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GREG VACEK'S DAILY WEB ROUNDUPSunday, March 22, 2020

March 22, 2020 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

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

With XFL canceling season, football eyes look to Week 0 for hope (including Notre Dame vs Navy in Ireland) NBC Sports

Syracuse basketball star Elijah Hughes will ‘enter the NBA Draft process’ syracuse.com

247 Sports

  • ECU showing interest in UConn transfer Alterique Gilbert
  • WHAT IF: Mike Trout came to ECU?

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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