Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Football Recruiting Report
Lineman built his future during COVID layoff Bonesville.net

ecupirates.com

• ECU Earns NABC Team Academic Excellence Award
• ECU Adds Two More To 2022 Softball Roster
• ECU Draws Oklahoma At Myrtle Beach Invitational
• Young Named To Ray Guy Watch List
• Four Pirates Named To NABC Honors Court
• Pirates Named IWLCA Academic Honor Squad

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• ECU draws Oklahoma at Myrtle Beach Invitational
• ECU earns NABC Team Academic Excellence award
• ECU punter named to Ray Guy Watch List
• ECU adds two more players to 2022 roster
• Big 12 accuses ESPN of trying to ‘destabilize’ conference
• ECU police arrest man for setting police SUV on fire

Man accused of torching ECU police cruiser WITN 7

Man accused of setting police SUV on fire at ECU WRAL

OU, East Carolina to Play in Opening Round of Myrtle Beach Invitational Oklahoma Sooners

East Carolina Punter Jonn Young Named to Ray Guy Watch List  Rivals.com

247 Sports

• Sooners to open Myrtle Beach Invitational against East Carolina, bracket unveiled
• Countdown to Kickoff: No. 35 Dre Terry
• From Fitz: Bowlsby lashes out in defense of his conference

ECU ROUNDUP: Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

Football Media Days to be Held Virtually August 3-4; Live Coverage on ESPN+ American Athletic Conference

Top 50 AAC College Football Players for 2021: 30-21 Underdog Dynasty

CBSSports.com

• Big 12 believes American is attempting to grab eight remaining members with Texas, Oklahoma leaving for SEC
• Big 12 commissioner alleges ESPN conspired with SEC, American to lure teams from conference

ESPN Sends Blunt Response Back To Big 12’s Cease & Desist Letter Total Pro Sports

Cincinnati Bearcats CB Gardner, DE Sanders named to watch list for Bronko Nagurski Trophy Cincinnati Enquirer

College Football Mathematical Preview: Independents and the Group of Five The Only Colors

As conference realignment begins, USF picked a bad time to be bad at football Tampa Bay Times

UCF, Maryland agree to home-and-home football series beginning in 2025  Orlando Sentinel

Big 12 accuses ESPN network of shenanigans Temple Daily Telegram

‘A complete articulation of deception’: Bowlsby says ESPN trying to break up Big 12 Fort Worth Star-Telegram

Big 12 Sends A ‘Cease And Desist’ Letter To ESPN. That’s Only Half The Story. Forbes

Big 12 sends ESPN a cease-and-desist, says ESPN’s been talking with at least one conference beyond SEC on adding Big 12 members Awful Announcing

Dallas Morning News

• Cole Beasley makes vaccination statement: ‘I’m not anti- or pro-vax. I’m pro choice’
• SMU football unveils new ‘Dallas’ uniforms ahead of 2021 season
• Join the Big 12? Keep the American rising? SMU AD Rick Hart says Mustangs must be ready for anything

Memphis Commercial Appeal

•  Hardaway closing in on filling coaching staff vacancies
•  Who steps up as Tigers No. 1 RB after disappointing season?

Big 12 accuses ESPN of trying to ‘destabilize’ conference Houston Chronicle

Former Navy football fullback Jamale Carothers transfers to Western Kentucky, located in his hometown Annapolis Capital

Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says ESPN trying to break up Big 12 Wichita Eagle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• NBA draft expected to be thin on UNC, Duke, NCSU players
• Duke coach David Cutcliffe brought his players an unwanted, legless surprise
• Duke coach, former UNC women’s basketball player make history in Tokyo Olympics

WSSU to play in new Chris Paul HBCU Tip-Off tournament at Naismith Hall of Fame Winston Salem Journal

NC State Unveils Design for the Season Opener Football Helmet, But Is It Good?  BCSNN

Fayetteville Observer

•  UNC opposes plan for College Football Playoff expansion to 12 teams
• UNC QB Sam Howell named Preseason Player of the Year for ACC football by wide margin

Old Dominion will play in Myrtle Beach basketball tourney Norfolk Virginian Pilot

Gilbert says Marshall is taking ‘wait and see’ approach on conference realignment West Virginia MetroNews

N.C. A&T and Hampton look forward to playing each other as Big South Conference competitors The Undefeated

CCU’s kicker, punter named to preseason watch lists for national awards Charleston Post Courier

Columbia The State

• Got a hunch how Doty, Harris and the Gamecocks will do in 2021? Place your bets
• Perfect regular season the benchmark for Clemson? This oddsmaker thinks so
• What SEC expansion might mean for South Carolina’s bottom line
• SLED has ‘active investigation’ involving former Clemson player

A&M board of regents in favor of adding Texas, OU to SEC Houston Chronicle

Now with the stage set, league presidents expected to vote Texas, Oklahoma into SEC Austin American-Statesman

The Associated Press

• Big 12 accuses ESPN of trying to ‘destabilize’ conference
• NCAA won’t re-evaluate penalties for Bush, other cases
• Regents approve naming Iowa’s football field for Duke Slater
• Pac-12 players, coaches still trying to get handle on NIL
• Rolovich laments distraction created by his vaccine decision
• 12-team CFP: Why can’t Irish earn a bye and other questions

What the Big 12 can learn from the Sun Belt as conference realignment looms The Daily Advertiser