Verity Named To Groza Watch List…Baseball Earns Fourth-Straight ABCA Academic Excellence Award…ECU certified as a Bee Campus USA …Gardner-Webb football wants to recreate the magic of basketball season. “Why not us?” …UCF & Memphis receive record $13 million gifts…Panthers cut Elijah Hood 3 hours after he got to training camp — and it wasn’t easy for anyone…Kawhi Leonard and Paul George Share a Red Carpet Moment as New Clippers…Are you among the thousands hopping on the Braves’ bandwagon?

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

The Bradsher Beat
ECU soccer squad inspired by national team Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• Verity Named To Groza Watch List
• Baseball Earns Fourth-Straight ABCA Academic Excellence Award

ECU certified as a Bee Campus USA  Greenville Daily Reflector

ECU’s Verity named to 2019 Lou Groza watch list WITN 7

ECU baseball earns academic excellence award Jacksonville Daily News

247 Sports

• Jake Verity named to Lou Groza Award Watch List
• Biggest Recruiting Steals in Recent ECU History
• High-level players ECU is targeting for the 2020 class

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

All Six American Teams, 27 Individuals Collect IWLCA Academic Honors theamerican.org

UCF receives record $13 million gift commitment to establish athletic scholarship fund Orlando Sentinel

University of Memphis athletics receives largest monetary commitment in program history Memphis Commercial Appeal

What UMass can teach UConn about life as a football independent Hartford Courant

Top position battles to watch for during Tigers fall camp 247 Sports

TU defensive end Trevis Gipson learns new techniques at Von Miller Pass Rush Summit Tulsa World

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Gardner-Webb football wants to recreate the magic of basketball season. “Why not us?”  Charlotte Observer

Raleigh News and Observer

• North Carolina football sells out of its 28,400 season tickets
• How Gamecocks plan to turn 2018’s defensive growing pains into positives in 2019

Leftover notes from Wake Forest’s time at the ACC Kickoff. Getting better on defense, facing UNC and playing on Fridays. Winston Salem Journal

The Syllabus: Beer at college sports events (an update) Greensboro News-Record

At JMU, a new football coach with the same high expectations Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Hampton Roads Daily Press

• First task for ODU football team: getting to know each other
• Table set for Hokies to rebound from 2018 disappointments

Sapakoff: Dear Bob, the Gamecocks need more than ice cream vs. Clemson Charleston Post and Courier