Burleson Selected In Second Round Of 2020 MLB Draft; Cards’ Day 2 Draft haul includes 2-way player…Five from The American Selected in the 2020 Major League Baseball Draft…Former Pirate Harold Varner shares lead after 1st round of Charles Schwab Challenge…ECU experiences big surge for 2020 football season ticket sales…ECU announces furloughs after $20 million loss in revenue…College football’s return takes big step forward with oversight committee ruling…Wake Forest’s football game against Notre Dame in Charlotte staying put; Matt James, former Wake Forest football player, picked as first black man for ‘The Bachelor’…NHL announces training camps can open July 10…NASCAR tackles the embarrassment of the Confederate flag

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• Burleson Selected In Second Round Of 2020 MLB Draft
• Classic Rewind Preview: ECU Travels To Tulsa For C-USA Championship (’08)
• A Message From Coach Houston
• Burleson Named CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-America

Cards’ Day 2 Draft haul includes 2-way player MLB

Meet the 2020 draft picks for the Cardinals St Louis Post-Dispatch

12 Picks We Loved From Day 2 Of The 2020 MLB Draft Baseball America

East Lincoln product Burleson hits big time, taken in MLB Draft Gaston Gazette

Varner Leads as Golf Makes Its Return in Pin-Drop Silence New York Times

WNCT 9

• Former Pirate Harold Varner shares lead after 1st round of Charles Schwab Challenge
• Cardinals select ECU’s Alec Burleson in 2nd round of MLB Draft
• BURLESON named CoSIDA first-team Academic All-America

WITN 7

• ECU’s Burleson selected 70th overall in MLB Draft
• ECU women’s basketball: AAC announces schedule pairings
• ECU placing some employees on furloughs

Rivals

• ECU’s Alec Burleson Picked in the Second Round by St. Louis
• South Carolina LB Cruz Temple Commits to East Carolina

247 Sports

• ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: WR Jonathan Johnson
• ECU flamethrower Gavin Williams goes undrafted, will return
• ECU signee Koen Moreno drafted in the fifth round by the Cubs
• ECU’s Alec Burleson drafted 70th overall by the Cardinals
• Mike Houston shares message with ECU fans about 2020 season
• ECU experiences big surge for 2020 football season ticket sales
• ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: TE Zech Byrd

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• Cardinals pick another Pirate in Burleson
• ECU announces furloughs after $20 million loss in revenue

ECU furloughs more than 100 employees due to revenue losses from coronavirus pandemic Raleigh News and Observer 

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Five from The American Selected in the 2020 Major League Baseball Draft
• Four American Athletic Conference Baseball and Softball Players Earn CoSIDA Academic All-America Accolades

UC’s Joey Wiemer selected by Brewers with 121st pick in the 2020 MLB Draft Cincinnati Enquirer

Tampa Bay Times

• USF pitcher Carson Ragsdale drafted by Phillies in fourth round
• USF football clear of coronavirus so far, Jeff Scott says

Tulane’s Hudson Haskin selected in the second round by the Orioles WVUE

George Floyd death prompts former UCF, Evans player Brandon Alexander to call for change | Commentary Orlando Sentinel

Temple receives commitment from receiver Jaden Coffen of Washington, D.C. Philadelphia Inquirer

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• Memphis football had zero positive COVID-19 tests, will begin voluntary workouts early next week
• Memphis football schedules two-year series with Mississippi State for 2028, 2029

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

NC State’s Nick Swiney taken in MLB Draft by Giants; 5 other NC prospects go as well Raleigh News and Observer

Winston Salem Journal

• Wake Forest’s football game against Notre Dame in Charlotte staying put
• Matt James, former Wake Forest football player, picked as first black man for ‘The Bachelor’
• Wake Forest signee gets drafted by Reds, but no current Deacons drafted in rest of MLB draft
• App Trail: App State reliever Jack Hartman selected in the MLB Draft
• Steve Forbes forging relationships with new Wake Forest players as best he can

Fayetteville Observer

• N.C. State’s Bailey 13th overall pick in MLB draft
• Giants select second N.C. State star in baseball draft

U.Va’s Charles Snowden experiences D.C. protests firsthand, continues his emergence as leader on and off the field Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Columbia The State

• Clemson changes name of Calhoun Honors College after pushback
• Where Mark Kingston and the Gamecocks stand coming off historic MLB draft
• ‘We’re about to change the world.’ How Clemson football’s peaceful protest came about
• South Carolina’s 2021 recruiting class has only 7 commits. Why that’s not a big deal