ECU Completes Prep For First Scrimmage; Scrimmage storylines: QBs, RBs in focus…Player leadership still developing for ECU as 2019 season nears…Tides honor four, including David Wright…Staff changes used to irk UC football coach Luke Fickell. Not anymore…Saban: Bama working toward 10 Power 5 games…Laird Veatch named University of Memphis Director of Athletics…How brothers Thayer and Drake Thomas took different roads to NC State football…NFL hopeful talked his way into a tryout. In his debut, he scored a touchdown…Simone Biles Takes Gymnastics to a New Level. Again….The Braves are good, but can they close gap with Dodgers?

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• ECU Completes Prep For First Scrimmage
• Pirates Boast Deep Midfield

Scrimmage storylines: QBs, RBs in focus  Greenville Daily Reflector

WITN 7

• ECU football completes prep for first scrimmage
• South Central’s Kendall Futrell a leader on ECU defense
• ECU names new Alumni Association President
• Brody School of Medicine has White Coat Ceremony

247 Sports

• Player leadership still developing for ECU as 2019 season nears
• Pirates conclude final practice before first August scrimmage
• Know The Foe: UCF Knights
• Know The Foe: USF Bulls
• Catching up with the Coordinators: ST coordinator Roy Tesh

Tides honor four, including David Wright Norfolk Virginian Pilot

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

Staff changes used to irk UC football coach Luke Fickell. Not anymore Cincinnati Enquirer

Saban: Bama working toward 10 Power 5 games ESPN

UConn receivers and tight ends preview: New-look group has much production to replace Hartford Courant

Lawmaker wants donors to pay for UConn’s exit from AAC Chicago Tribune

Dominant duo: bookends Patrick Johnson, Patrick Johnson key to Tulane’s rise NOLA.com

TV-radio notes: Tulane hires Virginia Tech’s Andrew Allegretta Roanoke Times

Memphis among top 25 teams in KenPom’s program rankings 247 Sports

Laird Veatch named University of Memphis Director of Athletics Memphis Tigers

Underdog Pawdcast: 2019 Memphis Tigers Football Preview with Evan Barnes SB Nation

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• 3 things to know about new Memphis AD Laird Veatch
• Former Memphis quarterback Riley Ferguson returns to Tigers practice

Patrick Carr ready for his role in UH backfield Houston Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

• How brothers Thayer and Drake Thomas took different roads to NC State football
• NCAA drops proposed academic fraud reform
• Everyone is chasing Clemson and Alabama as college football begins a new season
• Duke loses promising wide receiver Jake Bobo to injury
• This Clemson senior considered a transfer. A renewed commitment is paying off
• No championship rings yet for Clemson players suspended for playoff. Here’s why
• ‘Blessed with another year’ at USC, JT Ibe is preaching the importance of health
• Does your cable company carry the ACC Network? What you need to know

Winston Salem Journal

• Wake Forest’s last original Beef Boys are entering their final seasons, but their legacies will remain for years to come
• WSSU opens preseason football practice with plenty of running as conditioning is order of the day

For Gamecocks veteran Rico Dowdle, newcomer Tavien Feaster is just another challenge Charleston Post and Courier

Looking at Georgia’s 2019 opponents: Notre Dame Atlanta Journal Constitution