Harold Varner III giving back to the game thanks to his AJGA tournament at Tanglewood Park…Mike Young Loses Assistant Coach Antwon Jackson to East Carolina…ECU Athletics presents Classic Rewind versus Southern Miss (2009)…As pandemic persists, could tailgating be a template for safe social partying?…Marshall football moving forward despite COVID-19 increases…Georgia, Clemson to receive at least $4 million for 2021 game in Charlotte …2020 Murray State-Georgia State game moved up to Thursday, Sept. 3…Boise State to cut baseball, swimming and dive teams due to COVID-19-related budget cuts…NFL will play Black national anthem ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ before each Week 1 game…FedEx calls on Redskins to change name following investors’ demands on sponsors…If Hornets get wish with second NBA bubble, free agency creates as big a hurdle as COVID
Linkmeister Note: No Update Saturday July 4th (Independence Day)
Pirate Press: ECU Headlines
Bonesville.net
Classic Rewind Preview: ECU Hosts Southern Miss (2009) ecupirates.com
Harold Varner III giving back to the game thanks to his AJGA tournament at Tanglewood Park Winston Salem Journal
Report: Mike Young Loses Assistant Coach Antwon Jackson to East Carolina Sports Illustrated
ECU Football 2020 Player Expectations: S Shawn Dourseau 247 Sports
Around the American Athletic Conference
American Volleyball Coaches Sponsoring AVCA Diversity Awards Candidate American Athletic Conference
American Athletic Conference Preseason Rankings: College Football News Preview 2020 College Football News
UCF football players call for controversial professor to be fired Click Orlando
As pandemic persists, could tailgating be a template for safe social partying? Tampa Bay Times
BLM on Tigers’ helmets? Good — because police violence can touch Black players | Weathersbee Memphis Commercial Appeal
New SMU assistant golf coach Brandon Wilkins apologizes for past homophobic, transphobic tweets Dallas Morning News
Guerin Emig: What’s this about TU in a realigned conference with OU, OSU? Tulsa World
Former Navy football coach Joe Battaglia recounts ‘surreal’ month with birth of first child, apartment fire Annapolis Capital
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Huntington Herald-Dispatch
- Marshall football moving forward despite COVID-19 increases
- Marshall football preview, Game 11: Reynolds emerges as Charlotte’s leader
Raleigh News and Observer
- George Williams’ lawyer said coach was told to take 50% pay cut or leave St. Aug’s
- Duke’s Joanne P. McCallie resigns as women’s basketball coach
- NWSL first professional US sports league to return to play. NC Courage leads the pack
Winston Salem Journal
- How Triad, N.C. university athletics departments stand on athletes returning, waivers and releasing COVID-19 statistics
- Wake Forest’s football team has almost all of its players back in Winston-Salem, nearing completion of three-phase process
- While Chris Lanzilli still has decision to make, rest of Wake Forest’s baseball team will return
N.C. State lands versatile New Jersey running back Demie Sumo Fayetteville Observer
Ricky Rahne improvises to prepare Old Dominion for football despite coronavirus concerns Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Clemson baseball coach explains why recruiting from home ‘not the same’ Charleston Post Courier
Coveted Virginia defender tight with Gamecocks: ‘I consider them family’
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- The ultimate ultimatum: Wear a mask or no college football
- 3 Georgia Tech athletes, 3 staff members test positive for COVID-19
- Georgia, Clemson to earn at least $4 million for 2021 matchup in Charlotte
- Georgia State moves date of 2020 football season opener
FBSchedules
- Georgia, Clemson to receive at least $4 million for 2021 game in Charlotte
- 2020 Murray State-Georgia State game moved up to Thursday, Sept. 3
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Charlotte Observer
- If Hornets get wish with second NBA bubble, free agency creates as big a hurdle as COVID
- Panthers Tracks: When does NFL training camp start? Key dates to keep an eye on
Boise State to cut baseball, swimming and dive teams due to COVID-19-related budget cuts Idaho Statesman
Even if there’s a college football season, Rutgers vs. Monmouth opener might not happen. Here’s why NJ.com
NFL will play Black national anthem ‘Lift Every Voice and Sing’ before each Week 1 game Fayetteville Observer
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- How the coronavirus changed the Hawks’ draft preparation, offseason schedule
- NFL may play Black national anthem before national anthem
- Hawks may get to keep playing after all
New York Times
Washington Post
- In a 60-game MLB season, one thing is certain: It’s going to get late early
- The Nationals are starting summer training camp. Here’s what you need to know.
- Coming to Nationals Park and elsewhere on Friday: Baseball like you’ve never seen it before
- FedEx calls on Redskins to change name following investors’ demands on sponsors
- Unless Daniel Snyder changes Redskins’ name, RFK site is off the table, officials say
- Daniel Snyder now has many reasons to change the team name. So why keep it?
- For TV networks missing sports, there’s one unthinkable scenario: Losing the NFL season
- Georgetown’s Patrick Ewing is symptom-free after ‘scary’ coronavirus battle
- Wimbledon is elegant and nutty and lovely and other words belonging to no other event
- NFL plans for black national anthem to be played at Week 1 games
- High school sports are uncertain for fall, and the clock is ticking
- The Lakers and Bucks, disrupted NBA contenders, don’t want to hear any asterisk talk
- North Carolina Courage overruns upstart Washington Spirit, 2-0, in NWSL Challenge Cup
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