REWIND: East Carolina Beats Stanford With Defense…Havelock’s Avery Jones transfers from UNC to ECU…ECU Adds Transfer D-End Chris Willis From Appalachian State…Cincinnati lands Arkansas WR transfer Jordan Jones…Liberty Football: Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina set for 2023, 2024…Temple adds home and home football series with Coastal Carolina…Phyllis George, Trailblazing Sportscaster, Is Dead at 70…NASCAR drivers will be racing for the first time since March 8: ‘It’s going to be odd’…Proposed baseball rules: no mascots, bat boys, high-fives or spitting
Pirate Press: ECU Headlines
Recruiting class of 2020 updates Bonesville.net
ecupirates.com
- Classic Rewind: ECU Wins 1995 Liberty Bowl, 19-13
- 1995 St. Jude Liberty Bowl – East Carolina 19, Stanford 13 …
LIBERTY BOWL: ECU 19, STANFORD 13 Washington Post
LIBERTY BOWL : East Carolina Beats Stanford With Defense … LA Times
East Carolina Classic Rewind-1995 Liberty Bowl airs on-line on Saturday WNCT 9
Havelock’s Avery Jones transfers from UNC to ECU WITN 7
ECU Adds Transfer D-End Chris Willis From Appalachian State Rivals
247 Sports
- Pirates add another grad transfer in DE Chris Willis
- UNC OL transfer Avery Jones heading to ECU
- ECU Football 2020 Expectations: LB Myles Berry
- ECU Football 2020 Expectations: RB Trace Christian
Today in Central Florida history: Minshew Mania is born in Mississippi Orlando Sentinel
Hometown Pirate Futrell reflects on graduate status Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
Around the American Athletic Conference
Tony Yates: Former University of Cincinnati basketball player and coach dies at 82 WXIX
247 Sports
- Cincinnati lands Arkansas WR transfer Jordan Jones
- Memphis among favorites for three-star CB Tyrell Raby
- Mitchell Brinkman talks USF offense, getting his MBA and more
Northern Illinois tight end transferring to USF Tampa Bay Times
Q&A With New USF Football Tight End Mitchell Brinkman SB Nation
Temple adds home and home football series with Coastal Carolina Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple, Coastal Carolina schedule football series for 2024, 2026 FBSchedules.com
Dallas Morning News
- ‘I think there will be football this season’: SMU AD Rick Hart details return to sports, COVID-19 impact on department
- SMU linebacker Richard Moore announces return after being granted 6th year of eligibility
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Thinking positive: How will restarted sports handle the inevitable coronavirus cases? Raleigh News and Observer
Norfolk Virginian Pilot
- 0-for-pros: As we look for “Our Greatest Hits,” a reminder of Hampton Roads’ major league misses
- Our Greatest Hits: Norfolk’s loss was Washington’s gain when the Montreal Expos made a move in 2004
Sapakoff: Rating ACC and SEC football coaches from 1-28; Dabo still on top Charleston Post Courier
Liberty Football: Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina set for 2023, 2024 Augusta Free Press
BC’s Martin Jarmond close to becoming next athletic director at UCLA, according to report Boston Globe
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Winston Salem Journal
- John Dell: ‘The Last Dance’ has been a great trip down memory lane for this lifelong Bulls fan
- Clarence Gaines Jr., Winston-Salem native, had front-row seat for Chicago Bulls’ dynasty as a scout
Charlotte Observer
- Real Heroes 400 preview: Who will win, how to watch, Darlington Raceway info
- Sports fan new to NASCAR? Here’s what you need to know about the sport for Sunday.
- NASCAR drivers will be racing for the first time since March 8: ‘It’s going to be odd’
- Ryan Newman feels like he attended his own funeral. What if he won Darlington?
One year out, PGA Championship planning for record crowds at Ocean Course Charleston Post Courier
New York Times
- Can Sports Help Heal a Country? Some Fans Don’t Buy the Emotional Pleas
- Phyllis George, Trailblazing Sportscaster, Is Dead at 70
- N.F.L. Owners Will Review Incentives to Boost Racial Diversity
- Bob Watson, Baseball’s First Black General Manager, Dies at 74
- The Paralympics Got Postponed. A Retired Champion Got an Idea.
- M.L.B.’s Efforts to Return to the Field Could Take the Game Back to 1994
- The Bundesliga Is Back. So Why Isn’t Your League?
- The Biggest Weekend of Live Sports on TV in a Long Time
Washington Post
- NASCAR fires up its engines today, hoping to lead sports’ return from quarantine
- Ryan Newman, a ‘walking miracle,’ will be in field for NASCAR’s return at Darlington
- A viewer’s guide to all the sports on TV this weekend
- Preakness Stakes rescheduled for first Saturday in October
- ‘We’re going to run the Kentucky Derby in 2020,’ Churchill Downs president says
- MLB proposes safety plan that covers everything from sunflower seeds to lineup card exchanges
- After busy week, MLB has ‘hopeful’ plan for 2020 season but no guarantees it can be pulled off
- Baseball is a dream job, but it’s still a job with a workforce that needs protection
- Redskins great Dexter Manley in hospital after testing positive for coronavirus
- Redskins’ Cody Latimer arrested on assault and weapons charges
- Sports doc or Michael Jordan vanity project? ‘The Last Dance’ threads a tough needle.
- Pepper Rodgers never fit the football coach mold and didn’t try to. That made him great.
- NFL will allow teams to reopen facilities beginning next week
- Aaron Rodgers talks Jordan Love pick, says finishing career with Packers ‘may not be a reality’
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Chicago Tribune
- Michael McCaskey, former Chicago Bears chairman and grandson of George Halas, dies at 76
- Column: Michael Jordan singled me out about something I wrote during the Chicago Bulls’ championship run in 1991. Here’s why.
- Column: Has baseball reached its endgame? A hypothetical look back at the demise of our national pastime.
- How to become a billionaire: Grading Michael Jordan’s 15 most memorable commercials
- Michael Jordan severed a tendon in his right index finger with a cigar cutter after the 1997-98 season. How much did that influence his decision to retire?
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