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Greg Vacek's Daily Web RoundupMonday, February 18, 2019

February 18, 2019 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

ECU Rallies From 17 Down Only To Lose In Overtime…No. 11 Pirates complete opening sweep…ECU softball on hot start…Lacrosse Falls At No. 3 North Carolina…Baseball: UCF, ECU and Tulane sweep opening weekend series, UConn and USF win Sunday rubber matches…Cincinnati Bearcats stop the Wichita State Shockers…Tulane still winless in league play with home loss to No. 9 Houston…New No. 1 expected after Tennessee’s loss to No. 5 Kentucky…Kevin Durant pushes Team LeBron to comeback victory in NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte…‘This one’s for J.D.’: Denny Hamlin’s emotional Daytona 500 win honors late co-founder…Tim Tebow says Steve Spurrier ‘keeps calling’ about AAF, but he’s ‘all-in on baseball’

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Insights from Brett
Pirates poised to build on program’s storied history
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ecupirates.com

  • ECU Rallies From 17 Down Only To Lose In Overtime
  • ECU Baseball Finishes Sweep With 4-3 Win Over Radford
  • ECU Lacrosse Falls At No. 3 North Carolina
  • Pirates Down Wagner 6-3 For Fifth-Straight Win
  • Pirates MTennis Finish Road Trip With 4-2 Win At Bryant

Greenville Daily Reflector

  • ECU rallies, falls in OT
  • No. 11 Pirates complete opening sweep
  • Colleges: ECU softball on hot start

WNCT 9

  • Pirates fall to Tulsa in OT in “Autism Awareness” Game
  • ECU softball rolls to 5th win in a row
  • (11) ECU completes season opening sweep over Radford, 4-3
  • Pirate Lacrosse falls at (3) North Carolina

WCTI 12

  • ECU Basketball Falls In Overtime
  • ECU Baseball Completes The Sweep

Rivals.com

  • ECU Falls In Overtime To Tulsa 77-73
  • ECU Sweeps Radford With a 4-3 Sunday Win in Greenville

247 Sports

  • ECU can’t finish in overtime against Tulsa
  • ECU offers four-star legacy recruit Josh Hall on visit
  • Tulsa 77, ECU 73 (OT): How it looked from the baselines
  • No. 11 ECU opens season with sweep
  • ECU 4, Radford 3: how it looked from the dugouts.

Sterling Taplin’s late 3-pointer seals TU win at East Carolina Tulsa World

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

The Associated Press

  • Igbanu, Horne carry Tulsa over East Carolina 77-73 in OT
  • Cumberland has 27, Cincinnati beats Wichita State 72-62
  • Davis scores 26 as No. 9 Houston beats Tulane 85-50

theamerican.org

  • Baseball: UCF, ECU and Tulane sweep opening weekend series, UConn and USF win Sunday rubber matches
  • Six Sunday Wins Cap Off Successful Weekend for American Teams

Cincinnati Bearcats stop the Wichita State Shockers Cincinnati Enquirer

Wichita Eagle

  • Cincinnati’s defense suffocates Shockers, snapping their four-game winning streak
  • Breaking down the five things the Shockers learned from a road loss to Cincinnati

USF fills final vacancy on football staff Tampa Bay Times

UCF baseball team earns sweep of Siena Orlando Sentinel

New Orleans Advocate

  • Tulane freshman Hudson Haskin delivers key play again; this time grand slam in eight-run sixth inning
  • Hot shooting Houston rips Tulane 85-50

New Orleans Time Picayune

  • How Hudson Haskin became Tulane baseball’s newest freshman hero
  • Tulane still winless in league play with home loss to No. 9 Houston

No. 9 Cougars make 17 3s in AAC rout of Tulane  Houston Chronicle

AD Tom Bowen on Memphis football’s declining attendance, fans’ complaints, schedules Memphis Commercial Appeal

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

  • U.Va. expects to see “a different team” in rematch at Virginia Tech
  • A guide to ODU’s four-game “bonus” play in Conference USA

South Carolina takes series win over Liberty with walk-off wild pitch  Columbia The State

The Associated Press

  • New No. 1 expected after Tennessee’s loss to No. 5 Kentucky
  • Figueroa lifts St. John’s to 71-65 win over No. 13 Villanova

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

New York Times

  • Basketball Is Beside the Point During N.B.A. All-Star Weekend
  • Hamidou Diallo’s Dunk Is Even Better Viewed Frame by Frame
  • Tim Tebow Takes Another Step With the Mets (and Avoids Sprinklers This Time)
  • Rob Manfred Says Baseball Doesn’t Have a Free Agency Crisis
  • Colin Kaepernick and the N.F.L. Settle Collusion Case
  • In Colin Kaepernick Case, N.F.L. Makes a Familiar, Safe Call
  • Denny Hamlin Navigates Crash-Filled Finish to Win Daytona 500

Washington Post

  • Michael Jordan hosted the NBA All-Star Game, but he let today’s stars take center stage
  • NBA All-Star Weekend provided a potent reminder that this is now the world’s game
  • Tim Tebow says Steve Spurrier ‘keeps calling’ about AAF, but he’s ‘all-in on baseball’
  • Rob Manfred says players share responsibility for MLB’s slow offseason: ‘Our teams are trying’
  • The Nationals loaded up on pitchers and are betting their season on those arms
  • Yan Gomes is an all-star catcher okay with splitting time. For the Nationals, that’s big.
  • Capitals can’t stay out of the penalty box in a letdown against the Ducks
  • The incomparable audacity of Colin Kaepernick amazes his admirers in the NBA
  • Denny Hamlin honors J.D. Gibbs after winning crash-filled Daytona 500

Charlotte Observer

  • Kevin Durant pushes Team LeBron to comeback victory in NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte
  • Team LeBron rallies to beat Team Giannis, 178-164
  • Kevin Durant leads comeback, takes MVP in NBA All-Star Game
  • NBA All-Star Game rewind: 3-point shots, dunks, J Cole and a killer national anthem.
  • Who won the NBA All-Star Game? The city of Charlotte, which did itself proud.
  • Denny Hamlin wins 2nd Daytona 500 in 4 years after surviving 3 wrecks in last 10 laps
  • ‘You lost. It’s a lost race’: Kyle Busch comes up short of 1st Daytona 500 win again
  • ‘This one’s for J.D.’: Denny Hamlin’s emotional Daytona 500 win honors late co-founder

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