named To 2018 Bench Award Watch List…No. 11 ECU Returns To AAC Play At Memphis…Softball Kicks Off Final Homestand Hosting AAC Leader USF…ECU tennis dominates in first round…Track And Field Wraps Up Outdoor Regular Season at Duke And Virginia…Virginia 2019 CB Taylor Harris commits to ECU…Siegal High Shooting Guard James Franklin Picks Up ECU Offer…WSU baseball eying move up AAC standings with weekend series vs. Houston…Wake Forest reinstates three suspended baseball players…Redskins’ 2018 schedule: Thanksgiving at Dallas, Monday night games vs. Eagles, Saints highlight slate

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

Bonesville.net

  • View from the East on Football
    Results needed from defensive hires
  • View from the East on Baseball
    Godwin involved on both ends of streak

ecupirates.com

  • Jake Washer Named To 2018 Bench Award Watch List
  • No. 11 ECU Returns To AAC Play At Memphis
  • Gameday: Softball Kicks Off Final Homestand Hosting AAC Leader USF
  • Track And Field Wraps Up Outdoor Regular Season at Duke And Virginia
  • Pirates Advance With Win Over UConn

Greenville Daily Reflector

  • ECU tennis dominates in first round
  • AAC boost helps ECU’s negative budget

ECU’s Washer named to Bench Award Watch List WITN 7

Virginia 2019 CB Taylor Harris commits to ECU 247 Sports

Siegal High Shooting Guard James Franklin Picks Up ECU Offer Rivals.com

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

  • ECU, Temple Move On To Men’s Tennis Quarterfinals
  • UCF, SMU, Tulsa, Wichita State Reach Women’s Semifinals
  • Houston’s Elijah Hall Named to The Outdoor Bowerman Watch List
  • Copperhead Course to Test Golfers at American Men’s Golf Championship

Report: Bearcats to visit Canada Cincinnati Enquirer

Bay area has ‘hit show’ again, thanks to USF Tampa Bay Times

New UCF quarterbacks coach Jeff Lebby confident Knights will have a great offense in 2018 Orlando Sentinel

Memphis Commercial Appeal

  • Calkins: Penny Hardaway has confidence to aim high
  • Hardaway discusses new recruits, staff
  • Penny Hardaway Press Conference

UH football considering holding a spring practice out of town Houston Chronicle

Wichita Eagle

  • WSU baseball eying move up AAC standings with weekend series vs. Houston
  • Marshall’s final pitch to Jamarius Burton: WSU is reloading, not rebuilding
  • Meet the recruit who made Gregg Marshall fly his private jet to Florida to offer him
  • Wichita State softball builds its case for an at-large berth with strong RPI

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

  • Why NC State fans are unhappy with the closing of two popular tailgate lots
  • Wondering why NC State baseball is so good this season? Here are some reasons.
  • After a childhood in segregated Birmingham, Duke’s Cutcliffe learned to find magic in people
  • With Cam Johnson confirmed to return, UNC is shaping up for next season

Winston Salem Journal

  • Wake Forest reinstates three suspended baseball players
  • Deacons trying to build on comeback momentum

That new NCAA kickoff rule opening to not-so-rave reviews, but it won’t matter Norfolk Virginian Pilot

U.Va.’s Thompson inexperienced but admirably self-aware Hampton Roads Daily Press

Columbia The State

  • Midway through SEC schedule, what’s gone right — and wrong — for USC baseball
  • How to watch South Carolina try to reset itself against LSU
  • Travaris Robinson: ‘I really do’ believe this could be the year for Gamecocks
  • Why South Carolina’s staff has to keep tabs on eighth- and ninth-grade recruits
  • Mason Rudolph had an eye on USC. Then he really, really wanted to play the Gamecocks

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

Charlotte Observer

  • 5 things, including the toughest stretches, about the Carolina Panthers’ schedule
  • This safety fits the Panthers’ needs. But landing him in the draft may be tough.
  • Should Hornets waive Nic Batum? Is blowing up roster the answer? Here’s what I think
  • Why American soccer star Christian Pulisic is ‘definitely excited’ for game in Charlotte
  • George Diaz: Jaguars roll out upgrades with look of winners
  • Jeff Schultz: Hawks, Budenholzer both could be making mistakes if they split
  • With new arena near, Bucks seek elusive playoff series win
  • Chris Vognar: Is basketball America’s game?
  • Once long shot, expansion Vegas now best bet in NHL playoffs
  • Players claimed off NHL waivers making most of 2nd chances
  • What gets a manager fired? One really bad stretch

Washington Post

  • Redskins’ 2018 schedule: Thanksgiving at Dallas, Monday night games vs. Eagles, Saints highlight slate
  • Patriots have easiest schedule. Seriously.
  • Capitals-Blue Jackets series tied: Ovechkin proves prediction correct with help from Holtby, Oshie
  • Wilson helped Caps dig a hole, but now he’s lifting them out of it
  • A brief history of Alex Ovechkin guaranteeing things
  • Caps player in viral ‘puck girl’ vid wonders, ‘Whatever happened to ladies first?’
  • Dave Martinez is calmly steering Nationals through choppy early-season waters
  • NBA playoffs: Pelicans crush Trail Blazers to take 3-0 series lead; Embiid has plenty to say after 76ers win

Hurricanes still waiting on decision from coach Bill Peters. Could Calgary hire him?Raleigh News and Observer

For Denny Hamlin, NASCAR stops at Richmond short track always feel like home Norfolk Virginian Pilot

New York Times

  • Down on the Farm, an Infield of Scions
  • For Lance Armstrong, Backing Down Might Have Hurt More Than Paying $5 Million
  • Inside the Deadlock Over Russia’s Track and Field Athletes
  • Arsène Wenger, Arsenal Manager, to Leave at End of Season
  • Gregg Popovich Is Absent for Game 3 After Wife’s Death
  • Giancarlo Stanton Is Bumped Down, and Yankees Edge Blue Jays

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