Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Highlight reel leads ECU to defensive lineman

ecupirates.com

• Sophia LoCicero Named Recipient of American Athletic Conference 2022-23 Commissioner’s Postgraduate Leadership Award
• Swimming & Diving Earns CSCAA Scholar All-America Team Honors
• Bortles Promoted To Assistant Coach/Hitting Coach For Baseball Program

247 Sports

• Jaylen Johnson makes East-West Shrine Bowl Watch List
• PODCAST: Why RJ Felton is the heartbeat of this ECU basketball team
• How returning ECU baseball players have performed this summer
• Shane Calhoun, Jeremy Lewis to represent ECU at upcoming AAC Media Days

College roundup: ECU baseball already making preparations for 2024 season Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Michigan football’s new stadium scoreboards and lights are almost ready Detroit Free Press

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• South Florida’s Jeremiah, East Carolina’s LoCicero Earn Commissioner’s Postgraduate Leadership Awards
• 2023 Football Media Days Lineup

Auburn’s Hugh Freeze high on former USF speedster Brian Battie Tampa Bay Times

 Mailbag: Memphis facing big questions ahead of Dominican Republic trip Memphis Commercial Appeal

Dallas Morning News

• SMU’s Rhett Lashlee wants SMU-TCU rivalry to remain, even if college landscape changes
• CFB recruiting update: Where does each 2024 class for area schools currently stand?

Rice holds wide receiver corps in high esteem Houston Chronicle

Everything WSU, KU, K-State fans need to know about TBT bracket, schedule in Wichita Wichita Eagle

Tulane football riding wave of 2022 success with breakthrough 2024 recruiting class The Athletic (sub req’d)

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• Duke basketball nonconference schedule is complete. Here’s who Blue Devils face
• Big-name football schools find recruiting gold in NC, in-state programs take a hit

Exclusive: NBA star Chris Paul on trade, Wake Forest days and his grandfather’s murder Charlotte Observer

Winston Salem Journal

• Kirby Smart says complacency is biggest threat to Georgia three-peat
• Georgia’s Kirby Smart will keep close tabs on QB snap distribution in camp
• Champion Georgia not afraid of three-peat talk
• Hugh Freeze sees Auburn in ‘upper echelon’ of SEC in ’23

Columbia The State

• Major changes are coming for USC’s Williams-Brice Stadium. Here’s what to expect
• Dabo Swinney updates Clemson football scholarship situation ahead of 2023 season
• 5 things we learned as Clemson football hosts 2023 on-campus media day
• Contract details emerge for new South Carolina baseball pitching coach Matt Williams
• Kirby Smart sounds off on future of South Carolina-Georgia football series

Charleston Post & Courier

• Clemson’s Dabo Swinney upbeat on expectations, competition for 2023
• Back-to-back champ Georgia Bulldogs dealing with troubling off-season
• SEC commissioner Greg Sankey wants national NIL oversight

Region/state roundup: ODU’s Hunter Fitz-Gerald signs free-agent deal with Mariners  Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• College football countdown – 38 days: Alabama, Florida up at SEC Media Days
• Hugh Freeze returns to SEC knowing Auburn is playing catch up

Palm Beach Post

•  Imagining if Vols had hired one of Phillip Fulmer’s bright ideas for coach
•  Toppmeyer: Why thriving Big 12-SEC rivalry is possible amid bitter feelings