ECU planning to cut some sports to balance athletic budget; As ECU prepares for cuts, Jeff Compher is still getting paid…NASCAR Jack Man and ECU Football alum Dustin Lineback goes one-on-one with WITN Sports…For NASCAR, sticking close to its roots might be smart even after the coronavirus pandemic…Pirate pair makes APR progress…USC’s highest salaried administrators and sports coaches will take a 10% pay cut …Radford, VMI adopting cost-cutting moves …N.F.L. Team Owners Enhance Rooney Rule, but Stop Short of Incentives…Belmont Stakes is set for June 20, becoming the first race in the Triple Crown series…Nationals will celebrate World Series title Sunday with a virtual ring ceremony

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

NASCAR Jack Man and ECU Football alum Dustin Lineback goes one-on-one with WITN Sports WITN 7

ECU planning to cut some sports to balance athletic budget Fayetteville Observer

Dominant Statesville D-lineman Shuford signs with East Carolina Statesville Record & Landmark

247 Sports

• ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: LB Bruce Bivens
• As ECU prepares for cuts, Jeff Compher is still getting paid

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• Pirate pair makes APR progress
• ‘Parallel tracks’ crossing for Pirates; another meeting Thursday

Around the American Athletic Conference

Souleymane Doumbia, 7-footer from Navarro College, tweets UC Bearcats offered him Cincinnati Enquirer

USF football lands another Australian punter Tampa Bay Times

UCF guard Darin Green Jr. returns to school after exploring NBA Orlando Sentinel

Dallas Morning News

• Source: SMU basketball schedules home-and-home series with Arizona State
• SMU’s Feron Hunt wanted to prove himself in NBA draft process, but the coronavirus pandemic has made that difficult

Penny Hardaway’s workouts with NBA prospect R.J. Hampton defy coronavirus rules, Memphis says Memphis Commercial Appeal

Season Preview: Biggest must-win games for Memphis in 2020 247 Sports

Tulsa World

• Guerin-teed it was quite a week: The college football spoil that must go immediately
• Guerin Emig: College athletes’ mental health as vulnerable as their physical condition during pandemic

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

USC’s highest salaried administrators and sports coaches will take a 10% pay cut  Columbia The State

Charleston Post Courier

• USC top coaches, administrators taking 10% pay cuts to aid with coronavirus cash crunch
• Four-star linebacker Carter commits to Clemson
• Gamecocks’ latest freshman phenom likes comparisons to USC’s greatest players

Radford, VMI adopting cost-cutting moves Roanoke Times

The Associated Press

• The Latest: Three South Carolina coaches taking salary cuts
• Spouse of broadcaster killed in Louisiana plane crash sues
• Football still a possibility at big 3 Cal State schools
• Taulia Tagovailoa transferring from Alabama to Maryland

UCLA makes it official: Martin Jarmond is next athletic director LA Times

Colleges are cutting sports programs because of coronavirus cash-flow problems | Here’s the list NJ.com

AP Exclusive: Power Five spend big on lobbying Congress Times Free Press

Mack Brown Unplugged: UNC coach on wearing masks, winning the Natty, Sam Howell’s praying Raleigh News and Observer

Winston Salem Journal

• Wake Forest notebook: Steve Forbes on filling out the schedule, taking an international trip and declining Bruce Pearl’s invite to paint his chest for a Tennessee women’s game
• Former Wake Forest guard Chaundee Brown transfers to Michigan

Keatts rounds out Wolfpack coaching staff Fayetteville Observer

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• 6 years after ATV accident, Georgia Tech’s Jaylend Ratliffe nears the finish line
• National federation issues guidance on return to sports, calls football ‘higher risk’