Pirate Press: ECU Headlines
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ECU football gets ESPN Thursday night primetime game Fayetteville Observer
The East Carolinian
- Pirate Nation Gives sets $3.3 million goal
- ECU baseball will face UNCW on March 17
- Women’s basketball looks to grow next season after unique 2020-2021
- ECU completes third series sweep of season
- Chancellor Philip Rogers takes the helm, steers Pirate Nation
- ECU’s Homecoming Captain of the Ship voting now open
- May commencement ceremonies to be held in-person
WNCT 9
- Dates finalized for two ECU home football games
- ECU men’s golf ties for 11th at Myrtle Beach tournament
Pirates sweep weekly AAC honors WITN 7
247 Sports
- A wild card at each position entering ECU’s spring camp
- Georgia pass-rusher earns his second offer from ECU
Harrell finally getting first spring practice at ECU Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
Around the American Athletic Conference
American Athletic Conference
- Houston’s Quentin Grimes Earns Two More All-America Nods
- SMU’s Meissner, Houston’s Normann Win American Golf Player of the Week Honors Following Top-10 Showings
- American Announces Two Updates to 2021 Football Schedule
Wichita State, Drake tangle in First Four matchup Sports Illustrated
Indianapolis Star
- Breaking down NCAA tournament’s First Four at Purdue’s Mackey Arena
- March Madness: Kelvin Sampson will coach at IU’s Assembly Hall again
Six Cincinnati Bearcats basketball players enter transfer portal in 3-day span MSN
Cincinnati Bearcats freshman guard Mike Saunders Jr. to enter transfer portal Cincinnati Enquirer
USF Football: Way-too-early 2021 game-by-game predictions Saturday Blitz
NOLA.com
- New Tulane defensive coordinator Chris Hamtpon confronting third-down woes head on
- Tulane draws Illinois State in first round of WNIT
Miami Heat’s Precious Achiuwa still applying lessons from Penny Hardaway in the NBA Memphis Commercial Appeal
A drive to the airport with Kelvin Sampson inspired Dennis Gates’… Houston Chronicle
‘I’m grateful for everything’: Asbjorn Midtgaard credits WSU for breakout season Wichita Eagle
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
Raleigh News and Observer
- Cherokees to open North Carolina’s 1st sports betting venues in time for March Madness
- Two weeks in Texas: NC State’s trip to the NIT is a wager on its future
- No shootaround. No dunk contest. UNC basketball is in for a different NCAA tournament.
- Can UNC beat Wisconsin by dominating inside? One Badger star is worried.
- N.C. State runs away with CCU’s Hackler Championship; individual title determined late
- UNC’s Roy Williams on NCAA experience ‘it isn’t exactly Maui’
Winston Salem Journal
- Aaron McFarling: Stakes soar in this version of ACC-Big Ten challenge
- Last chance! Play our NCAA men’s basketball contest
- Wake Forest quarterback Sam Hartman trying to put his last game in rear-view mirror
- David Teel: Exploring the ACC’s future with new commissioner Jim Phillips
- Appalachian State, more than two decades later, finds the right pieces and the right time
- John Clay: Rick Pitino is proof positive that if you can coach and win, you can survive
- Life in the bubble: Boredom, isolation pose new challenges at unusual NCAA Tournament
Norfolk Virginian Pilot
- Norfolk State hopes to ride mid-major experience to NCAA win against Appalachian State
- Our Greatest Hits: Norfolk State’s Robert Jones arrived as a men’s basketball coach the hard way
- Norfolk State appearance in the First Four offers possible financial rewards and longer NCAA tournament stay
Charleston Post Courier
- With Earl Grant gone to Boston College, CofC begins search for new coach
- College Basketball: CSU’s Fleming in transfer portal; CofC hires search firm
- Gamecock coach Frank Martin’s future up in the air 1 week after USC season ended
- Pandemic deprives Gamecocks of playing home games in NCAA Tournament
Fayetteville Observer
- Coach K feels ‘a little bit empty’ after missing NCAA Tournament
- Duke misses Big Dance for first time since 1995
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Winston Salem Journal
- Ravens lineman arrested in Virginia for property destruction
- Springer, Semien add veteran presence to Jays’ young core
- Braves have eyes on the prize after just missing out in 2020
- Ross thinks Chicago Cubs lineup will rebound in full season
- White Sox set sights on championship following breakout year
- D-backs stand pat, ready to show rough 2020 was a fluke
- AL champion Rays motivated to make another World Series run
- Angels aim to end 6-year playoff drought for Trout, Pujols
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