Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Monday Press Conference
Audio: Mike Houston Bonesville.net

Coach Houston’s Weekly Press Conference Quotes ecupirates.com

The East Carolinian

• Tristen Newton projected to be valuable for ECU basketball
• Taniyah Thompson looks to have a strong season
• Mike Houston’s former player launches NFL career

East Carolina Pirates: A look at No. 7 Cincinnati Bearcats football’s next opponent Cincinnati Enquirer

Cincinnati’s History Versus East Carolina Football SB Nation

No. 7 Cincinnati offers ECU chance at breakthrough North State Journal

1-on-1 with Mike Houston leading into matchup with (7) Cincinnati  WNCT 9

ECU Football: No. 7 Cincinnati Game Week Coverage

ECU Braces For Another Stiff Test at (7)Cincinnati Rivals.com

247 Sports

• Pirates trying to spoil Bearcats’ playoff hopes
• ECU vs. Cincinnati: Five Bearcats to know
• Development of these three positions the key to ECU’s rebuild
• Tulane film provides plenty of lessons for ECU football team

East Carolina vs. Cincinnati odds, predictions: Proven computer model releases spreads for Friday’s AAC matchup Sportsline

East Carolina vs Cincinnati picks, predictions November 13 Covers

Texans signing linebacker Kendall Futrell Houston Chronicle

Texans add 2 defensive players to practice squad Texans Wire

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• American Announces Two Changes to 2020 Football Schedule
• Memphis’ White, Tulane’s Johnson, USF’s Shrader Take Weekly Football Honors

American Athletic Conference Power Rankings going into week 11 Jacksonville Daily News

College Football Playoff: Making case for undefeated non-Power 5 teams Saturday Blitz

Galina: BYU and Cincinnati are proving their caliber as sneaky College Football Playoff candidates pff

Cincinnati Enquirer

• Paul Daugherty: College Football doesn’t want the UC Bearcats of the world in its Playoff
• Doc’s Morning Line: Could UC Bearcats football benefit from an 8-team playoff payoff?

Cincinnati-Tulsa moved back again NBC Sports

National Post

• No. 19 SMU visits Tulsa with sense of urgency
• Tulane looks to keep rolling vs. Army

USF’s Spencer Shrader named AAC special teams player of the week Tampa Bay Times

Orlando Sentinel

• UCF football kickoff time set for Cincinnati
• UCF looking for younger defensive players to step up in absence of key veterans

Temple football players learn what it’s like coming back from COVID-19  Philadelphia Inquirer

Streak-buster? Tulane is a rare favorite against a ranked team NOLA.com

Preview: Army vs. Tulane WGNO

Dallas Morning News

• How SMU football has implemented rigid rules to travel safely during the COVID-19 pandemic
• SMU football thought it could upgrade over WR Tyler Page. Then, everyone realized how good he is.

Apologetic University of Houston coach Dana Holgorsen asks for patience after lopsided loss WLAX

Tigers-Navy football game postponed due to COVID-19 Memphis Commercial Appeal

Tulsa World

• Bill Haisten: On Day 50 of the Rick Dickson ride, ‘a new energy’ at TU
• TU’s Saturday game against SMU expected to be played

Houston Chronicle

• For Kelvin Sampson and UH, same goal but different schedule
• Apologetic University of Houston coach Dana Holgorsen asks for patience after lopsided loss

Navy has second consecutive game postponed due to covid-19 Washington Post

Navy-Memphis football game postponed due to ongoing coronavirus issues at Naval Academy Annapolis Capital

Wichita State finalizes opponents, dates for 2020-21 non-conference basketball schedule  Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

50 years later…We still remember Marshall Parthenon

Equipment manager for 1970 Marshall team fights guilt for not being plane West Virginia MetroNews

Raleigh News and Observer

• The ACC basketball schedule is out but still not finalized … 2 weeks before tipoff
• Cameron with no Crazies? That’s reality for Duke basketball this season.
• UNC’s 2020-21 basketball schedule is out. Here are the games you won’t want to miss
• Duke’s 2020-21 basketball schedule is out. Here are the games you won’t want to miss
• Duke’s Moore on playing in Cameron without fans
• NC State’s 2020-21 basketball schedule is out. Here are games you won’t want to miss

Charlotte 49ers furloughing athletics coaches, employees; details of revenue plunge Charlotte Observer

Winston Salem Journal

• ‘People like to count us out’: Wake Forest to visit Chapel Hill to face favored North Carolina
• Three questions with Duke’s Wendell Moore
• College basketball: Check out the preseason AP Top 25

Norfolk Virginian Pilot

• Old Dominion vs. Norfolk State basketball game is “a good thing” for now. But don’t expect it to continue after 2022-23 season.
• Gearing up to play in a pandemic, U.Va.’s men’s basketball players looking forward to “interesting” season

Fayetteville Observer

• ACC basketball schedule released: It’s different, but it still ends with Duke vs. UNC
• The untold story of Tuffy the ‘wolf’ and the family that raised the N.C. State mascots

Charleston Post Courier

• Clemson’s Trevor Lawrence reflects on COVID-19 isolation, return to field, NFL future
• Will Muschamp’s job status at South Carolina: Separating fact from fiction

Columbia The State

• ‘I would take a bullet for him’: Gamecocks rally around Muschamp amid job speculation
• How South Carolina is balancing QB reps this week, what factors will win the job
• Clemson’s DJ Uiagalelei was ‘not healthy’ the last two weeks, Dabo says

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Georgia football hoping Missouri game doesn’t get postponed
• Georgia Tech coaches enthusiastic about Jeff Sims’ future