Greg Vacek's Daily Web Roundup
Wednesday, May 23, 2018

ECU starts with a win…Weather alters American Tournament schedule again…Tulane stuns top-seeded Houston 11-6 in Conference Baseball Championship first round…Dooley still evaluating at ECU…Temple basketball team to play Davidson in Atlantic City…NFL unanimously approves Tepper’s $2.2b purchase of Panthers…‘The biggest game of our life’: Capitals brace for Game 7 vs. Lightning

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

Bonesville.net

• Baseball: AAC Championships
  ECU takes tourney opener
• Postgame Audio Feature
  Big day for Drew

ecupirates.com

• ECU To Hold Selection Show Watch Party At Mellow Mushroom
• No. 15 ECU Tops UCF In First Round Of AAC Championships

Greenville Daily Reflector

• ECU starts with a win
• Dooley still evaluating at ECU

UCF baseball drops AAC Tournament opener against East Carolina Orlando Sentinel

The East Carolinian

• ECU defeats UCF in conference opener
• ECU to take on Tulane next in AAC tournament

WNCT 9

• Henrickson leads ECU to win over UCF to open 2018 American Baseball Tournament
• Weather alters American Tournament schedule again

WITN 7

• ECU tops UCF in AAC Baseball Tournament opener
• Schedule adjusted for 2018 American Conference Baseball Championship

ECU takes conference tournament opener from UCF 247 Sports

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

• Henrickson powers ECU past UCF 8-4 in conference championship opener
• Tulane stuns top-seeded Houston 11-6 in Conference Baseball Championship first round
• Schedule Changes For American Athletic Conference Baseball Championship
• AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ANNUAL SPRING MEETING TO BE HELD MAY 30-31 IN DALLAS, TEXAS

New Orleans Advocate

• Witherspoon focused on winning AAC tourney
• Tulane extends football coach Willie Fritz’s contract through 2023

New Orleans Times Picayune

• Tulane routs top-seed Houston in conference baseball tournament opener
• Tulane extends contract for football coach Willie Fritz through 2023

Cincinnati Enquirer

• UC: Athlon honors 8, but predicts losing record
• UC baseball seeded No. 6 in stacked AAC tourney

Christian Vital Returning For ‘Unfinished Business’ At UConn Hartford Courant

Temple basketball team to play Davidson in Atlantic City Philly.com

 

 

TU Sports: TE Cole Neph put on scholarship Tulsa World

 

WSU baseball’s NCAA fate clear entering tournament: ‘Win in Clearwater or go home’ Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

• The ACC wants to expand the NCAA tournament by four teams. Why not add 28 teams?
• What this top basketball recruit had to say about the FBI’s investigation involving NC State

Winston Salem Journal

• Top-ranked Deacons’ men’s tennis team wins national championship
• Deacons head into do-or-die ACC Tournament

U.Va. faces do-or-die situation for NCAA hopes in ACC baseball tournament Hampton Roads Daily Press

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Virginia Tech fires softball coach after 23 seasons
• Banned from competing for her home country, top runner finds a new home at Norfolk State

Columbia The State

• USC rallies to knock out Missouri in late-night SEC tournament first round
• What’s at stake for South Carolina in the SEC baseball tournament
• What’s at stake for Clemson in this week’s ACC baseball tournament