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Greg Vacek's Daily Web RoundupFriday, June 8, 2018

June 8, 2018 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

Cause Earns Second-Team All-America Shot Put Honors In Eugene…Three ECU players, two signees taken in 2018 MLB Draft…Dooley getting look at personnel as Pirates start workouts…Two radical basketball scheduling ideas could help USF, UCF football …Gamecocks embracing opportunity vs. Hogs…Capitals win Stanley Cup, Washington’s first major sports championship since 1992

Pirate Press: East Carolina Headlines

View from the East
Godwin extols Pirates’ accomplishments
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ecupirates.com

  • Cause Earns Second-Team All-America Shot Put Honors In Eugene
  • Migliorati Places 20th In 800m At NCAA Outdoor Championships
  • Holba And Litton Picked On Day Three Of MLB Draft
  • Burleson Named To Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America Team

Greenville Daily Reflector

  • Godwin staying with Pirates
  • More pro Pirates
  • Burleson continues All-American streak

The East Carolinian

  • ECU’s Burleson named a freshman All-American
  • ECU’s Williams-Sutton, Holba, Litton all drafted

WNCT 9

  • Godwin staying put, reacts to Pirates drafted this week
  • Pirates Holba, Litton go on day three of MLB Draft

WITN 7

  • ECU’s Holba & Litton selected on day 3 of the MLB Draft
  • ECU’s Burleson named to Collegiate Baseball Freshman All-America Team

June 7 11 p.m. sports: Godwin staying at ECU; Wood Ducks fall WCTI 12

247 Sports

  • Dooley getting look at personnel as Pirates start workouts
  • Cliff Godwin confirms he will remain at ECU
  • Three ECU players, two signees taken in 2018 MLB Draft

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

Memphis’ Pryke and Rodriguez Sala highlight Day 2 of NCAA Championships theamerican.org

CB Nick Watkins plans to transfer to UH from Notre Dame Houston Chronicle

UC’s Rodriguez, Alldred, Perez taken in MLB Draft Cincinnati Enquirer

How two radical basketball scheduling ideas could help USF, UCF football Tampa Tribune

Young Cincinnati is working to move up in AAC, No. 80 in 2018 preseason college football rankings Orlando Sentinel

Mike Anthony: UConn Road Show One Piece In Complicated And Challenging Financial Puzzle Hartford Courant

SMU continues its recruiting roll as Woodrow Wilson corner Xavier Gipson commits to Mustangs Dallas News

Memphis Commercial Appeal

  • Hardaway gets another East player to join Tigers
  • 3-star QB commits to Memphis

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

  • NCAA baseball Super Regionals start Friday. Here’s the schedule and how to watch.
  • How UNC baseball stacks up against Stetson heading into the Super Regional round
  • Three things Texas Tech baseball brings to its Super Regional series against Duke
  • Grayson Allen talks best Duke teammates, and if he would play Ted Cruz in a movie.
  • Zion Williamson is already dunking — and shooting — at Duke

CAROLINA BASEBALL: Gamecocks embracing opportunity vs. Hogs Times and Democrat

Columbia The State

  • South Carolina returns to basics, reverses its NCAA fortunes
  • Why Mark Kingston doesn’t mind distraction of MLB draft in midst of NCAA tournament
  • USC’s last series with Arkansas was all pitchers’ duels. Why that won’t happen again
  • Why USC’s 2018-19 basketball schedule is the toughest in the Frank Martin era
  • The play-calling HBC is back: Will Tim Tebow, Tajh Boyd follow?

App State football’s kickoff time for Sept. 8 game against UNCC set Winston Salem Journal

How are Charlotte 49ers making tickets tough for Appalachian State fans? Charlotte Observer

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

  • ODU football broadcast schedule will include traditional TV, but also lots of streaming
  • Oscar Smith football star Cam’Ron Kelly says he’s bound for Virginia Tech
  • QB Josh Jackson still with Hokies despite reports of suspension

Hokies’ QB Josh Jackson still with team despite reports of academic issues Hampton Roads Daily Press

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

Washington Post

  • Capitals win Stanley Cup, Washington’s first major sports championship since 1992
  • Alex Ovechkin wins the Stanley Cup — and secures his legacy
  • Capitals, and Washington, celebrate a victory decades in the making
  • Watch Alex Ovechkin parade the Cup through the lobby of the MGM Grand
  • Washington celebrates Capitals’ Stanley Cup championship
  • Golden Knights may have stumbled, but best is yet to come
  • T.J. Oshie held back tears as he shared the Cup with his dad
  • Caps’ supporting cast again center stage in clincher
  • Video: Caps players reunite with loved ones after winning Cup
  • Here are a couple more awful streaks the Caps ended
  • Does Coach Barry Trotz see a future in Washington? ‘Absolutely’
  • Boswell: For Capitals and their fans, tears of joy replace years of frustration
  • 76ers part with Bryan Colangelo, opening the NBA’s most desirable GM job. Who are the candidates?
  • Best exacta, trifecta and superfecta bets for the 2018 Belmont Stakes
  • Justify’s path to cusp of Triple Crown is unusual. But so is training a 1,380-pound athlete.
  • One Cavaliers veteran has ‘no doubt’ team would be up 3-0 on Warriors with Kyrie Irving

Charlotte Observer

  • Caps on top! Washington wins Stanley Cup, beats Vegas 4-3
  • If Panthers rookie DT Kendrick Norton makes roster, he’s still 31 steps short of goal
  • 2 starters from 7 lottery picks since 2011: Why Hornets’ poor draft history must change
  • NASCAR midseason superlatives, like Daytona 500, are not without controversy
  • Can Mitch Kupchak change pattern for Charlotte Hornets, No. 11 picks in NBA draft?
  • English Premier League confirms winter break from 2020
  • Commission calls for audit of Bucks player’s arrest
  • Argentina’s Lanzini tears right knee ligament, out of WCup
  • A capsule look at 10 top contenders for the US Open

New Hornets broadcaster Chris Kroeger got his start at Appalachian State, WASU Winston Salem Journal

New York Times

  • The Washington Capitals, After Years of Frustration, Win the Stanley Cup
  • Belmont Stakes 2018: Experts’ Picks, Odds and Contenders
  • Marco Cecchinato Reaches a Milestone, Carrying a Match-Fixing Millstone
  • Can the Latest Running Prodigy Avoid a Teenage Slowdown?
  • The Left Side of Steve Kerr’s Brain
  • A Secretive Investor in Triple-Crown Contender Justify: George Soros
  • LeBron James Delivered. Now Does He Exit?
  • Sterling Brown to File Civil Rights Lawsuit After More Videos of Arrest

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