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Pirates’ holiday pause extended by virus Bonesville.net
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- ECU’s Taniya Thompson named AAC Player of the Week
- ECU men’s basketball game at Wichita State on Dec. 30 postponed
Tony Petersen hired as offensive coordinator for Illinois football Herald & Review
ECU – Wichita State Game Postponed Due to Covid19 Rivals.com
247 Sports
- Bret Bielema hires Tony Petersen as offensive coordinator
- ECU’s game at Wichita State postponed due to COVID-19
- ASU earns pledge from North Carolina OL transfer Triston Miller
- True Freshman Report: OT Walt Stribling
- Where each ECU assistant stands in the 2021 recruiter rankings
Next game postponed by COVID cases Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
Around the American Athletic Conference
American Athletic Conference
- East Carolina-Wichita State Game Scheduled for Dec. 30 Postponed
- East Carolina’s Thompson, Temple’s Clinton Named Women’s Basketball Week Five Winners
- Temple-Tulane Women’s Basketball Game Postponed; Two-Game Series Scheduled For Jan. 30-31
- Wichita State’s Etienne, USF’s Murphy Earn MBB Weekly Honors
- All-America Honors for American Athletic Conference Football Standouts
COVID-19 postpones Wichita State’s Wednesday AAC home opener; replacement found Wichita Eagle
Cincinnati Enquirer
- No opt-outs for Bearcats, who appreciate opportunity to play in a major bowl game
- Georgia coach on UC receivers: ‘Outside of Alabama, is as good as we’ve faced’
Georgia faces another explosive QB in Cincinnati’s Desmond Ridder Atlanta Journal Constitution
Temple looks to end streak vs SMU Associated Press
After dreadful junior season, SMU forward Ethan Chargois is back with a different look in his eyes Dallas Morning News
Memphis Commercial Appeal
- Tigers’ Dykes to return for 2021 season
- Memphis’ search for solution to offensive woes continues
- Memphis’ DeAndre Williams on his leadership efforts
Tulsa World
- Riding three-game win streak, TU hosts No. 5 Houston
- TU seniors to decide whether to return in 2021
- Guerin Emig: With business of college football never clearer, players who opt out of bowls never more justified
- TU linebacker Zaven Collins earns All-America recognition
Up next for No. 5 Houston men’s basketball: at Tulsa Houston Chronicle
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Raleigh News and Observer
- UNC will be without 2 best running backs in Orange Bowl. Here’s who replaces them
- Duke vs Pittsburgh basketball game postponed due to COVID-19
- Duke got a long holiday break. Blue Devils are ready to finally play again, minus 1 star
Bielema Hires Appalachian State OC Tony Petersen to Lead Illini Offense Sports Illustrated
Winston Salem Journal
- Why did the Duke women’s basketball team end its season? Here are some answers
- Pitt-Duke ACC men’s basketball game postponed
- Who are Appalachian State’s best from the 2020 football season? And how does that plunger fit in?
- Wisconsin QB Graham Mertz hopes bowl game is next step in his development
Charleston Post Courier
- Clemson safety will ‘coach up’ teammates while sitting out first half of Sugar Bowl
- Sapakoff: Dabo could ‘run for governor of Michigan’ after his Ohio State ranking
- Former Clemson defensive coordinator could be on Beamer’s list at South Carolina
- Gamecocks add cornerback to recruiting class, Clemson gets commitment from wide receiver
- With Skalski back, Clemson’s defense rolls into Sugar Bowl against Ohio State
Columbia The State
- How Mike Bobo’s Gamecock schemes and Oklahoma’s offense aren’t all that far apart
- Ohio State QB says one call was the difference in last year’s loss to Clemson
Washington Post
- College Football Playoff still beholden to age-old question: Whom did you beat?
- Maryland football loses multiple starters, backup quarterback in offseason departures
Atlanta Journal Constitution
- Smart on UGA’s COVID year: It was tough to ‘stay sane’
- Photos: Georgia practice ahead of Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl
The Associated Press
- Music City Bowl between Iowa and Missouri canceled
- CFP matchups: What will decide Tide-Irish, Tigers-Buckeyes?
- Authorities: Utah’s Ty Jordan died in accidental shooting
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Washington cuts Dwayne Haskins. Either former ODU star Taylor Heinicke or Alex Smith will face Eagles. Norfolk Virginian Pilot
Washington Post
- Washington releases Dwayne Haskins, ending first-round pick’s brief tenure with team
- Taylor Heinicke postponed exams for Washington. Now, he could be its starting quarterback.
- NFC East playoff scenarios, explained
- The blame for Washington’s uninspired, inexplicable loss goes far beyond just Dwayne Haskins
- Dwayne Haskins wasted his latest shot at redemption
- Bills punctuate AFC East supremacy with thrashing of Patriots
- Hail or Fail: Newly anointed captain Chase Young has another huge game in loss to Panthers
- Down at halftime on road, Terps dig deep to beat No. 6 Wisconsin for first Big Ten win
Winston Salem Journal
- John Romano: Sorry, Rays, but trading Blake Snell is not how defending champs behave
- Rams quarterback Jared Goff has thumb surgery and could miss finale
- The pandemic is proving that ‘next man up’ has always been a lie in the NFL
- Why did the Duke women’s basketball team end its season? Here are some answers
- Today in sports history: Joe Namath leads NY Jets past Oakland Raiders for 1968 AFL championship
Charlotte Observer
- No fans will be allowed to attend Carolina Panthers’ season finale vs. Saints
- Analysis: Panthers win complicates their future. Why it was worth not tanking for.
- Panthers can still get third pick. Here are the NFL draft scenarios entering Week 17
Hurricanes sign Seth Jarvis to three-year, entry-level contract Raleigh News and Observer
New York Times
- K.C. Jones Never Got His Due in Boston. Race Played a Part.
- Deep Within Relief Bill, Horse Racing Gets New Tools to Clean Up
- Our Altered View of Sports After 2020
- Saying Goodbye to the Knuckleball, and Its Master
- What We Learned From Week 16 of the N.F.L. Season
- A State Skirmish Over N.C.A.A. Amateurism Rules Has Quickly Become a National Battle
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