“Meet The Pirates” Event Set For August 19… New “Voice of the Pirates” abandons ship after resume flub; steps down due to ‘misleading information’ on resume… Beleaguered Pac-12 says it will pursue expansion… Jim Harbaugh’s looming suspension and the strange impact for Michigan, NCAA

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

ecupirates.com

• “Meet The Pirates” Event Set For August 19
• Men’s Golf Announces 2023-24 Schedule

New ‘Voice of the Pirates’ steps down due to ‘misleading information’ on resume WNCT 9

New “Voice of the Pirates” abandons ship after resume flub WITN 7

Former Duke baseball announcer Chris Edwards leaves East Carolina for ‘academic inconsistencies’ on resume The Chronicle

Chris Edwards loses ‘dream’ PBP job at ECU after a week over ‘misleading’ resume Awful Announcing

Wichita State men’s basketball team releases non-conference schedule for 2023-24 season WAVY

ECU play-by-play announcer Chris Edwards steps down due to academic inconsistencies on resume WRAL

New “Voice of the Pirates” departs from ECU after resume inconsistencies The East Carolinian

247 Sports

• ECU play by play job reopens as Chris Edwards steps down due to ‘academic inconsistencies on resume’
• 2024 WR Yannick Smith commits to East Carolina
• ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 37 Kamarro Edmonds

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• ECU: Edwards out as new broadcaster after ‘academic inconsistencies’
• ECU Notes: ECU students volunteer at Special Olympics World Games

Jim Harbaugh’s looming suspension and the strange impact for Michigan, NCAA Sporting News

Jim Harbaugh crows about Michigan’s potential in 2023, stays mum on expected NCAA suspension … for now CBS Sports

Jim Harbaugh: J.J. McCarthy is a generational Michigan QB Fox Sports

REPORT: Gardner Minshew Slept On A Mattress He Found Next To A Dumpster Total Pro Sports

Around the American Athletic Conference

Beleaguered Pac-12 says it will pursue expansion Tulsa World

What to know about realignment, SMU after Big 12′s move to add Colorado Dallas Morning News

Pac-12: Time for commissioner George Kliavkoff, presidents to take swift, bold action Arizona Daily Star

Charlotte 49ers football: QB Jalon Jones among newcomers to watch Charlotte Observer

UAB football starting fall camp WBRC

Wichita State men’s basketball team releases non-conference schedule for 2023-24 season YAHOO!

Wichita State men’s basketball team releases non-conference schedule for 2023-24 season Wichita Eagle

Friday night game has UNT’s Eric Morris, SMU’s Rhett Lashlee a bit uncomfortable Denton Record Chronicle

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• NC State football’s Payton Wilson back to provide more ‘speed, violence and effort’
• Aydan White was NC State’s latest breakout star on defense last year. Who’s next?
• NC State quarterback Brennan Armstrong at ACC Kickoff again, with a whole new outlook
• If UNC coach Mack Brown is going to make one more big splash, this has to be the year

Winston Salem Journal

• Water bottle mixup leaves Aggies steaming
• J. Brady McCollough: George Kliavkoff and the new Pac-9 learn a hard lesson. Universities follow the money.
• Column: A bold look into college football’s future
• Big 12 not the same, but feels like home to 98-year-old Colorado fan

Columbia The State

• Why Dowell Loggains has belief in Spencer Rattler, South Carolina QB room
• A favorite is emerging to win the ACC football preseason poll. It’s not Clemson
• Clemson has national championship goals. Why QB Cade Klubnik is ‘built for it’

Charleston Post & Courier

• Sapakoff: UNC’s Drake Maye on facing NFL draft hype, and the Gamecocks
• CofC hears ‘Thanks, but no thanks’ from Power 5 basketball teams
• Gamecocks’ Shane Beamer credits special-teams work for rise to head coach

Ali Jennings, after starring at ODU, seeks success at Virginia Tech. ‘I’m here to make plays for y’all now.’  Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

Atlanta Journal Constitution

• Georgia’s Tyrion Ingram-Dawkins cited for excessive speeding
• Georgia Tech returns four starters on offensive line