American Athletic Conference expected to announce football plans by Wednesday…Baseball Earns Fifth-Straight ABCA Academic Excellence Award…ECU’s new defensive installation coming along early in camp…Former ECU & NFL lineman Tootie Robbins dies of COVID-19 at 62…‘If you’re Black, you had to say something’: Harold Varner III on his path to the tour, celebrity friends, and uncomfortable truth…Golf analyst John Maginnes will help call PGA Championship this week from his basement in Greensboro …Source: SMU bumping its season opener at Texas State up a week to Aug. 29 …UConn football season canceled amid coronavirus concerns …NCAA keeps SoCon, The Citadel waiting on fate of FCS playoffs…Limited Big 12 football schedule further endangers USF opener at Texas…Auburn, UNC to lose multi-million dollar payouts after canceled Chick-fil-A Kickoff …Holliday, Lambert eager to see linebackers work in full pads…If the NCAA shutters fall sports, might the Power 5 play anyway?…Why Clemson’s IPTAY is asking fans to think twice about ticket, donation refunds…Coffee is for closers: Carolina Hurricanes don’t need extra games to end Rangers’ year

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Preseason Camp Audio Feature
Mike Houston Audio Bonesville.net

Former NFL lineman Tootie Robbins dies of COVID-19 at 62 USA Today

Former Big Red lineman ‘Tootie’ Robbins dies St Louis Post Dispatch

‘If you’re Black, you had to say something’: Harold Varner III on his path to the tour, celebrity friends, and uncomfortable truths Golf Digest

Baseball Earns Fifth-Straight ABCA Academic Excellence Award ecupirates.com

Tropical Storm Isaias leaves Greenville with minor damages The East Carolinian

Wilmington-area runners Chitty, Obremski commit to ECU Wilmington Star-News

First Monday: Coach Houston Recaps The Day’s Events Rivals

247 Sports

• ECU’s new defensive installation coming along early in camp
• Snead giving defensive backs fits
• Powell making plays on the back-end for ECU in practice
• Mike Houston feels comfortable five deep in the RB room

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• ECU earns award for fifth straight year
• QBs getting extensive action; Alabama transfer slowed by hamstring

Falcons player profile: QB Kurt Benkert SB Nation

Golf analyst John Maginnes will help call PGA Championship this week from his basement in Greensboro Winston Salem Journal

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference expected to announce football plans by Wednesday Philadelphia Inquirer

Source: SMU bumping its season opener at Texas State up a week to Aug. 29 Dallas Morning News

Sports Talk Florida

• South Florida and Central Florida start the 2020 season scrambling to fill out their schedules.
• South Florida is likely to lose their game with Texas to UTEP. Big 12 allows 10 games that includes one nonconference foe.
• Take you out to a fall sports ballgame? Not until the state signs off Cincinnati Enquirer

Tampa Bay Times

• Limited Big 12 football schedule further endangers USF opener at Texas
• Five position battles to follow as USF football plans for its return Friday
• USF football gets pledge from Tallahassee speedster

UCF QB McKenzie Milton, mom post positive recovery updates Orlando Sentinel

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Auburn, UNC to lose multi-million dollar payouts after canceled Chick-fil-A Kickoff  Raleigh News and Observer

Ed Hardin: COVID-19 concerns more widespread than merely contaminating a football team Winston Salem Journal

A football season unlike any other begins for NC State WRAL SportsFan

Sports Illustrated

• No Opt Outs For All-In Wolfpack as Preseason Camp Begins
• Lincoln Riley: The Perfect Coach for 2020

A look at possible winners, losers as ACC teams adjust to football schedules  Fayetteville Observer

“My concern grew more and more.” Former Hokie Caleb Farley claims in report Tech players weren’t tested after traveling, gathered without masks. Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Old Dominion starting football practice despite holes in 2020 schedule Hampton Roads Daily Press

Holliday, Lambert eager to see linebackers work in full pads Huntington Herald-Dispatch

Answers to schedule shuffling questions could come soon for WVU and Marshall West Virginia MetroNews

Hartford Courant

• UConn football season canceled amid coronavirus concerns
• Mike Anthony: UConn football should cancel its 2020 season, an act of independence and freedom

UConn Cancels Football Season Because of Coronavirus New York Times

As Charlotte 49ers begin training camp, mental health is on coach Will Healy’s mind  Charlotte Observer

Charleston Post Courier

• NCAA keeps SoCon, The Citadel waiting on fate of FCS playoffs
• Sapakoff: USC-Clemson football options? Yorktown deck, Bill Murray as ref
• Coastal Carolina quarterback battle heats up as football practices start

Columbia The State

• Why Clemson’s IPTAY is asking fans to think twice about ticket, donation refunds
• A ‘whirlwind’ from the start: The Hilinski family’s experience watching Ryan’s Year 1
• If schedule strength factors into new SEC plan, what it could mean for Gamecocks
• South Carolina, SEC preseason work scales down. First day of official practice delayed

TCU football coach apologizes for using racial slur ‘that is, in any context, unacceptable’ Washington Post

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• If the NCAA shutters fall sports, might the Power 5 play anyway?
• Pac-12 players using power to demand justice, safety, compensation
• 5 questions as Georgia Tech starts preseason camp

Alabama football may be on the hook for more than $3.5M for canceled non-conference games USA Today