BAILEY: Pirate football update with Coach Mike Houston…A pair of Pirate alumni share their collective past…ECU Swimming and Diving Sees Season Come to a Halt…Aidan Ryan Grabs New ECU Offer and Breaks Down the Very Latest…Ireland’s ban on large gatherings does not impact Navy-Notre Dame football game, Navy AD says…Analysis: Expect college football to take slow road back…Baseball in the minors is facing huge changes …The NFL draft is an overblown spectacle. Thank God it’s almost here….N.F.L. Draft 2020: Joe Burrow Goes First , Then What?…Ron Rivera’s home draft room is ready to go, with his family and dogs there to help…Red Sox’ Alex Cora Suspended Through 2020 in Sign-Stealing Scandal…Tiger, Mickelson, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning to play in TV golf match
Pirate Press: ECU Headlines
Bonesville Rewind: Jon Gilbert was hired from Southern Miss as ECU’s AD in December, 2018
A pair of Pirate alumni share their collective past The East Carolinian
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Aidan Ryan Grabs New ECU Offer and Breaks Down the Very Latest Rivals
247 Sports
Newton never wavered as a rookie Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
Coaching Confidential: Which Assistant Coach Will Make The Best Head Coach? Baseball America
USA Baseball Launches “Fun At Bat At Home” USA Baseball
Around the American Athletic Conference
The American’s 2020 NFL Draft Preview theamerican.org
Tampa Bay Times
- USF gets pledge from Satellite Beach tight end Gunnar Greenwald
- As draft looms, USF’s Mitch Wilcox puts combine ‘debacle’ in past
Orlando Sentinel
- UCF NFL draft preview: Gabe Davis, Nevelle Clarke among Knights hoping to get drafted
- UCF secondary coach says his players have been directly impacted by coronavirus
Jeremiah Williams from Simeon High in Chicago commits to Temple Philadelphia Inquirer
Despite coronavirus restrictions, SMU’s James Proche hasn’t skipped a beat with NFL draft preparations Dallas Morning News
Memphis Commercial Appeal
- Memphis basketball adds preferred walk-on Conor Glennon
- Memphis adds top transfer Landers Nolley II, Virginia Tech’s leading scorer last season
NFL draft breakdown: A quick look at TU, OSU and OU prospects Tulsa World
Annapolis Capital
- Ireland’s ban on large gatherings does not impact Navy-Notre Dame football game, Navy AD says
- Navy nose guard Jackson Pittman considered a ‘sleeper’ prospect ahead of NFL draft
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Winston Salem Journal
- Analysis: Expect college football to take slow road back
- Wake Forest’s John Currie, Dave Clawson, during videoconference with fans, discuss prospects of football season
- Two international WSSU track athletes who couldn’t make it home are staying with a teammate and her family
Raleigh News and Observer
- NC State names Ben Broussard as Wolfpack Club’s new executive director
- How high could UNC’s Charlie Heck and Jason Strowbridge be drafted?
Columbia The State
- Next in line? Tee Higgins ready to join group of Clemson receivers excelling in NFL
- The key traits that might separate DJ Wonnum as an NFL draft prospect
- The final word on Isaiah Simmons and Clemson’s NFL Draft hopefuls
- Clemson ‘unicorn’ Isaiah Simmons describes best way to use him in NFL
Berkeley’s ‘Goliath’ transformed into NFL prospect after transferring to S.C. State Charleston Post and Courier
For Lincoln Riley, there is no veteran QB presence for the first time since 2012 Tulsa World
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Chicago Tribune
- What will tonight’s virtual NFL draft be like? Go inside how teams will make their picks, what the Bears’ setup is — and how you can still boo Roger Goodell.
- 34 years of Air Jordans: A look at the sneaker institution that Michael Jordan and Nike built
The East Carolinian
- COVID-19 effects on professional sports are vast
- NASCAR drivers are using online racing technology during quarantine
Ed Hardin: Baseball in the minors is facing huge changes Winston Salem Journal
Charlotte Observer
- A guide to everything you need to know for the Carolina Panthers in the 2020 NFL draft
- I asked 8 former Panthers who they’d draft No. 7 overall. Here’s what they said.
- Charlotte first? Darlington? Texas? What we know about NASCAR’s return to racing
Pro sports leagues hitting SC to reboot coronavirus-interrupted seasons Charleston Post and Courier
New York Times
- N.F.L. Draft 2020: Joe Burrow Goes First … Then What?
- For Joe Burrow, the N.F.L. Draft Offers a Path Home
- How N.F.L. Draft Day Began the End of My 22-Year Football Career
- Notre Dame Coach Muffet McGraw Retiring After 33 Seasons, 2 Titles
- Red Sox’ Alex Cora Suspended Through 2020 in Sign-Stealing Scandal
- Giants and Jets Scream for Help With Early N.F.L. Draft Picks
- The Soccer Club as Sovereign State
- Woods and Mickelson Set for a Charity Match With Brady and Manning
- Gronkowski’s Amazing ‘Retirement’: W.W.E., CBD and Talk of a Return
- Why Phil Jackson Needs ‘The Last Dance’
Washington Post
- The NFL draft is an overblown spectacle. Thank God it’s almost here.
- John Clayton’s final 2020 NFL mock draft: Three QBs in the top six
- Javon Kinlaw’s draft path took him from D.C. homelessness to rural Mississippi
- Cameras, microphones and 32 hats: How the NFL is trying to give players their draft moment
- Which teams consistently win the NFL draft? None of them.
- Learn from history, Redskins: Take Chase Young.
- Young’s draft prep has included boxing, cement buckets and advice from Markelle Fultz
- Five decades of sports, as seen through a camera lens
- Ron Rivera’s home draft room is ready to go, with his family and dogs there to help
- Every Redskins first-round pick since the merger, from Art Monk to Montez Sweat
- Rob Gronkowski and Tom Brady together again? That’s good on and off the field.
- Tom Brady cheers Rob Gronkowski trade
- Red Sox escape harsh punishment for sign stealing after MLB finds violations were limited
- NFLPA on contingency plans for 2020 season: ‘Everything is on the table’
- Another hurdle in MLB’s empty ballpark plan: How much to pay players
- South Dakota dirt-track race will go on despite the coronavirus, with crowd limited to 700
- A London man climbed Everest barefoot on the stairs in his apartment building
- Knicks owner James Dolan recovered from coronavirus, set to donate plasma
- Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson to be joined by Tom Brady and Peyton Manning in charity match
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Virtual draft makes NFL teams potential targets for hackers
- Record on line for Georgia Bulldogs in NFL draft
- In a world starved for sports, the NFL draft is a feast
- Documented proof that Jordan’s still the G.O.A.T (sorry LeBron)
- Glavine hopes baseball will return this year ‘in a very different way’
- Tiger, Mickelson, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning to play in TV golf match
- Glavine, Klesko look forward to rebroadcast of Braves’ 1995 World Series
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