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Greg Vacek's Daily Web RoundupThursday, September 3, 2020

September 2, 2020 By Greg Vacek Leave a Comment

 

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Preseason Football Audio Feature
Mike Houston Audio
 Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

  • Pirates’ Opener vs. UCF Closed To Public
  • Pirate Club Perks Set To Launch

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’s season opener against UCF closed to public WITN 7

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)

  • No fans: First ECU game closed to the public
  • Pirates ‘good and bad’ in return; 23 still out

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

  • Georgia quarterback Jamie Newman opts out of season
  • UGA needs a QB. I know a QB who needs a team

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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