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Friday, March 13, 2020

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ECU suspends spring sports over COVID-19 concerns…UNC System institutions will transition online amid Coronavirus outbreak…Twenty-Four Hours When Sports Hit the Halt Button; On a day sports stopped, a realization that doing the right thing can hurt like hell…NCAA cancels March Madness amid coronavirus fears…Inside the decision to cancel the AAC tournament, and how SMU reacted to its season ending…The ACC wanted its tournament to play on. Only Duke’s president had the courage to stop it….Cam Newton isn’t game ready, and that makes trading him difficult

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

COLLEGE SPORTS NEWS
ECU athletics on hold
 Bonesville.net

ECU Athletics Suspends Spring Sports Competition ecupirates.com

The East Carolinian

  • ECU suspends spring sports over COVID-19 concerns
  • AAC cancels men’s basketball tournament due to COVID-19
  • UNC System institutions will transition online amid Coronavirus outbreak

ECU athletics, AAC suspend spring sports competition WITN 7

ECU Suspends Spring Sports Rivals

247 Sports

  • ECU sports on hold amid coronavirus pandemic
  • American Athletic Conference suspends all spring sports
  • AAC Commissioner Mike Aresco speaks on canceling MBB tournament
  • AAC tournament cancelled due to coronavirus concerns

Pirates suspend sports Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

theamerican.org

  • American Athletic Conference Announces Suspension of Spring Athletics Competition
  • American Athletic Conference Announces Cancellation of Men’s Basketball Championship

Inside the decision to cancel the AAC tournament, and how SMU reacted to its season ending Dallas Morning News

Reactions: Multiple conferences cancel postseason tournaments because of coronavirus Cincinnati Enquirer

Temple cancels Cherry & White Football Fan Fest; spring practice suspended at least two weeks Philadelphia Inquirer

Chaos, confusion of sports shutdown shows how ill-prepared we are for coronavirus | Commentary Orlando Sentinel

Kushner: Final Tulane baseball game felt like any other, but amid uncertainty, that’s a gift NOLA.com

Memphis Commercial Appeal

  • University of Memphis cancels all public spring football events over coronavirus concerns
  • Penny Hardaway says AAC’s decision to cancel its tournament is ‘bigger than basketball’

Guerin Emig: On a day sports stopped, a realization that doing the right thing can hurt like hell Tulsa World

Houston Chronicle

  • AAC Tournament canceled due to coronavirus
  • UH basketball reacts to cancellation of NCAA Tournament due to…

Wichita Eagle

  • Coronavirus has likely ended WSU’s spring sports. What comes next for the athletes?
  • WSU’s basketball season over, Jaime Echenique’s career ends after NCAA cancels tourney

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News and Observer

  • From babies to a trophy celebration, the surreal story of canceling the ACC tournament
  • The ACC wanted its tournament to play on. Only Duke’s president had the courage to stop it
  • The ACC basketball tournament has been canceled due to concerns of coronavirus outbreak
  • College basketball is over, but Duke’s Cassius Stanley had 29 dunks that will live on
  • NCCU’s quest for a four-peat ends as MEAC cancels rest of basketball tournament

CAA official who worked UNC Wilmington basketball game tests positive for coronavirus WITN 7

Winston Salem Journal

  • Coronavirus brings ACC, sports in the Triad to a halt
  • ACC, Greensboro and sports move into an uncertain future
  • Wake Forest follows ACC’s lead in suspending all athletics; cancels spring football game
  • WSSU’s game, Division II basketball tournament at Indiana (Pa.) cancelled
  • The Sun Belt, App State’s conference, suspends regular season, championships indefinitely

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

  • NCAA cancels March Madness amid coronavirus fears
  • ACC scraps rest of its men’s basketball tourney before it suspends all athletic activities as a result of coronavirus outbreak
  • The MEAC joins conferences across the country in canceling its games. NSU, other local colleges lament loss of revenue, March Madness.
  • Once NBA suspended play, college had no choice but to cancel conference tournaments

March Madness, other college sports canceled amid coronavirus concerns Tampa Bay Times

Sapakoff: Give Brad Brownell one more year as Clemson basketball coach, but no extension Charleston Post and Courier

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

Charlotte Observer

  • Panthers Tracks: Cam Newton isn’t game ready, and that makes trading him difficult
  • Panthers limit travel for coaches and scouts, instruct most employees to work from home
  • NHL suspends 2019-20 season because of coronavirus threat
  • MLB delays opening day at least 2 weeks because of virus
  • No fans, now no players: PGA Tour shuts down for a month

New York Times

  • Twenty-Four Hours When Sports Hit the Halt Button
  • The Games Will Come Back. The Moments We’ll Miss Are Already Gone.
  • In Coronavirus Outbreak, the High-Five Is Left Hanging
  • Updates on Sports Canceled by Coronavirus
  • N.C.A.A. Basketball Tournaments Canceled Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
  • From Rocky Season to No Season, Inside the N.B.A.’s Decision to Freeze
  • ‘Blatant Misogyny’: U.S. Women Protest, and U.S. Soccer President Resigns
  • PGA Tour Shuts Down in Response to the Coronavirus
  • Formula One Opener Canceled as Coronavirus Casts Shadow Over Season
  • M.L.B. Pushes Back Opening Day Over Coronavirus Concerns
  • Champions League and Euro 2020 in Jeopardy as Teams Enter Quarantine

Washington Post

  • NCAA takes a financial hit by canceling tournament, but it’s the players left at a loss
  • NCAA basketball tournaments canceled in response to coronavirus
  • For sports fans, cancellations are unprecedented and deflating
  • Champions League, Premier League matches called off as coronavirus puts a halt to European soccer
  • MLS suspends matches for 30 days
  • UFC will stage upcoming events; PGA Tour abruptly halts Players Championship; Arsenal manager tests positive
  • Carlos Cordeiro resigns as president of U.S. Soccer
  • NFL cancels annual league meeting because of coronavirus, will consider changes to draft
  • Delaying MLB season for safety might feel like a bad trade. But it was only deal possible.
  • Inside the NBA’s coronavirus response and its decision to suspend season
  • Rudy Gobert apologizes: ‘I was careless and have no excuse’
  • Wizards self-quarantine
  • A typically noisy sports month is silenced by coronavirus cancellations
  • NHL suspends season indefinitely as coronavirus outbreak continues
  • Sports provide a refuge, but they blurred our vision on coronavirus
  • Redskins pull coaches and scouts off the road amid coronavirus outbreak
  • On a surreal day in Florida, the Nationals took the field as MLB planned around a pandemic
  • Charles Barkley says he’s ‘in limbo’ while awaiting coronavirus test results

Atlanta Journal Constitution

  • NCAA cancels basketball tournament, Atlanta Final Four  
  • The reviled NCAA just performed a public service
  • Coronavirus forces sports leagues to stop grabbing for money
  • Spring showings by these Braves might carry over to season 
  • McIlroy said Masters should be played with no spectators
  • Hawks will take care of employees amid NBA hiatus, owner Tony Ressler says
  • ACC’s hiatus due to coronavirus impacts hundreds of Georgia Tech athletes

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