Killinger steps down as ECU women’s basketball interim coach…Mealing named active head coach of ECU women’s basketball…Steve Shankweiler Hopes to Help Create More ECU Football Magic…Toughest job in college football: Defensive coordinator…Temple interim Ed Foley coaching Thursday’s Independence Bowl vs. Duke with a heavy heart…Yow’s Christmas gesture thwarted by NCAA gift rules…Weather cancels No. 23 Boise’s First Responder Bowl vs BC…Redskins shake up business operations, ousting Brian Lafemina, three deputies…Another week, another new starting quarterback for Carolina Panthers…

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Interim coach stepping down Greenville Daily Reflector

Killinger steps down as ECU women’s basketball interim coach WNCT 9

Mealing named active head coach of ECU women’s basketball WITN 7

Where ECU’s decommitments for the 2019 class ended up 247 Sports

Rivals.com

• Steve Shankweiler Hopes to Help Create More ECU Football Magic
• Donnie K Excited To Return to ECU

Toughest job in college football: Defensive coordinator Associated Press

The Legend and the Myth of the Halftime Adjustment SI.com

The team chose him (Minshew) Lewiston Tribune Online

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

Walk-On’s Independence Bowl Preview: Temple Faces Duke theamerican.org

Temple interim Ed Foley coaching Thursday’s Independence Bowl vs. Duke with a heavy heart Philly.com

Stumbling Duke, surging Temple meet in Independence Bowl WRAL

Duke seeks consistent performance against Temple in Independence Bowl Raleigh News and Observer

Cincinnati Bearcats Guard Takes AAC Player of the Week Honors BCSNN

University of Cincinnati WR Kahlil Lewis looking for the end zone in Military Bowl finale Cincinnati Enquirer

Blue Adams, Damon Cogdell not expected back at USF Tampa Bay Times

UCF Knights ‘We Are the Champions’ video celebrates back-to-back championships Orlando Sentinel

Top 10 Courant Stories of 2018 No.7: Tale of 3 coaches at UConn; Kevin Ollie out, Dan Hurley in, Jim Calhoun back Hartford Courant

Memphis basketball: What to watch in Penny Hardaway’s Tigers’ final tune-up before AAC play Memphis Commercial Appeal

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

WRAL

• Yow’s Christmas gesture thwarted by NCAA gift rules
• Holliday: Lessons from a dying coach

App Trail: App State football hires a special teams coordinator Winston Salem Journal

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Column: Vinny Mihota’s endurance and disregard of pain helped Hokies land bowl bid
• Quarterback Blake LaRussa leaving ODU to attend divinity school

Columbia The State

• Gamecocks ‘trying to play the big guy role’ and flex SEC muscle vs. Virginia
• The key factor Will Muschamp sees for successful bowl teams
• Notre Dame embracing underdog role entering Cotton Bowl matchup against Clemson

Sapakoff: ‘Program defining’ Oklahoma rout launched Clemson football as an elite program Charleston Post Courier

The Associated Press

• Questions heading into College Football Playoff media day
• No. 2 Clemson, No. 3 Notre Dame in playoff after QB switches
• Cal’s Hawkins shines as defensive MVP in Cheez-It Bowl loss
• TCU beats Cal 10-7 in overtime of wild Cheez-It Bowl
• Minnesota routs Georgia Tech 24-10 in Quick Lane Bowl
• Minnesota runs past Georgia Tech 34-10 in Quick Lane Bowl
• Ohio State, Washington welcome a more traditional Rose Bowl
• Weather cancels No. 23 Boise’s First Responder Bowl vs BC
• Syracuse’s Dino Babers, a wanderer who’s found a home
• Baylor looks to reach 7 wins against Vandy in Texas Bowl
• Buffalo QB Jackson to explore transferring to another school
• Michigan’s Bushell-Beatty to miss Peach Bowl against Florida
• Miami, Wisconsin set to battle cold in frigid Pinstripe Bowl