Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Shrine Bowl linebacker plans early enrollment

 

Pirates pursue FBS win

ecupirates.com

• Softball Signs Five To 2024 Class
• ECU Visits South Florida For First-Place Showdown
• Pirates Set for Home Opener Against USC Upstate Thursday
• Women’s Golf Announces Early Signees For 2024
• Mike Houston’s Weekly Press Conference Quotes

The East Carolinian

• WBB unveils conference championship banner against USC Upstate
• ECU football takes on FAU

Local athletes sign National Letters of Intent on signing day, a few local athletes earn spots at ECU WITN 7

247 Sports

• D’Anta Johnson enjoying healthy, breakthrough season for ECU’s defense
• Sam Dankah likely to see increased role down the stretch
• Senior OLB Jack Powers to miss rest of season with torn pec

Mason column: Pirates should think of future in final three games Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Florida Atlantic vs. East Carolina Picks, Best Bets and Prediction – November 11 Athlon Sports

Florida Atlantic vs. East Carolina Prediction, Odds, Picks – November 11 FOX Sports

Ravens RB Keaton Mitchell named FedEx Ground Player of the Week WBAL

CBS Sports

• RB Gerald Green on his first season with ECU
• Ravens’ Keaton Mitchell: Could be part of backfield rotation

 

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• North Texas, Rice Earn Season Openers
• FIU Sweeps Weekly Swimming and Diving Honors

Can USF’s Amir Abdur-Rahim succeed where so many others have stumbled? Tampa Tribune

What part of Memphis basketball’s win discouraged Penny Hardaway Memphis Commercial Appeal

Tulsa World

• Tulsa likely without QB Cardell Williams for this week’s game against No. 20 Tulane
• Tulsa football’s Kevin Wilson gives quarterback situation update: Kirk Francis, Roman Fuller, injuries and more

NOLA.com

• Tulane football team not looking past Tulsa as AAC race dwindles to four teams
• Tulane, SMU or UTSA? See who is favored to win the American Athletic Conference

FAU Owls open season at Loyola Chicago with all 5 starters back from Final Four team YAHOO!

UTSA’s final regular season football game receives national broadcast spot KSAT

North Texas will face SMU for the 43rd time Friday. Is this the end of the series? Tyler Morning Telegraph

Dallas Morning News

• Keon Ambrose-Hylton leads SMU to win over Western Illinois
• If Preston Stone has to miss SMU vs. UNT, South Oak Cliff QB Kevin Jennings will start
• UNT men’s basketball team wins season opener vs. Northern Iowa in overtime thriller

San Antonio Express News

• UTSA athletics receives $500K gift toward new facility
• UTSA surges past Western Illinois in overtime

Charlotte 49ers open basketball season with resounding 17-point win over Maine Charlotte Observer

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• NC State football’s MJ Morris to redshirt, but his father says he’s not leaving school
• North Carolina’s Drake Maye says he won’t take part in Senior Day ceremony
• For the new-look Tar Heels, a familiar kind of test — and a different kind of response
• Welcome to the Pack: NC State transfer has first career double-double in season opener
• No. 2 Duke basketball rolls. Three takeaways from the Blue Devils’ win over Dartmouth

WRAL

• NC State QB Armstrong could get a second chance in his final season
• NC State QB Morris to redshirt, not leaving the program
• Tar Heels top Gardner-Webb 102-49 in season opener
• Drake Maye on entering 2024 NFL draft: ‘I haven’t made a decision’

Winston Salem Journal

• Bears facing win-win scenario: Beat Carolina and boost odds at No. 1 pick
• SEC, which has dominated NFL draft in recent past, may see a dip

Charleston Post & Courier

• Gamecocks’ Rattler, Legette give USC a chance to hurdle into a bowl game
• Gamecocks’ interest grows in hometown tight end
• Clemson’s Jeremiah Trotter Jr. speaks up, and steps up
• Gamecocks’ 6-day Paris journey sparks growth, and a big win

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

• ODU lands top men’s basketball recruiting class in program history
• Wednesday’s college basketball roundup: Freshman’s late 3 lifts NSU women to comeback victory on road, 2-0 start
• Region/state roundup: William & Mary rolls to shutout in NCAA field hockey tourney opener
• From urgent care to the field: How NSU found itself in a peculiar quarterback situation
• UVA defense has little time to seek answers with short prep for Louisville
• Undefeated JMU football team petitions NCAA to change two-year bowl ban

The Associated Press

• Michigan responds to Big Ten, saying commissioner doesn’t have discipline authority, AP sources say
• New coaches have changed the complexion of the ACC. Some of the rebuilds are faster than others
• SEC players have dominated the NFL draft for the past 17 years. There may be a dip this time around
• No. 11 Louisville hosts Virginia, looking to move closer toward clinching an ACC title-game berth
• College Football Picks: No. 2 Michigan visits No. 9 Penn State in its first test of the season
• Toledo beats Eastern Michigan 49-23 to clinch the MAC West Division title
• Amos has 118 yards, 2 TDs, Miami blanks Akron 19-0
• Keith has career night, Orth accounts for 3 TDs in Bowling Green 49-19 win over Kent State
• What to watch: Georgia, Alabama can clinch spots in SEC title game, No. 2 Michigan at No. 9 Penn St