ECU Baseball’s Yesavage and Lunsford-Shenkman named NBCWA All-Americans… Love of the Game: Reflecting on Randy Mazey’s Career; Inside Virginia baseball’s courtship of Brian O’Connor … Former Duke radio announcer Bob Harris dies at 81… Tiger Woods returns to Pinehurst after 19 years and it’s not the same. Neither is he

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Yesavage And Lunsford-Shenkman Named NBCWA All-Americans ecupirates.com

ECU’s Yesavage named to first team NBCWA, Lunsford-Shenkman to second team WNCT 9

ECU Baseball’s Yesavage and Lunsford-Shenkman named NBCWA All-Americans WITN 7

ECU roundup: Three baseball players land on All-Region teams; A dozen football players earn all-AAC nods Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

Love of the Game: Reflecting on Randy Mazey’s Career Blue Gold Sports

Around the American Athletic Conference

East Carolina’s Yesavage And Lunsford-Shenkman Named NBCWA All-Americans American Athletic Conference

Liberty And Memphis Are Among The Non-Power Four Favorites Heading Into 2024 College Football Season Forbes

Marreese Speights joins USF basketball staff Tampa Tribune

7 USF Bulls named to Lindy’s preseason All-AAC football team WFLA

All Aboard the Hype Train for USF QB Byrum Brown Athlon Sports

Louisville wants to renew hoops rivalry with Memphis ABC 24

Why Xavier Johnson, Memphis football’s first 2025 commit, flipped from SMU to Tigers USA Today

DeAndre Williams is back in Memphis as he prepares for whatever ‘God’s got in store’ dailymemphian

Penny Hardaway to add Mike Davis, former Indiana coach, to Memphis basketball coaching staff Memphis Commercial Appeal

UTSA athletic director Lisa Campos signs contract extension through 2029 San Antonio Express News

UTSA athletic director Lisa Campos receives new three-year contract extension KSAT

How AUX softball players want impact on Wichita to last longer than 2-week stay Wichita Eagle

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

WRAL

• Former Duke radio announcer Bob Harris dies at 81
• College World Series might offer glimpse of future with only SEC and ACC teams in the field

Raleigh News & Observer

• Bob Harris, retired Duke athletics radio voice who called five NCAA basketball titles, dies
• More than a bat boy: How UNC baseball pays tribute to late fan at College World Series
• NC State baseball ready for Omaha after ‘surreal’ feeling of winning super regional

2024 College Baseball Transfer Portal Rankings Baseball America

A closer look at Florida State, Tennessee’s opening opponent in the College World Series On3

2024 College World Series odds, picks and predictions: Tennessee favored heading into Omaha Winston Salem Journal

Columbia The State

• Can Paul Mainieri find success as USC coach? Hall of Famer Skip Bertman thinks so
• Can Clemson actually win its lawsuit against ACC? What legal experts say
• Ashley Chastain returns to USC as softball coach: ‘There is no place like home’

Why Tonya Cardoza returned home to Connecticut and UConn women’s basketball: ‘Changed my whole life’ Stamford Advocate

Charleston Post & Courier

• Charleston’s “Guy with a pencil” making a name in college baseball media
• How Clemson star battled through a season-long shoulder injury to shine in super regional
• Bakich says he is ‘sorry, not sorry’ about ejection from Clemson’s super regional loss
• Remembering the late NBA great Jerry West and the night he played in Charleston

Roanoke Times

• Teel: Inside Virginia baseball’s courtship of Brian O’Connor
• What to know about Virginia and its competition in the College World Series
• Former Timesland pitchers have helped N.C. State reach College World Series
• Schedule for opening games of College World Series set