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Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

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ecupirates.com

  • Foursome Of Golfers Earn GCAA Academic Honors
  • Baseball Earns Sixth ABCA Academic Award
  • AAC WBB Announces Schedule Pairings
  • Bridges Earns Academic All-America Honors
  • Snead Named To Paul Hornung Watch List
  • The American Announces MBB Opponent Assignments
  • Ahlers Chosen To Wuerffel Trophy Watch List
  • ECU Earns NABC Team Academic Excellence Award

Rivals.com

  • Ahlers and Snead On Wuerffel and Hornung Watch Lists
  • East Carolina Punter Jonn Young Named to Ray Guy Watch List

247 Sports

  • Five second-year ECU players who could see a bigger role this season
  • ECU 2021 Opponent Preview: Houston
  • AAC updates testing protocol for vaccinated vs. unvaccinated
  • Countdown to Kickoff: No. 34 Myles Berry
  • Countdown to Kickoff: No. 35 Dre Terry
  • Jonn Young named to Ray Guy Award Watch List
  • ECU to open Myrtle Beach Invitational against Oklahoma

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

  • New energy, new names after ECU’s Gardner-Monk Era
  • ECU ROUNDUP: Ahlers, Snead named to watch lists

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

  • Houston’s Grimes Selected No. 25 Overall in 2021 NBA Draft
  • East Carolina’s Bridges Named CoSIDA Academic All-American
  • South Florida Softball’s Corrick Tabbed To CoSIDA Academic All-America Third Team
  • American Athletic Conference Announces 2021-22 Women’s Basketball Schedule Pairings
  • American Athletic Conference Releases 2021-22 Men’s Basketball Schedule Pairings
  • Football Media Days to be Held Virtually August 3-4; Live Coverage on ESPN+

Cincinnati Enquirer

  •  Cincinnati’s Gardner, Sanders named to Nagurski Trophy watch list
  • Conference realignment: What is the future of the Cincinnati Bearcats?
  •  UC cornerbacks Gardner, Bryant named to Jim Thorpe Award watch list

Tampa Bay Times

  • As conference realignment begins, USF picked a bad time to be bad at football
  • USF players capitalize on NIL law with special teams camp

Orlando Sentinel

  • UCF coach Gus Malzahn talks conference realignment, fall camp and scheduling Florida
  • UCF fans should applaud AAC’s Aresco for trying to ruin Big 12 | Commentary

Building momentum: Tulane’s early football recruiting class loaded with 3-star prospects NOLA.com

Dallas Morning News

  • SMU, DeSoto product Feron Hunt among multiple undrafted free agents signed by Mavericks
  • College football mock realignment: DMN columnists, writers create four 16-team mega conferences

While conference realignment swirls, let’s make college football about the football again | Giannotto Memphis Commercial Appeal

Thrive Academy hires former Donaldsonville, Tulane standout Devon Breaux as ihead football coach The Advocate

Guerin Emig: ESPN and American Athletic Conference enter realignment craziness and, well, maybe it isn’t so crazy Tulsa World

UH’s DeJon Jarreau to sign with Miami Heat Houston Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

  • Cary’s Claire Curzan had one last shot at an Olympic medal. Here’s how she did
  • Randolph Ross, a Garner native and NC A&T track star, gets his shot on the Olympic stage

Winston Salem Journal

  • ‘We all feel disrespected.’ WSSU selected ninth overall in CIAA in preseason coaches poll and fourth in Southern Division.
  • Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says ESPN trying to break up Big 12
  • WSSU to play in new Chris Paul HBCU Tip-Off tournament at Naismith Hall of Fame

The Associated Press

  • SEC welcomes Texas, Oklahoma after boards accept invitations
  • SEC invites Oklahoma and Texas to join conference — in 2025
  • The Southeastern Conference has voted to invite Texas and Oklahoma to join the league, effective July 1, 2025
  • Huskers open practice out to end streak of 4 losing seasons
  • AP Top 25 Podcast: Big Ten preview and realignment is back
  • Big 12 accuses ESPN of trying to ‘destabilize’ conference

EDITORIAL: College athletics a tsunami of change for BU, Big 12 Waco Tribune

Houston Chronicle

  • Texas looking out for No. 1 in move to SEC
  • Joining SEC ‘just means more’ than football for newcomers

The Oklahoman

  •  Tramel: How will OU fare in the SEC? The playoff plan will matter
  • Carlson: OU fans are all in on moving to SEC — except for this one thing
  •  Tramel: Will OU and Texas be lame ducks long in the Big 12?

In new playoff landscape, conferences should think smaller Saturday Blitz

College football realignment: What should CU Buffs, CSU Rams do now? Denver Post

Steven M. Sipple: If college football’s muck gets to be too much for you, there’s always Netflix Lincoln Star-Journal

Sports column: SEC expansion will leave lots of unintended casualties The Vicksburg Post

 

Nuggets and Briefs:  National and Professional articles of interest

Winston Salem Journal

  • Olympics roundup: US women win medals in vault, uneven bars; new world’s fastest man; US golf gold
  • Olympics Latest: Chen wins badminton gold in women’s singles
  • Italian Jacobs takes surprising gold in Olympic 100
  • Rays prospect Shane Baz to start for US vs Japan at Olympics
  • Israel gets 1st Olympic baseball win; Mexico eliminated
  • Olympic champion Sunisa Lee adds bronze on uneven bars

Raleigh News and Observer

  • Without defenseman Dougie Hamilton, the Canes take a defense-by-committee approach
  • Hurricanes sign veteran forward Derek Stepan to one-year contract

Charlotte Observer

  • Robby Anderson’s big catch, team’s aggressiveness highlight Panthers camp practice
  • Carolina Panthers apologize to fans. Here’s why they sent a late-night ‘we’re sorry.’
  • The Hornets got more vertical in the NBA draft and are going to create must-see TV
  • Getting Bouknight, Jones in NBA draft puts Hornets in position to end playoff drought
  • Meet James Bouknight after he was selected 11th overall by the Charlotte Hornets
  • Hornets ‘very surprised’ James Bouknight fell to them in NBA draft

Washington Post

  • Olympics live updates: Sprinter Lamont Marcell Jacobs of Italy wins gold in men’s 100 meters
  • After a stiff Aussie challenge, Caeleb Dressel keeps U.S. swimming on top
  • Simone Biles withdraws from floor exercise final, has one more chance to compete in Tokyo
  • As athletes open up on mental health, Japan’s Olympians tell harrowing tales
  • Japan has put on a diverse face for the Olympics. Some ‘hafu’ say that’s not reality.
  • Katie Ledecky’s greatest triumph isn’t all the gold. It’s the fun she found in pursuit.
  • ‘Look good, feel good, run good.’ The hair and nails at track and field provide plenty of flash.

Atlanta Journal Constitution

  • Falcons’ Matt Ryan facing reality that Julio Jones is gone
  • 5 things we learned at Day 3 of Falcons training camp
  • How flurry of deadline deals affected Braves’ payroll
  • Trade deadline reshapes National League East in present and future

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