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Greg Vacek's Daily Web RoundupFriday, August 28, 2020

August 28, 2020 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

 

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Bonesville.net

  • VIEW FROM THE EAST
    Start of ECU football season altered again
  • Preseason Football Audio Feature
    Jon Gilbert Audio
  • Preseason Football Audio Feature
    Mike Houston Audio
  • Football Recruiting
    Florida produces another quarterback gem for ECU

ecupirates.com

  • Season Opener vs. Marshall Postponed
  • Berkowitz Selected For Mentorship Program

The East Carolinian

  • Season opener against Marshall to be rescheduled
  • ECU Chancellor search to resume in September
  • ECU identifies COVID-19 clusters in Scott Residence Hall, sorority

USA Today

  • East Carolina-Marshall football game postponed due to COVID-19 concerns
  • American Athletic Conference announces schedule shifts

East Carolina football postpones season opener against Marshall because of coronavirus Raleigh News and Observer

WNCT 9

  • American Athletic Conference shuffles Pirate football schedule further
  • ECU IDs clusters of COVID-19 cases in Scott Hall and within Sigma Sigma Sigma Sorority

ECU football season opener pushed to Sept. 26 Wilson Daily Times

WITN 7

  • ECU football postpones season opener with Marshall
  • ECU identifies two more COVID-19 clusters

ECU postpones season opener against Marshall WCTI 12

Marshall-ECU football game on Sept. 12 postponed due to COVID-19 concerns Charleston Gazette-Mail

Marshall’s Sept. 12 game at East Carolina postponed due to coronavirus Times West Virginia

Rivals

  • Jon Gilbert and Mike Houston Talk Game Changes & Covid19
  • ECU – Marshall Game Postponed

247 Sports

  • Jon Gilbert explains decision to postpone Marshall game
  • Sept. 19 game a possibility for ECU, but not a sure thing
  • AAC shifts two ECU league games from Thursday to Saturday
  • ECU’s opener versus Marshall postponed
  • Three storylines to follow with ECU’s 2021 recruiting class

ECU opener versus Marshall postponed Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

ECU season opener against Marshall postponed WRAL SportsFan

Seahawks Schedule Tryouts with QB Kyle Sloter, WR Justin Hardy Sports Illustrated

Gardner Minshew is the Jags’ QB of the present — and future NFL

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

  • American Announces Date Changes to 2020 Football Schedule
  • American Athletic Conference Announces 2020-21 SAAC Executive Board
  • Memphis’ Gainwell Named AP Preseason All-America
  • American Athletic Conference Postpones Soccer and Volleyball Competition to Spring 2021

UC football adds Army to 2020 football schedule; AAC moves date of ECU home game Cincinnati Enquirer

UC football reschedules home game against ECU to Nov. 14 The News-Record

UCF football games against ECU, Memphis pushed back Orlando Sentinel

Tampa Bay Times

  • USF to face Notre Dame on Sept. 19, will play season opener with no fans
  • USF calls off football practice to join national race discussions after Jacob Blake shooting
  • A walk of faith and a waiver: How USF’s latest quarterback derby arose
  • Clearwater receiver Cardrece Mobley pledges to USF

No fans in the stands for The Citadel’s football game at South Florida Charleston Post Courier

247 Sports

  • AAC shifts two ECU league games from Thursday to Saturday
  • Date changes for SMU’s games against Memphis, Tulane
  • OFFICIAL: USF and Notre Dame schedule three-game series

Temple OL Vincent Picozzi is back in action after season-ending knee injury Philadelphia Inquirer

Memphis Commercial Appeal

  • How Memphis football reacted to Blake shooting, NBA postponements
  • AAC postpones soccer, volleyball. Decision on cross country is pending.
  •  AAC announces date changes for 3 Memphis football games

Football notebook: Tulane games move to FM dial after five years on AM. NOLA.com

TU women sign former BTW standout Wyvette Mayberry Tulsa World

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Herd-ECU Sept. 12 game postponed to later date due to COVID-19 pandemic Huntington Herald-Dispatch

Raleigh News and Observer

  • Former UNC players upset by Eric Trump’s use of doctored ‘Roy Williams dancing’ video
  • NC Central University reports COVID-19 cluster among members of its football team
  • Athletics rally at Duke, organized by Nolan Smith, calls for social justice, change

Colleges with highest COVID-19 counts are mostly in South, data show. Two are in NC Miami Herald

Appalachian State calls off football practice, puts time toward conversations about racial and social justice Winston Salem Journal

Fayetteville Observer

  • NC State opener pushed back because of cluster
  • North Carolina’s top football prospects for 2021: 31-40
  • North Carolina’s top football prospects for 2021: 41-50
  • Pine Forest DT Potts picks Charlotte 49ers

NBA protest a proud moment for USC great Alex English, whose nephew was shot by police Columbia The State

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

Raleigh News and Observer

  • Bubba Wallace addresses NASCAR racing amid social unrest over Jacob Blake shooting
  • Why the Panthers are so invested in Omar Bayless — and which WRs will make the roster
  • Who should the Hornets take third in the NBA draft? ESPN’s Jay Bilas gives us his take
  • How the Carolina Panthers feel about social unrest in the wake of Jacob Blake shooting

Winston Salem Journal

  • Greensboro legend Bob McAdoo reflects on protests then and now and the NBA’s leading role
  • Hard ‘N Fast: Jimmie Johnson gets one more shot at Daytona

Atlanta Journal Constitution

  • Again, NBA has led on issues of social justice
  • Hard not to get carried away by these resilient Braves
  • Falcons to lean heavily on the 2020 rookie class

New York Times

  • With Walkouts, a New High Bar for Protests in Sports Is Set
  • One N.B.A. Team Walked Out. A Generation of Athletes Followed.
  • Kristine Anigwe’s Role on a Celebrated Franchise: ‘Stay Ready’
  • Masks in Place, the Tour de France Puts On a Brave Face

Washington Post

  • The walls are closing in on Daniel Snyder, and his tone-deaf response made things worse
  • Facing new allegations, Washington issued two statements and left some confused
  • Attorneys for former Washington NFL employees demand league investigate on its own
  • Lewd videos, more harassment allegations paint disturbing picture
  • Most sports leagues pause with second day of protests, some more unified than others
  • NBA players agree to resume season in Disney bubble
  • WNBA postpones second day of games, set to resume Friday
  • Trump dismisses NBA protests after Jared Kushner says players have ‘luxury’ to ‘take a night off’
  • Athletes embrace the protest movement by stepping off the field and speaking up
  • Nationals-Phillies game postponed amid growing sports protest movement
  • Several NFL teams cancel practices as part of protest over Jacob Blake shooting

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