ECU baseball sweeps AAC weekly honors; AAC sweeps are rare, especially for non-ECU teams … English Earns Third Goalkeeper Of The Week Award … East Carolina primed to make another run at ending CWS drought … Baylor beatdown: Bears win title, hang 86-70 loss on Gonzaga … UNC finds Roy Williams’ replacement just down the bench. Hubert Davis inherits team after a fitful season…. Wofford opts out of remainder of Southern Conference spring football season … Jets make way for a QB with the No. 2 pick by trading Sam Darnold to the Panthers … After a hard year away, fans celebrate a measured return to Masters
Pirate Press: ECU Headlines
E. Carolina primed to make another run at ending CWS drought USA Today (AP)
ecupirates.com
- Bri Wood Earns First Team All-AAC Honors
- English Earns Third Goalkeeper Of The Week Award
- ECU Sweeps Weekly American Honors
The East Carolinian
- Home Sweet Homecoming: a look inside ECU’s homecoming planning amid a pandemic
- Vidant, Pitt County distributes COVID-19 vaccines throughout College Week
WNCT 9
- East Carolina primed to make another run at ending CWS drought
- ECU baseball sweeps AAC weekly honors
- ECU freshman, former D.H. Conley keeper earns third AAC honor of season
- Pirates senior earns first-team All-AAC honors in volleyball
WITN 7
- Greenville’s Maeve English earns third AAC Keeper of the Week award
- ECU baseball sweeps weekly AAC honors
- ECU senior Bri Wood earns First Team All-AAC volleyball honors
College Podcast: Recapping Week 7 Around NCAA Baseball Baseball America
247 Sports
- PODCAST: ECU opens conference play with a bang
- Where ECU is ranked in this week’s Top 25 polls: April 5
Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)
- WOODWARD: AAC sweeps are rare, especially for non-ECU teams
- ECU remains a leader in latest national rankings
- Pirates win in track, golf, soccer
Around the American Athletic Conference
American Athletic Conference
- East Carolina Sweeps Baseball Weekly Awards
- ECU, Houston, USF Earn Women’s Soccer Weekly Honors
- UCF’s McKenna Melville Named 2020 American Volleyball Player Of The Year
- Wichita State’s McKinney, USF’s Corrick Repeat As Softball Top Players In Week Eight
- First-Place Florida, Vanderbilt Win Weekly Lacrosse Accolades
Brannen’s attorney speaks out on saga with UC Cincinnati Enquirer
USF, Notre Dame to play football again in 2029, 2031 Tampa Bay Times
Young UCF cornerbacks forced to grow up fast after challenging 2020 season Orlando Sentinel
Temple coach Rod Carey starts spring practice with the task of sorting out the QB position Philadelphia Inquirer
Memphis Commercial Appeal
Wichita Eagle
- ‘I found peace’: WSU’s Billy Kennedy leans on faith to overcome Parkinson’s diagnosis
- Wichita State softball ready for No. 1 OU with top-25 ranking, record-setting offense
Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond
The Associated Press
- Baylor beatdown: Bears win title, hang 86-70 loss on Gonzaga
- Gonzaga’s pursuit of perfection ends in out-of-synch showing
- Analysis: Baylor’s strengths shine in title-game blowout
- Analysis: Baylor bullied the Bulldogs to win national title
- Tar Heels turn to assistant Davis as Williams’ successor
- Texas-Arlington promotes long-time assistant to head coach
- The game plan: Elite players find paths to pros besides NCAA
- Austin Peay names ex-Duke associate James to coach Governors
Baylor men’s basketball wins first national title, state’s second Houston Chronicle
Raleigh News and Observer
- Hubert Davis to make history as UNC’s first Black men’s basketball coach
- UNC promotes Hubert Davis into spotlight, showing once again that family comes first
- New UNC coach Hubert Davis receives high praise from rival coach in the Triangle
- Who is new UNC basketball coach Hubert Davis? Here’s what you should know about him.
- Roy Williams gave Hubert Davis his chance to head coach 8 years ago. Here is that story
College baseball rankings: Vanderbilt remains on top, Tennessee keeps climbing NCAA
College Football And Basketball Combined Rankings: Hoops and Helmets 2021 College Football News
Winston Salem Journal
- Baylor dominates Gonzaga for first men’s basketball title
- Recap: See key moments in the Gonzaga-Baylor championship basketball game
- Dom Amore: NCAA Tournament was a triumph for women’s basketball, but the hard work of fixing inequities must continue after cheering stops
- UNC finds Roy Williams’ replacement just down the bench. Hubert Davis inherits team after a fitful season.
Fayetteville Observer
- Hubert Davis hired as new UNC men’s basketball coach
- Hiring of Hubert Davis as UNC basketball coach became years in the making
- N.C. State ’22 target Curtis Neal is leading a dominant Hough defense
Charleston Post Courier
- Ngata, Ajou give peek of Clemson’s WR depth in spring game
- The Citadel marches on as Wofford joins Chattanooga on SoCon football opt-out list
- Wofford opts out of remainder of Southern Conference spring football season
- Myrtle Beach’s Luke Doty leads Gamecocks’ quarterback competition in spring
Columbia The State
Washington Post
- Baylor defeats Gonzaga, earns first men’s basketball national title
- Gonzaga-UCLA will be remembered for years. That might be bad news for Gonzaga-Baylor.
- Tara VanDerveer had a vision. Years later, Stanford again enjoys the view from the top.
- Arizona Coach Adia Barnes lost a game but won Final Four weekend
- Stanford defeats Arizona to win its first NCAA women’s title since 1992
- Women’s bracket and results
Nuggets and Briefs: National and Professional articles of interest
Winston Salem Journal
- Denver expected to replace Atlanta as MLB All-Star host city
- Clarence E. Hill Jr.: Jerry Jones and the Dallas Cowboys might wind up getting exactly what they paid for
- Today in sports history: April 6
Who is Ryan Odom, Utah State’s next head basketball coach? deseret news
Charlotte Observer
- Carolina Panthers trade for Jets quarterback Sam Darnold
- Carolina Panthers’ trade for QB Sam Darnold is so weird that it will actually work
- Panthers trade for Sam Darnold leaves long-term questions unanswered
- How the Sam Darnold trade affects the Panthers’ approach to the 2021 NFL draft
Charleston Post Courier
- PlayGolfMyrtleBeach.com World Amateur Handicap Championship begins taking entries April 7
- Shelby Rogers back at Volvo Car Open after a year away from green clay of home
- Madison Keys and the Volvo Car Open both making a comeback
New York Times
- Baylor Denies Gonzaga a Perfect Season, Winning N.C.A.A. Men’s Basketball Title
- The Rangers Play Baseball in Front of a Packed House
- Without Tiger Woods, the Masters Leaderboard Is a Blank Slate
- Europe Plunders Paris for Talent, and P.S.G. Pays the Price
- Coors Field in Denver Is Chosen as Replacement Host for 2021 All-Star Game
- The All-New Mets Follow an All-Too-Familiar Script in Loss
- Jets Trade Sam Darnold to Carolina Ahead of N.F.L. Draft
- In the Philippines, Everyone Knows Jordan Clarkson’s Name
- North Korea, citing the pandemic, will skip the Tokyo Olympics.
Washington Post
- Jets make way for a QB with the No. 2 pick by trading Sam Darnold to the Panthers
- Out of uncertainty comes a new Nationals motto: ‘Suck it up and deal with it’
- Nationals, without a handful of key players, prepare for their delayed season opener
- No fans expected in Capital One Arena for remainder of Capitals, Wizards regular season games
- Ilya Samsonov or Vitek Vanecek? For the Caps, there’s no reason to choose yet.
- The Wizards blow a 19-point lead, get burned by Toronto at the buzzer
- The 2021 Masters: TV info and everything you need to know
Atlanta Journal Constitution
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