Greg Vacek's Daily Web Roundup
Sunday, August 18, 2019

‘Win Now’ is goal for Pirates in first year under coach Mike Houston…Both Sides Shine In Final Scrimmage; Tank Robinson shines in ECU football’s final scrimmage…East Carolina football wraps up fall camp with media day…TowneBank Tower gets thumbs up from Pirate fans…Date with OU gives Houston chance to surge to AAC favorite status…With Alabama looming, Duke’s offense takes important steps toward improvement…Analysis: Toughest schedule? So. Carolina can make the claim…Small group of Virginia Tech players encouraged teammates to throw game vs. Marshall…Bristol bristles with emotion as Hamlin spoils DiBenedetto’s upset bid…Braves use back-to-back homers, lights-out bullpen to finally defeat Dodgers

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Bonesville.net

• VIEW FROM THE EAST
  ECU rejection sent Houston into coaching
• Audio: ECU Media Day
  Mike Houston Presser
• Special Photo Feature
  Media Day Gallery

Both Sides Shine In Final Scrimmage ecupirates.com

Greenville Daily Reflector

• ECU second scrimmage: Take a punch, give a punch
• Mixing it up at media day
• TowneBank Tower gets thumbs up from Pirate fans
• First-year medical students introduced to value of teamwork

ECU Holds 2019 Media Day WNCT 9

WITN 7

• Tank Robinson shines in ECU football’s final scrimmage
• Fans flood Dowdy-Ficklen to ‘Meet the Pirates’
• Meet the Pirates event held at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium
• UPDATE: ECU police arrest four men involved in armed robbery

August 17th, 11 p.m. Sports; East Carolina football wraps up fall camp with media day WCTI 12

247 Sports

• ECU concludes preseason camp with intense scrimmage
• New mindset taking hold in ECU’s receiver room

Rivals.com

• Shankweiler Signals Progress On ECU’s Offensive Front
• Confidence Level High at ECU Media Day on Saturday

New coach Mike Houston trying to change the losing culture of East Carolina football Charlotte Observer

‘Win Now’ is goal for Pirates in first year under coach Mike Houston Fayetteville Observer

East Carolina Durham Herald-Sun

NASCAR Great Jeff Hammond Leads Hunters to Give Meat nrahlf.org

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

What we learned during UC football’s final training camp scrimmage Cincinnati Enquirer

Penalties persist in USF’s second scrimmage Tampa Bay Times

7-foot-6-inch Celtic Tacko Fall’s unlikely journey to the brink of the NBA Boston Globe

UConn linebackers preview: Veterans D.J. Morgan, Omar Fortt could bring improvement Hartford Courant

247 Sports

• Camp Report Day 10: UC Scrimmage Two In The Books
• Owls forced to repeat Thursday’s practice on Friday
• The story behind Coach Rod Carey’s no-tackle practice policy
• Statistical breakdown of Memphis’ first two games in Bahamas

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Tigers tested: Memphis holds off Bahamas National Team in exhibition action
• Memphis basketball: ‘It’s all coming together’ for freshman D.J. Jeffries in Bahamas

TU football: Offense improving, quarterbacks still battling as fans get first look at Hurricane Tulsa World

College football 2019: Date with OU gives Houston chance to surge to AAC favorite status The Oklahoman

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

With Alabama looming, Duke’s offense takes important steps toward improvement Raleigh News and Observer

Wake Forest wants to maintain program’s developmental identity as goals elevate Winston Salem Journal

Former USC, South Carolina AD and Duke football coach Mike McGee dies at 80 Fayetteville Observer

Which QB looked sharp in Charlotte 49ers scrimmage? Coach says it’s too close to call  Charlotte Observer

Class of 2020 | The Top 50 high school football recruits in Hampton Roads Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Hampton Roads Daily Press

• Ten years in the making, ACC Network poised to launch
• W&M basketball program adds late recruit to incoming class

Report: Small group of Virginia Tech players encouraged teammates to throw game vs. Marshall Saturday Down South

Columbia The State

• Where things stood with South Carolina’s QBs right after second scrimmage
• Tavien Feaster runs well, but he can also catch ‘like a receiver,’ Muschamp says
• Jake Bentley explains his detox process from social media
• Becoming a father gives Clemson’s AJ Terrell added motivation for 2019

Sapakoff: How Clemson can go 16-0; South Carolina’s hard way to 8-5 Charleston Post and Courier

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Freshman George Pickens highlights Georgia’s ‘explosive playmakers’
• Another 4-star offensive lineman commits to Georgia
• Kirby Smart pays homage to former Bulldog Isaiah Wynn

OU football: How Lincoln Riley escapes from the grind of coaching with fishing The Oklahoman

The Associated Press

• Analysis: Toughest schedule? So. Carolina can make the claim
• Oklahoma QB Hurts cramming for only year with Sooners
• Longtime South Carolina AD McGee dies at 80
• Ground rules: Run-heavy Air Force looks to get back on track