Pirate Press: ECU Headlines
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The East Carolinian
- Cancellation of spring sports generates questions, disappointment
- ECU basketball sees an abrupt end to season
- ECU students’ spring break impacted by coronavirus
- ECU on-campus facilities to undergo schedule changes in light of COVID-19
ECU students early move out amid coronavirus fears WNCT 9
ECU move out process underway WITN 7
247 Sports
- 10 ECU football players we wanted to see this spring
- ECU showing interest in grad transfer Ryan Murphy
Around the American Athletic Conference
Paul Daugherty: UC basketball coach John Brannen and his family are making March memories Cincinnati Enquirer
Coronavirus costs early football enrollees chance at head start Tampa Bay Times
NCAA transfer portal for basketball players still up and running | Mike Jensen Philadelphia Inquirer
Memphis AD Laird Veatch says no student-athletes have required coronavirus testing Memphis Commercial Appeal
Amid coronavirus outbreak, one Italian SMU tennis player faces uncertainty on when she’ll return home Dallas Morning News
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Raleigh News and Observer
- It’s been a long week without sports. And yet still only a week.
- What could have been NCAA tournament: Maryland makes Final Four out of Big Ten
Winston Salem Journal
- App State’s Shawn Clark on dealing with COVID-19, player safety and supporting Boone businesses
- Top 10 NCAA Tourney games in history: No. 10, UNC beats Michigan for 1993 title
- In absence of March Madness, a look back at big shots in tourney history
Coronavirus could cost Triangle universities $340 million in student refunds The Business Journals (sub req’d)
U.Va.’s Bronco Mendenhall has a new routine: a commute to his pool house, virtual meetings, rodeo roping. Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Charleston Post and Courier
- Should Gamecocks hang a national championship banner? NCAA, SEC can’t stop them
- Clemson safety preparing for 2020 NFL Draft after blistering 40-yard dash time
Washington Post
- March Madness should have started Thursday. This is how sports fans are coping.
- The best March Madness games by round since the field expanded to 68 teams
- DMV Madness: 16 memorable first-round NCAA tournament games involving local-ish teams
CBS to re-air Villanova’s 1985, 2016 NCAA Tournament title game wins Philadelphia Inquirer
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Updated: NFL trades, signings and free agent deals announced so far Winston Salem Journal
Charlotte Observer
- Tom Talks: Waiting for the good part of Carolina Panthers’ future, whenever that may be
- Cam Newton’s effect on Charlotte? He fed the homeless after Panthers home games.
- Panthers free agency tracker. Who’s leaving, who’s staying and who are the new players?
- With NASCAR going virtual, William Byron could be the sport’s next face
Olympic flame lands in Japan as doubts grow over Tokyo Games Raleigh News and Observer
New York Times
- Tom Brady Becomes a Tampa Bay Buccaneer
- With the Boston Marathon Postponed, Des Linden Hits the Couch
- The 48 Hours When Liverpool’s Title Run Screeched to a Halt
- Olympics President: ‘Of Course, We Are Considering Different Scenarios’
- 4 Top Coaches on the Great Basketball Games You Can Still See
- Boston Offers Bouquets to Tom Brady and Disdain to the Patriots
- The Wild West, on Skis
- What to Watch: How About Cherry-Pit Spitting or Australian Rules Football?
- European Soccer’s Leaders Plot a Speedy Return, With or Without Fans
- Saints Coach Sean Payton Is N.F.L.’s First Known Coronavirus Case
- Aqueduct Suspends Races After Worker Tests Positive for Coronavirus
- I.O.C.’s Reassurance About the Tokyo Olympics Rankles Some Athletes
Washington Post
- VIPs go to the head of the line for coronavirus tests
- Two Lakers, Celtics’ Marcus Smart are NBA’s latest to test positive for coronavirus
- NFL free agency went on despite coronavirus, but there have been complications
- MLB announces short-term financial plan for minor league players as outbreak continues
- Some who work in arenas are still in limbo
- As sports shut down, gamblers and bookies try (and fail) to find enough games to bet
- The NFL quarterback carousel spun at hyperspeed. Here’s who upgraded, and who didn’t.
- NFL free agency updates
- As sports shut down, gamblers and bookies try (and fail) to find enough games to bet
- Saints Coach Sean Payton says he tested positive for coronavirus
- UFC 249’s Khabib-Ferguson fight is still on, but it won’t happen in New York
Atlanta Journal Constitution
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