With XFL canceling season, football eyes look to Week 0 for hope (including Notre Dame vs Navy in Ireland & ECU vs Marshall)…ECU showing interest in UConn transfer Alterique Gilbert…Perry shifts outlook, mindset toward fall fields…Coaches, ADs, commissioners must be visible, informative leaders even as games have stopped…USA Track & Field calls for Tokyo Olympics postponement, joining USA Swimming…Saturday marks 10th full day without the NBA
Pirate Press: ECU Headlines
Syracuse basketball star Elijah Hughes will ‘enter the NBA Draft process’ syracuse.com
247 Sports
Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
- Perry shifts outlook, mindset toward fall fields
- ECU leader met with potential chancellor candidates
Around the American Athletic Conference
UCF Knights vie to replace star receiver Gabriel Davis Orlando Sentinel
Dillon Gabriel has a message for UCF fans: Do your part 247 Sports
Tulsa World
- Guerin Emig: Coaches, ADs, commissioners must be visible, informative leaders even as games have stopped
- Bill Haisten: TU’s best team ever – Bill Self’s 32-win Hurricane that nearly crashed the Final Four
UH coaches and players still dealing with disappointment from no NCAA Tournament Houston Chronicle
Eric Wedge reflects on Shockers season KAKE.com
Wichita State basketball recruiting big board: 20 prospects Shocker fans need to know Wichita Eagle
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Washington Post
- Missing the NCAA tournament? CBS Sports will be playing its greatest hits.
- For Utah State’s Sam Merrill, one shining moment never arrived
- Maryland basketball’s Jalen Smith earns third-team all-American honors
Duke guard Tre Jones to enter 2020 NBA draft; forward O’Connell enters transfer portal Raleigh News and Observer
Winston Salem Journal
- Top 10 NCAA Tourney games in history: No. 8, Thompson, Wolfpack end UCLA’s long run in ’74
- Top 10 NCAA Tourney games in history: No. 9, Worthy, Jordan lead UNC to ’82 title vs. Hoyas
- The biggest upsets in NCAA history
- On App State’s Tim Frizzell, Hansky Paillant and a post-spring practice depth chart
As Hokies miss spring football practice, here are five key areas coaches will wait to assess Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Does Frank Martin expect any transfers? What about the tight scholarship situation? Charlotte Observer
Moving beyond tragedy, Clemson pitcher and her family unite around softball program Charleston Post and Courier
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
A recap of all the big NFL player moves this past week Winston Salem Journal
Washington Post
- Coronavirus could cost NBA $1 billion, bring about record salary cap drop
- Two Lakers, Celtics’ Marcus Smart are NBA’s latest to test positive for the coronavirus
- Shut the Olympic Games down, and do it now
- USA Track & Field calls for Tokyo Olympics postponement, joining USA Swimming
- Antonio Brown wants to join Tom Brady with the Buccaneers
- NBCSW will broadcast video game simulations of Wizards and Capitals games
- No ballplayer has more integrity than Cal Ripken Jr. He’s not too hard on the Astros.
- What made the Brady-Belichick partnership great is what made it have to end
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Greatest Final Fours of all-time: No. 3 – 1966
- Greatest Final Fours of all-time: No. 4 – 1963
- Revisiting the spring of 1995, the last time an MLB season was delayed
- Former Westlake star Cam Newton among NFL stars likely looking for jobs
- Saturday marks 10th full day without the NBA
- Where the 2020 Olympics stand four months before opening date
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