Pirate Press: ECU Headlines
Preseason Football Audio Feature
Mike Houston Audio Bonesville.net
ecupirates.com
The East Carolinian
- ECU Football season opener closed to public
- Men’s basketball takes swing at softball
- McNeill reflects on recruitment amidst COVID-19
- Campus officials talk furloughs, student refunds
WNCT 9
- Pirates get back to work with football practice
- UCF picked to win 2020 American title; Pirates ranked 10th in preseason poll
ECU football season opener to be played without fans WCTI 12
ECU football’s season opener against UCF closed to public WRAL
Tootie Robbins, NFL lineman with Cardinals and Packers, dies Texarkana Gazette
247 Sports
- ECU to open season versus UCF without fans inside Dowdy-Ficklen
- Eligibility ruling creates exciting prospect for young ECU team
- Holton Ahlers: A breakout first-team All-AAC QB?
Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
Around the American Athletic Conference
Luke Fickell getting that needed anxiety ahead of Bearcats football season-opener Cincinnati Enquirer
USF to receive no financial guarantee for its football trips to Notre Dame Tampa Bay Times
Orlando Sentinel
- UCF CB Tay Gowan cites daughter’s health as reason for opting out, declares for NFL draft
- UCF football loses 10 players who opted out due to COVID-19
- UCF announces football gameday procedures
Temple football finally gets some scrimmaging in Philadelphia Inquirer
247 Sports
- Temple navigating restrictions in adding non-conference games
- Memphis opens as three-score favorite versus Arkansas State
- Podcast: Savion Red commits to SMU, OL/DL preview
American Athletic Conference Preseason Media Poll Predicts UCF to Win Division For 3rd Straight Year Local 24 News
Memphis welcomes Arkansas State in season opener Lindy’s Sports
Memphis Commercial Appeal
- Tigers’ White on being excited for start of new season
- Tigers’ Clark on stepping into starting role against Arkansas State
Six to start? Influx of impact grad transfers buoys Tulane’s hopes for 2020 NOLA.com
Dallas Morning News
- How SMU football is trying to limit risk of COVID-19 during practices, lead-up to season’s start
- SMU’s Feron Hunt considers sitting out season to protest social injustice: ‘If I have to put basketball down, I’d do that’
Navy football boasts solid one-two punch at fullback with Jamale Carothers and Nelson Smith Annapolis Capital
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Raleigh News and Observer
- UNC depth chart breakdown – defensive line: Fox lurking from every direction
- Mark Gottfried suing NC State for alleged missed buyout payments
- NC State depth chart breakdown – defensive line: ‘Big 0’ Dawkins will get his chance
- Duke depth chart breakdown – defensive line: Blue Devils will lean on four veterans
- NC State depth chart breakdown – linebackers: Why the group is healthier, deeper
Winston Salem Journal
- Wake Forest football to play Notre Dame at Truist Field. Fans won’t be in the stands.
- Jamie Newman opting out of season with Georgia; Wake Forest alum will start preparing for NFL draft
- Watch now: Wake Forest soccer teams gearing up for ‘complicated’ fall seasons
- App State won’t have fans at home athletics events in September
- App State announces active COVID-19 cluster in the wrestling program
Sports Foundation is moving Wake Forest vs. Notre Dame from Charlotte to Winston-Salem Business Journals
College Football Rule Changes: Quicker Replays, Zeros on Jerseys and Social Distancing New York Times
Hokies earn eligibility waiver for RB Raheem Blackshear after appeal to NCAA, find out Sept. 19 game against U.Va. will be on ABC Norfolk Virginian Pilot
CCU set to play late-night showdown against Kansas on national TV Charleston Post Courier
Columbia The State
- Clemson tight end forgives coach who used racial slur: ‘I’m happy he’s my coach’
- 2 hometown Gamecocks plan to be at USC an extra season after NCAA change
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Washington Post
- Va. Tech football sees increase in coronavirus cases as season opener approaches
- With John Thompson’s death, college basketball’s Black royalty lost its king
- Before ‘Hoya Paranoia,’ this was the John Thompson I knew
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Raleigh News and Observer
- Panthers owner’s reasons for releasing Cam Newton include COVID-19, salary
- Tom Seaver, heart and mighty arm of Miracle Mets, dies at 75
Baseball great Tom Seaver, nearly a Brave, dies at 75 Atlanta Journal Constitution
New York Times
- Tom Seaver, Pitcher Who Led ‘Miracle Mets’ to Glory, Dies at 75
- Solving a Pandemic Puzzle: Inside the Return of Sports to a Power 5 Program
- To Undo a Mess, the Jaguars Trust in the People Who Made It
- Lawmakers Ask N.F.L. About Race Norms Used in Concussion Settlement
- Serena Williams Wins Her First Match in the U.S. Open
Washington Post
- Tom Seaver, Hall of Fame pitcher for New York’s ‘Miracle Mets’ of ’69, dies at 75
- Vikings’ Kirk Cousins explains his ‘if I die, I die’ comment about the coronavirus
- Trea Turner is all grown up and developing into one of the best shortstops in baseball
- The last, best scapegoat for Daniel Snyder is himself
- Dwayne Haskins named Washington Football Team’s starting quarterback ahead of season opener
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