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
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- 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
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- 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)
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
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
College football’s return takes big step forward with oversight committee ruling YAHOO!
Charlotte Observer
- Panthers Tracks: Inside the 8.5-hour headache of removing Jerry Richardson’s statue
- The Charlotte Knights’ ballpark is opening for batting practice, food and disc golf
- Hornets alpha males Jordan and Rozier: ‘Probably would have fought’ as Bulls
- NASCAR drivers drop helmet designer over racially insensitive tweets
NHL announces training camps can open July 10 Raleigh News and Observer
Winston Salem Journal
- Ed Hardin: A long day in the making left NASCAR with no choice but to do the right thing
- Ed Hardin: NASCAR’s Bubba Wallace sends strong messages from a lonely perspective
- Truist converts naming rights to Charlotte’s minor-league baseball park
Truex ends 2020 winless skid with victory at Martinsville Fayetteville Observer
Column: NASCAR’s decision to ban Confederate flag was speedy, unexpected after Bubba Wallace spoke out Hampton Roads Daily Press
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- NASCAR tackles the embarrassment of the Confederate flag
- Braves take four college players in shortened MLB draft
- To back up playoff talk, Hawks need a lot more from their wings
- Falcons’ social-justice program is positioned for growth
- Analyzing Atlanta United’s group in MLS tournament
- Matt Ryan — a darn good player, and not a bad citizen
New York Times
Washington Post
- From the Civil War to the football field, we have been celebrating the wrong values
- Higher, faster … tone-deafer? The IOC needs to wake up on its protest policies.
- An oral history of the U.S. women’s national team’s march to the 2019 World Cup title
- U.S. Soccer repeals policy requiring players to stand for anthem, issues apology
- Baseball owners, given a chance to get out of a jam, keep balking
- Nationals go with quartet of college arms on second day of MLB draft
- NHL training camps to open July 10; Capitals start small-group workouts
- From the D.C. area to the NHL, hockey grapples with racism
- Quiet, please? The PGA returns with birdies aplenty at muted, fanless Colonial.
- PGA Tour golfers pause at 8:46 a.m. in George Floyd’s memory
- Red Sox acknowledge racism at Fenway Park ‘is real,’ promise action
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