East Carolina Tabs Adler Augustin Head Volleyball Coach…ECU lays out fall return plan with new website, town hall…ECU faculty member makes $1.8 million donation…Transfers added as Pirates progress with plans…AAC will limit marching bands, spirit squads during football season …Former Navy football standout Jacob Springer transferring to Ole Miss…Montgomery setting example for COVID-19 precautions as players return to campus…Three SC minor league baseball teams among 15 plaintiffs in coronavirus lawsuit…New York City Marathon Canceled Because of Pandemic…America can’t act like a team, and it might cost us the return of sports
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East Carolina Tabs Adler Augustin Head Volleyball Coach ecupirates.com
Augustin named new volleyball coach at East Carolina WNCT 9
WITN 7
- ECU tabs Adler Augustin new head volleyball coach
- ECU lays out fall return plan with new website, town hall
- ECU faculty member makes $1.8 million donation
247 Sports
- ECU Player Outlook: How much better can Jayden Gardner get?
- What makes Oklahoma QBU
- ECU’s entire 2020 class formally added to roster
- ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: CB Nigel Knott
Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
- Roster updated as Pirates progress with plans
- Transfers added as Pirates progress with plans
- ECU names volleyball coach
Around the American Athletic Conference
Cincinnati Enquirer
- Cincinnati Bearcats AD John Cunningham addresses athletics budget, 2020 football season
- AAC will limit marching bands, spirit squads during football season
University of Cincinnati takes Marge Schott’s name off its baseball stadium Washington Post
UCF reloading receiving corps with 2021 recruiting class Orlando Sentinel
AAC will limit marching bands, spirit squads during football season Memphis Commercial Appeal
SMU commits, targets on Dave Campbell’s offense super teams 247 Sports
Half-full or half-empty? Either way, limiting college football stadiums to 50% capacity is a big blow for athletic departments Dallas Morning News
TU football: Montgomery setting example for COVID-19 precautions as players return to campus Tulsa World
Annapolis Capital
- Navy football notebook: Wide receiver Chance Warren may audition at quarterback
- Former Navy football standout Jacob Springer transferring to Ole Miss
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Fayetteville Observer
- Duke’s Mayo takes sponsor role for Charlotte football games
- South View’s Emery Simmons set for bigger role at UNC
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
- Chuck Landon: WVU officials handled controversy well
- Marshall coaches, AD take pay cuts during pandemic
Columbia The State
- Is one part of USC’s offense ready to be ‘the best’ of Will Muschamp era? He thinks so
- South Carolina has picked up two O-linemen in the past week. Could he be a third?
College football players, long less powerful than coaches, finally have their voices heard Washington Post
This College Football Team Had No Coronavirus Cases at First. Then It Shut Down. New York Times
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Facing revenue shortfall, Georgia Tech implementing furloughs
- Colleges already showing they ‘aren’t up to the task’ of keeping athletes safe
In effort to improve sports teams, University of Delaware pays more than most Delaware Online
Appy State men’s soccer, tennis among college teams cut because of coronavirus pandemic Johnson City Press
UConn will eliminate women’s rowing team, men’s tennis, swimming and diving, cross country programs in budget cuts approved by Board of Trustees Hartford Courant
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Charlotte Observer
- Christian McCaffrey, Shaq Thompson among Panthers investing in community police relations
- Charlotte MLS team name announcement no longer expected this month
Hurricanes’ Rod Brind’Amour again bypassed by Hockey Hall of Fame Raleigh News and Observer
Charleston Post Courier
- Three SC minor league baseball teams among 15 plaintiffs in coronavirus lawsuit
- Rough return for Charleston’s Shelby Rogers at Credit One Bank Invitational
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Alex Anthopoulos talks Braves’ plans, Hamels’ health and preparing for short season
- Even in a short season, can MLB go the distance?
New York Times
Washington Post
- What we see in a flag or a noose or a black racer is telling. We can do better.
- How Bubba Wallace ended up assigned to a garage stall containing a noose
- Wallace says noose incident ‘makes the hair on the back of your neck stand up’
- America can’t act like a team, and it might cost us the return of sports
- Will MLB’s health and safety plan hold up once baseball returns? It will be a tough task.
- MLB set to return in July, ending months-long coronavirus shutdown
- Federal government threatens to pull WADA funding if it refuses reforms
- Redskins to remove George Preston Marshall’s name from all team material
- Jack Del Rio creates a stir with Twitter activity; Redskins have no comment
- Brooks Koepka withdraws from PGA Tour event after caddie tests positive for coronavirus
- Tom Brady practices with Bucs teammates despite coronavirus warning from players union
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