Football Recruiting: COVID-19 opens door to FBS for Jason Shuford…CLASSIC REWIND: East Carolina steps up at gut-check time…UCF, Memphis, SMU among Sporting News Top 25 quarterbacks…Marshall Football to open facilities to players June 1…Hall of Fame basketball coach Eddie Sutton dies…NASCAR all alone on motorsports’ biggest day of racing; Coca-Cola 600’s 60th anniversary brings normalcy to North Carolina, but with an emptiness…NHL’s 24-team playoffs pit the Blackhawks against Oilers, creating an incredible turn of events for a team that faced long postseason odds…NBA confirms talks with Disney about resuming season in Orlando
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- Football Recruiting: COVID-19 opens door to FBS for Jason Shuford
- CLASSIC REWIND: East Carolina steps up at gut-check time
Classic Rewind: Fourth Quarter Surge Carries ECU Past Ohio, 37-20 ecupirates.com
Legendary college football coach and former Eskimos player tests positive for COVID-19 while in hospital Edmonton Sun
College Football Programs Are Quick To Fire Black Coaches Deadspin
ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: P Jonn Young 247 Sports
ECU Notes: University honors its outstanding educators Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
Around the American Athletic Conference
Tulane PA announcer Doug Moreau on what he misses about sports: ‘For this, I’m patient about it’ NOLA.com
College football’s top 25 quarterbacks for 2020 Sporting News
Shane Buechele among Sporting News Top 25 quarterbacks 247 Sports
College athletes wonder what fall sports will look like Houston Chronicle
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
As coronavirus takes toll on college baseball, LSU’s Paul Mainieri worries about the future Baton Rouge Advocate
SDS Roundtable: South Carolina’s over/under is 5.5 wins. How many games will the Gamecocks win in 2020? Saturday Down South
Marshall Football to open facilities to players June 1 WOWK
UNC offer ‘amps up’ recruiting attention for Westover’s D’Marco Dunn Fayetteville Observer
Devon Hunter works out in the “garage,” aims to please Hokies defensive coordinator Justin Hamilton Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Columbia The State
- Making sense of everything that came out about return of Gamecock athletes to campus
- The odd case of South Carolina’s defense in 2019: What some numbers fail to show
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Hall of Fame basketball coach Eddie Sutton dies
- Larger than life, Pepper Rodgers led inimitable tenure at Georgia Tech
- Player safety takes back seat as NCAA rushes to allow campus workouts
- All Georgia football, basketball players will be tested for coronavirus
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Charlotte Observer
- Coca-Cola 600’s 60th anniversary brings normalcy to North Carolina, but with an emptiness
- What does it take to win NASCAR’s longest race? Drivers share their Coca-Cola 600 advice
- NASCAR’s Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte: How to watch, track and race info, prediction
Eddie Sutton’s family confirms death of legendary OSU basketball coach Tulsa World
New York Times
- As Sports Begin Reopening, Athletes Weigh the Health Risks
- N.B.A. in Talks to Resume Season at Walt Disney World Resort
- Akim Aliu’s Account of Racism Pushes Hockey to Search Its Soul
Washington Post
- The Nationals’ World Series run was amazing at the time and has improved with age
- MLB, players’ union are working to salvage season, and the next two weeks are critical
- Germany’s Bundesliga soccer has a model for how sports can return amid coronavirus. The world is watching.
- U.S. Olympic officials resort to layoffs amid grim projections
- Danica Patrick finally led me to cover the Indianapolis 500. I shouldn’t have waited.
- What We’re Missing: With sheer spectacle and scope, the Indy 500 revs the engines of even car novices
- NASCAR continues suddenly jam-packed Cup Series slate with Coca-Cola 600
- NHL players approve 24-team playoff proposal, but many other hurdles remain
- Darts finds way in pandemic, airing by cell phone from players’ homes with a quirky charm
- In the market to rent a ballpark? The Pensacola Blue Wahoos can help.
Orlando Sentinel
- NBA confirms talks with Disney about resuming season in Orlando
- NASCAR all alone on motorsports’ biggest day of racing
NBA discusses playing all games at Disney complex in Florida Atlanta Journal Constitution
Chicago Tribune
- NHL’s 24-team playoffs pit the Blackhawks against Oilers, creating an incredible turn of events for a team that faced long postseason odds
- NBA says it is in discussions with Disney to resume the season in Florida in late July
- Column: With a loss of revenue and cuts to employees’ pay, trying to predict the Cubs’ future — financial and otherwise — is a guessing game
- Ryan Leaf, ESPN analyst and a former NFL quarterback, is arrested in California on a domestic battery charge
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