ECU, ODU Renew Regional Series With Six Games…ECU Swim & Dive creates online petition to save program…Colleges look at thrifty scheduling models for sports…Title IX major factor for colleges looking at sports cuts……“It blindsided me”: Discontinued sports at Furman University leave its Colorado athletes stunned…Medical Advisory Group hopes to provide reopening guidance to AAC…AAC commissioner Mike Aresco ‘cautiously optimistic’ of football season starting on time…Memphis athletics says football players can return to campus on June 6…The Carolina Hurricanes are the biggest losers of the NHL’s new pandemic playoff plan…NASCAR race at Charlotte postponed due to rain from Tropical Storm Bertha…Baseball star Mike Trout could lose $28 million under proposal from owners
Pirate Press: ECU Headlines
Recruiting Update: Added thumbnail sketch on Lakewood (SC) HS Class of 2021 DB JAMES WRIGHT Bonesville.net
ecupirates.com
Colleges look at thrifty scheduling models for sports The Business Journals
The East Carolinian
- Medical Advisory Group hopes to provide reopening guidance to AAC
- Women’s Golf and Cross Country academic success recognized
- ECU signs up for six more games with ODU
Old Dominion, East Carolina announce six-game football series beginning in 2022 Hampton Roads Daily Press
Fayetteville Observer
- ECU-ODU announce six-game future football series
- ECU’s Ryan Davis, a Pine Forest alum, named track & field All-American
ECU, ODU Renew Regional Series With Six Games WNCT 9
WITN 7
- ECU, ODU renew regional football series with six games
- ECU Swim & Dive teams raise money for program
- ECU Swim & Dive creates online petition to save program
- ECU & Vidant decontaminating PPE to reuse
ODU-ECU agree to six-game series in football WAVY
ODU, ECU agree to 6-game football series beginning in 2022 WTKR
East Carolina’s Alec Burleson Named First Team All-American Rivals
247 Sports
Title IX major factor for colleges looking at sports cuts ABC
Gilbert: Cutting 4 ECU athletic teams ‘extremely disappointing’ North State Journal
Air Force, defense highlight Liberty Bowl’s 1990s All-Decade Team Memphis Commercial Appeal
Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
Around the American Athletic Conference
American Athletic Conference
- A Joint Statement on Behalf of the Football Bowl Subdivision Conferences, along with CBS Sports, ESPN, FOX Sports and Their Affiliated Networks
- Four Players from The American Named Collegiate Baseball All-Americans
- American Indoor Track and Field Student-Athletes Earn 2020 USTFCCCA All-America Accolades
AAC commissioner Mike Aresco ‘cautiously optimistic’ of football season starting on time Tampa Bay Times
Outlook bleak for colleges if no fans attend games at UC, Miami Cincinnati Enquirer
Temple agrees to four-game football series with UConn Philadelphia Inquirer
Temple announces football ticket assurance plan for 2020 season Delaware County Daily Times
Tulane football player arrested in Zachary after ‘disturbance’ at Waffle House NOLA.com
‘What do we do if and when people are sick?’: SMU coach Tim Jankovich talks AAC meetings, thoughts on returning to play Dallas Morning News
Memphis Commercial Appeal
- Memphis athletics says football players can return to campus on June 6
- What Memphis AD Laird Veatch is focusing on and why he refuses to speculate on the future
Another Navy football player, Tony Brown Jr., enters NCAA transfer portal Annapolis Capital
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
“It blindsided me”: Discontinued sports at Furman University leave its Colorado athletes stunned The Denver Post
Orlando bowl games could be adjusted to the coronavirus pandemic Orlando Sentinel
If college football limits fans this fall, who gets left out? ‘I don’t know where we’ll end up’ YAHOO!
MAC cuts travel rosters, hotel stays for football in 2020 The Morning Sun
The Latest: Kansas athletics facing imposing budget woes Odessa American
Charleston Post Courier
- One Citadel model for football amid coronavirus: 3,000 to 4,000 fans in stands
- Former Gamecock basketball player scores again with PROOF alcohol ice cream
- Mount Pleasant resident gets his big break in broadcasting as voice of cornhole on ESPN
College move-in is a big milestone. New Gamecocks face added wrinkles during pandemic Columbia The State
Pandemic spurs basketball player’s transfer to UGA Atlanta Journal Constitution
Tim Benz: Don’t underestimate what the loss of college football could really mean Triblive.com
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Tens of billions of dollars on the line as pro and college sports look to return, with or without fans Philadelphia Inquirer
College football gatekeepers walking fine line on return to normalcy The Guam Daily Post
NASCAR Cup race in Charlotte postponed until Thursday Fayetteville Observer
Kyle Busch returns to form in truck loss to Chase Elliott Winston Salem Journal
Charlotte Observer
- Why doesn’t Cam Newton have a new job, and what comes next for former Panthers QB?
- NASCAR race at Charlotte postponed due to rain from Tropical Storm Bertha
- The Carolina Hurricanes are the biggest losers of the NHL’s new pandemic playoff plan
Carolina captain Jordan Staal says ‘it’s karma’ that Canes could play the Rangers Raleigh News and Observer
WAVY
- NHL monitoring situation before choosing where to play games
- AP sources: Players want more games, no more salary cuts
New York Times
- With or Without the Say of Players, College Football Moves Toward a Return
- A Chess Prodigy’s Return to Health Brings Cheer to the Game
- The N.H.L. Is Coming Back, Pending a Few (Dozen) Questions
- Basketball Hall of Fame Event Will Be Pushed to 2021, Colangelo Says
- When Will the Major Sports Leagues Return?
- N.W.S.L. Plans a One-Month Season: 25 Games in Utah
- The N.B.A. May Return Too Soon
- N.H.L. Announces Plan to Return Straight Into the Playoffs
- Sweaty Scrums? How Rugby May Adapt to Return to Play
Washington Post
- Scott Turner and Dwayne Haskins are Redskins’ key duo. So far, the coach likes what he sees.
- Redskins players voice anger, sadness over George Floyd’s death
- NFL owners set to consider fourth-and-15 proposal, modified replay system for preseason
- Minor leagues have major issues, and baseball’s future will feel the impact
- Athletics won’t pay minor leaguers for rest of 2020 season
- Time working against MLB union as it contemplates critical next step to save 2020 season
- Union ‘extremely disappointed’ by MLB’s economic proposal
- For WNBA, return is more about ‘data’ than ‘dates’ — but a plan is starting to take shape
- Bradley Beal on how he went from ‘trash’ a few years ago to one of the NBA’s best
- John Wall looks to help Ward 8 families with rent assistance
- Missing the excitement of a sports stadium crowd? In Japan, there’s an app for that.
- Facing potentially bleak finances, NFL counts on fans in stands
- Basketball Hall of Fame moves enshrinement ceremony to 2021
Atlanta Journal Constitution
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