Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

How Erik Bakich’s path to Clemson baseball coach started with promises to a dying mentor 20 years ago YAHOO!

ecupirates.com

• Gasper Added To ECU Football Staff
• ECU Quartet Earns National Honors

Michael Jordan Advises Harold Varner III to Decline ‘Nuts’ LIV Offer, Stay on PGA Tour Sports Illustrated

Former ECU starting shortstop, two-way player Ryder Giles enters portal 247 Sports

ECU BASEBALL: Three Pirates named to All-Region team Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Announces Entrance Agreements With Incoming Members for 2023-24 Season American Athletic Conference

Memphis Commercial Appeal

•  Emoni Bates and other what ifs potentially facing Memphis basketball
•  Tigers softball coach Poole resigns after 11 seasons
•  Memphis baseball names former Missouri coach Tim Jamieson pitching coach

NOLA.com

• Outfield Teo Banks exits portal, returns to Tulane baseball team
• Tulane baseball hires pitching coach, gets two players back from transfer portal

Virginia Governor’s donation helps create SMU’s new ‘Student-Athlete Success’ Department Dallas Morning News

Tulsa World

Notes on offensive weapons joining Arch Manning on Texas official visit this weekend 247 Sports

The Temple News

 Crosstown Shootout: UC to host XU Dec. 10 in 90th game in rivalry Cincinnati Enquirer

UCF is ‘the team to beat’ for Chaminade-Madonna OL Elvin Harris Orlando Sentinel

Eyeing clean slate, UH track coach Burrell leaving for Auburn Houston Chronicle

‘It’s about championships’: Kevin Saal’s vision as new Wichita State athletic director  Wichita Eagle

Annapolis Capital

• Army-Navy football game going to New England’s Gillette Stadium in 2023, returning to Baltimore in 2025
• New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft and legendary head coach Bill Belichick helped spearhead Army-Navy game bid

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Landing Clemson Job ‘Is a Dream Come True’ for Erik Bakich Sports Illustrated

It’s official: Erik Bakich named Clemson’s new baseball coach TigerNet

Charleston Post & Courier

• Clemson hires Erik Bakich, a proud branch of the Leggett coaching tree
• Sapakoff: 9-team SEC schedule, 12-team CFP adds up for Gamecocks

Columbia The State

• Return to Clemson a full-circle moment for new head baseball coach Erik Bakich
• Former Clemson head coach Jack Leggett to play role on new coach Erik Bakich’s staff

Raleigh News & Observer

• Jon Scheyer’s first full Duke basketball roster is set. Here are four things to know
• Hubert Davis warns against ‘positive noise’ for UNC basketball after Final Four run

How The Eight College World Series Teams Advanced To Omaha Baseball America

In Omaha for the 38th time, Texas set for College World Series opener against Notre Dame Austin American-Statesman

UT Longhorns aim to launch the long ball in Omaha Axios

New UConn men guard Tristen Newton learning the Husky way Hartford Courant

After trying on UConn for just a brief time, newcomer Tristen Newton finds Huskies a perfect fit YAHOO!