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Bonesville.net Gameday Rewind (2014 ECU v UNC-Chapel Hill)
- BAILEY: Big win means bigger opportunity
- MYATT: Numbers better for Smith and staff
- VACEK: Your personal guide to split loyalties
- Kevin’s Keys to the Game
Classic Rewind Preview: ECU Hosts No. 25 UNC (2014) ecupirates.com
247 Sports
- ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: K Jake Verity
- ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: WR Audie Omotosho
B.C. Lions: Sitting out might have supercharged Jordan Williams’ football career The Province
Former Pirate top CFL pick Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
Jack Britt grad is top pick in Canadian football draft Fayetteville Observer
ESPN names Raiders WR Zay Jones as potential trade or cut candidate before 2020 season USA Today
Around the American Athletic Conference
College football offseason preview: American Athletic Conference, Part I ESPN
Orlando Sentinel
- UCF LB Eric Mitchell says he misses his brothers on football team; isolation takes a toll
- Mike Bianchi: 10 ways colleges should cut bloated athletic spending during pandemic
247 Sports
- UCF with best odds in Florida to make 2021 playoffs, FPI says
- BREAKING: SMU lands Duncanville safety Jadarius Thursby
NCAA announces some guidelines on what it would take to begin college sports again | Mike Jensen Philadelphia Inquirer
Tulane men’s basketball team lands another transfer in Nebraska forward Kevin Cross NOLA.com
Big day continues for SMU, as three-star Kimball running back Brandon Epton Jr. commits to Mustangs Dallas Morning News
Memphis Commercial Appeal
- White Station DB Gregory Rubin commits to Memphis football
- Penny Hardaway on G League’s new, more aggressive strategy: ‘It’s almost like tampering’
Guerin Emig: We’re thinking positive about college football’s return, not as much about a uniform approach Tulsa World
UH RB Patrick Carr signs with Seahawks as undrafted free agent Houston Chronicle
Navy football alum Tyler Tidwell battling ALS: ‘No family should ever have to go through this’ Annapolis Capital
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Raleigh News and Observer
- Wake Forest faces a long road back to ACC respectability under Steve Forbes
- Josh Hall isn’t heading to NC State after all. Here are his big plans.
- Women’s soccer claim of unequal pay tossed, can argue travel
Winston Salem Journal
- Steve Forbes says ‘No. 1 recruiting responsibility’ is to keep players who have entered transfer portal
- Wake Forest’s direction under Steve Forbes: Winning games and playing gritty, grimy, tough and together on defense
- What does Wake Forest’s Steve Forbes want to hear from current Deacons? ‘I can’t say no to Coach, man. I want to play for him.’
Fayetteville Observer
- Forbes: Fired up to make Wake Forest better
- Campbell offers seniors in spring sports chance to return
U.Va. adds grad transfer QB Keytaon Thompson from Mississippi State Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
32 NFL players most likely to be cut or traded after the 2020 NFL draft ESPN
After surviving wreck and draft snub, Panthers’ Troy Pride Jr. has something to prove Charlotte Observer
Will Ferrell crashes Seattle Seahawks’ virtual meeting, pretends to be Greg Olsen Fayetteville Observer
Michael Bunn, found unconscious from carbon monoxide poisoning, drawing support from Carolina Thunderbirds hockey fans and others Winston Salem Journal
Columbia The State
- Five things to know about NASCAR’s return to Darlington Raceway
- Who will play in this year’s RBC Heritage? The field could be strongest in years
Charleston Post and Courier
- Remembering pro wrestling’s past: Blackjack Mulligan was a character for the ages
- NFL star Carlos Dunlap feeding 500 families through Lowcountry Food Bank donation
- Charleston Battery owner hopeful USL soccer season will return this summer
New York Times
- U.S. Women’s Soccer Team’s Equal Pay Demands Are Dismissed by Judge
- Olympic Gymnast Recalls Emotional Abuse ‘So Twisted That I Thought It Couldn’t Be Real’
- The World’s Stadiums Become a Lifeline
- Wild Ideas to Bring Back Sports Might Say More About Cities Than Leagues
- Fauci, Leading Fight Against Coronavirus, Misses Baseball, Too
- David Najem Has Been Reading a Lot, but He’d Rather Be Playing Soccer
Washington Post
- The Alex Smith story sheds light on the private drive that separates athletes from the rest of us
- With ‘warlike’ injury, Alex Smith received rare clearance to rehab at military facility
- After the Cardinals aced the offseason, ‘the moment is now’ for Kyler Murray
- Judge rules against U.S. women’s national soccer team in equal pay lawsuit
- Some see ban of Laurie Hernandez’s coach as progress for USA Gymnastics but question the timetable
- For the owner and trainer of Kentucky Derby favorite, postponement is part of the game
- On Derby-less weekend, missing my Kentucky home
- Two fewer minutes of thrills, and a missing week of dreams
- This farm supplied mint for the Kentucky Derby’s famous drink. Now it’s stuck with two tons of it.
- NBA postpones draft lottery, leaving rebuilding teams in limbo
- Sports leagues really want to play games again. They just can’t figure out how.
- With Will Ferrell, the Seahawks’ Zoom meetings are more fun than your Zoom meetings
- Rob Gronkowski says he was joking about having the Bucs’ playbook four weeks ago
- Tennessee quarterback details planned suicide attempt, battle with depression
- Nationals Manager Dave Martinez hasn’t given up hope baseball will be back this season
- LeBron James to pay tribute to high school seniors in television special
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Some plans for return of sports more realistic than others
- With Jordan elsewhere, the ’94 Hawks missed their chance to dance
- Falcons’ Grady Jarrett keeps on pedaling through uncertain times
- Cashless stadiums ‘a necessity’ in future, Mercedes-Benz Stadium exec says
- NBA delaying draft lottery, combine
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