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 Bonesville.net
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
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
Rivals.com
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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