Mike and Amanda Houston lead successful ECU Football Ladies Clinic…Hylton-Pelaia To Represent Jamaica At Pan Am Games…UConn to pay $17 million in AAC exit fee, depart conference next year…App State, NC A&T and UNC Wilmington join the club: Fans can buy alcohol on game day; Gov. Cooper signs law allowing sports gambling at NC tribal casinos…College football preseason Top 25: Clemson is still king…The Big Ten Missed the Playoff Twice. Is Winning the Conference Enough to Contend?…UNC Greensboro put on probation by NCAA…Two off weeks this season a boon to college football safety…Tour de France Lead Changes Hands as Hail Shortens Stage…Mookie Betts’s 3 Homers Lead Another Red Sox Demolition of the Yankees…Four U.S. athletes injured in fatal nightclub accident in South Korea…If Greg Olsen wants to be part of the Panthers’ future, he better not break his foot again

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• Hylton-Pelaia To Represent Jamaica At Pan Am Games
• Clear Bag Policy Q&A

Mike and Amanda Houston lead successful ECU Football Ladies Clinic WITN 7

247 Sports

• ECU’s Top 25 Most Important Players for 2019: Jalen Price
• ECU Football Burning Questions: Special Teams

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference and University of Connecticut Reach Agreement on UConn’s Departure from The American theamerican.org

Hartford Courant

• UConn to pay $17 million in AAC exit fee, depart conference next year
• Mike Anthony: $17 million AAC exit fee a wise investment for UConn
• What UMass can teach UConn about life as a football independent

UConn, AAC agree on $17M early exit fee; football program to become Independent The Day

Cincinnati Enquirer

• American Athletic Conference: UConn to pay $17M to return to Big East
• Cincinnati Bearcats football lands pledge from Ohio DL Justin Wodtly

USF men to play FSU in December Tampa Bay Times

247 Sports

• Who is Rod Carey? Temple’s coach describes his football roots
• SMU-TCU won’t be played on the hardwood in 2019-20 season
• Justin Wodtly Commits to the Bearcats

Tulsa men’s tennis signs three international players Tulsa World

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

• App State, NC A&T and UNC Wilmington join the club: Fans can buy alcohol on game day
• Gov. Cooper signs law allowing sports gambling at NC tribal casinos
• Isaiah Totten, NC Central’s quiet leader, named preseason first-team All-MEAC

College football preseason Top 25: Clemson is still king Atlanta Journal Constitution

Winston Salem Journal

• Wake Forest adds former Deacons assistant to staff as analyst
• Multiple Wake Forest football players wound up on preseason watch lists for postseason awards.
• When Scott Satterfield left App State for Louisville, here’s how his Mountaineer assistants navigated the transition
• App State’s head coach went to Louisville. Mountaineers players won a bowl game anyway. Here’s how they processed the transition.
• Power-Five coaches Scott Satterfield, Dave Clawson, Jeff Brohm and Scott Frost on building a coaching staff
• UNCG gets three years of NCAA probation; soccer investigation pending

Charlotte Observer

• The Healy Era opens at Charlotte: Where are wins, losses on 49ers’ football schedule?
• Alyssa Lang Q&A: USC alum at home in the Carolinas with SEC Network
• The 7 true freshmen who will play for South Carolina in 2019

Fayetteville Observer

• UNC Greensboro put on probation by NCAA
• Former UNC, Hornets guard PJ Hairston fighting to revive career

5 potential FCS over FBS upsets for the 2019 college football season NCAA

Hokies seek for clarity in the backfield as a potential transfer’s decision looms Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Hampton Roads Daily Press

• Two off weeks this season a boon to college football safety
• Backfield pecking order, roles remain questions for Hokies heading into preseason 

Raw Reunion rekindles memories, revives ratings Charleston Post and Courier

The Big Ten Missed the Playoff Twice. Is Winning the Conference Enough to Contend? New York Times