ECU Swimming & Diving Welcomes Seven New Pirates… Pirates Earn United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award… Virgil Givens Named Director of Track & Field/Cross Country…
1999 ECU Football Team To Be Recognized At UTSA Game… Fiona Cunningham Named Volleyball Assistant Coach… Rahjai Harris Named To Doak Walker Award Watch List…
Seven Pirates Named Preseason All-AAC By CFN

Pirate Press: ECU Headlines

Monroe harkens back as ’99 Pirates celebrate silver anniversary

ECU bests slew of suitors for Georgia defensive end

ecupirates.com

• ECU Swimming & Diving Welcomes Seven New Pirates
• Pirates Earn United Soccer Coaches Team Academic Award
• Virgil Givens Named Director of Track & Field/Cross Country
• 1999 ECU Football Team To Be Recognized At UTSA Game
• Fiona Cunningham Named Volleyball Assistant Coach
• Rahjai Harris Named To Doak Walker Award Watch List
• Seven Pirates Named Preseason All-AAC By CFN

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• ECU football dealing with poor weather due to Debby
• ECU’s 1999 football team to be recognized at game …
• ECU football dealing with poor weather due to Debby
• ECU football has first fully-padded practice of season
• ECU RB Harris named to Doak Walker Award Watch List
• Fiona Cunningham named ECU Volleyball Assistant Coach
• ECU football opens camp, high focus on takeaways, ball …
• ECU football team reports for fall camp, first day of …

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• East Carolina’s first team battles it out in a high-intensity, full-pad scrimmage
• ECU football’s bulletin board material has the Pirates plenty fueled for every practice
• Longtime Greenville coach, ECU alum, NCAA referee Raymie Styons passes away

 

Chargers training camp, Day 14: Competition heating up at wide receiver The New York Times

MLB

• ‘This place is unbelievable’: Yesavage gets 1st taste of Toronto
• How 2024 Draft can move Toronto’s farm forward

Gordo: Burleson’s rise, Carlson’s stall underscore uncertainty of player development St Louis Post Dispatch

247 Sports

• SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: ECU gets in final tune up day before scrimmage
• ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 22 Ja’Marley Riddle
• What you need to know about ECU’s 2024 football opponent: Army
• ECU Football: A look at the newcomers in Purple and Gold in preseason camp
• ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 23 Dameon Wilson
• ECU to honor 1999 football team at this season’s UTSA game on Sept. 28
• ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 24 Tymir Brown
• Everything Mike Houston said after ECU’s Tuesday preseason practice
• SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: ECU puts on full pads for first time in preseason camp
• ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 25 Kingston McKinstry
• ECU Countdown to Kickoff: No. 26 Isaiah Brown-Murray
• SIGHTS AND SOUNDS: ECU begins second week of preseason practice on Monday

Greenville Daily Reflector (sub req’d)

• ECU football: Scrimmage will help shape Pirates’ depth chart
• Local roundup: ECU names new track & field director, third since 1967
• ECU football: Pirates hold first padded practice

ECU Notes: ECU researchers guide heat stress app development

UMass football: New offensive coordinator Shane Montgomery’s path to the Minutemen Daily Hampshire Gazette

Around the American Athletic Conference

American Athletic Conference

• Taylor Smartt Named New UAB Softball Head Coach
• Memphis’ Henigan, South Florida’s Brown on Walter Camp Award Watch List

College Football Network

• 2024 AAC WR Rankings: Memphis Has Conference’s Best Trio in Roc Taylor, Demeer Blankumsee, and Koby Drake
• 2024 AAC IOL Rankings: Memphis Guard Xavier Hill Leads a Center-Laden List
• 2024 AAC TE Rankings: Charlotte’s Colin Weber, Rice’s Boden Groen Dominate Defenses
• 2024 AAC DT Rankings: Patrick Jenkins Returns With DT1 Crown
• 2024 AAC EDGE Rankings: Leading Returner Chad Stephens Sees Several Transfers Usurp Him
• 2024 AAC OT Rankings: UTSA’s Makai Hart Returns To Put Back-to-Back Season-Ending Injuries Behind Him

2024 AAC Season Preview, Odds & Predictions: Bullseye Covers

USF veteran iron man Mike Lofton at center of Bulls’ resurgence Tampa Tribune

USF football looks to build on turnaround season Axios Tampa

Elder statesmen lead Bulls in training camp ABC Action News

Will Memphis be able to reach the College Football Playoff? ESPN

Memphis football unranked but receives votes in preseason US LBM Coaches Poll USA Today

Minor hopes to make major impact on Memphis secondary Hosted

dailymemphian

• Tigers Notebook: Who will be impact players on special teams this season?
• Memphis Tigers receive votes in USA Today Coach’s Poll
• In his senior year, Tigers safety Greg Rubin is finding his voice

Memphis Commercial Appeal

• What Ryan Silverfield told Paul Finebaum about Memphis football’s offseason, CFP hopes
• What will Memphis football’s defense look like under Jordon Hankins in 2024? ‘I have no idea’
• Is Memphis basketball’s 2024-25 non-conference schedule its strongest ever? A breakdown

How Ryan Silverfield’s unique journey at Memphis prepared him for championship expectations in 2024 season CBS Sports

Bill Haisten: Remembering Steve Kragthorpe’s stunning, miraculous success at TU Tulsa World

Dynamic duo: Summer cornerback transfers have transformed Tulane secondary NOLA.com

Tulane tight end Alex Bauman earns place on 2024 John Mackey Award Preseason Watch List Crescent City Sports

WGNO

• Tulane Green Wave overcome Saban-sized hurdle to secure sixth-year center
• Shaadie shaking back for senior season at Tulane
• Adin Huntington prepares to be a disruptive force on the Tulane defensive line

Sports Illustrated

• Tulane Transfer DB Named Preseason All-AAC Honorable Mention
• Tulane Defensive Linemen Have Opportunity in Scrimmage
• Tulane Offensive Star is Excited to Execute in New System
• Former Tulane Star Has Work Cut Out for Him with Green Bay Packers
• Tulane Coach Wants to See Confidence in His Quarterbacks

FAU Football hungrier than ever as preseason camp picks up in Boca Raton CBS 12

Plenty of new faces at FAU fall camp ahead of 2024 season WPBF

The Herald

• With a new QB and receivers galore, Charlotte is stretching the field with passing game
• ‘We’ve got some dogs’: Charlotte 49ers are excited following opening of football camp

Charlotte looks to QB Max Brown as the missing piece the program always needed SB Nation

Dallas Morning News

• Three UNT football players arrested, charged with trespassing, report says
• Longtime Southlake Carroll AD Steve Keasler to join UNT staff as GM, associate AD for NIL

UNT to see fruits of efforts to improve run defense in Saturday scrimmage KTEN

UNT tackling challenge of replacing key special teams players as fall drills continue Tyler Morning Telegraph

UNT Athletics introduces new Mean Green-themed bourbon, beer MSN

Army lineman Dre Miller recognized for his community service, up for national awards Times Record-Herald

College football predictions: How to bet Army, Navy’s preseason win totals New York Post

Ivin Jasper coaching Navy’s quarterbacks and fullbacks Baltimore Sun

 

Regional Headlines: The Carolinas and beyond

Raleigh News & Observer

• UNC football defense, under Geoff Collins, hopes to create mayhem in 2024 season
• UNC football pressing corners Marcus Allen, Alijah Huzzie into action for 2024 season

WRAL

• NC State swim coach tastes fast, furious nature of Olympic competition
• UNC’s Best manages media, athlete interactions at Paris Olympics
• Duke’s Kara Lawson, Team USA women’s basketball aims for 8th straight gold

Grimsley 5-star QB Faizon Brandon chooses Tennessee over NC State  MSN

Team USA in peril? The Olympic dangers lurking in college sports’ transformative change USA Today

These Teams Head Into 2024 Season With The Nation’s Longest Bowl Droughts Forbes

College Football Bowl Ties, Affiliations For Each Conference 2024-2025 College Football News

Winston Salem Journal

• WSSU’s Trevor Willard on his comeback: ‘I never thought about not coming back to play because this is a sport that I eat and breath.’
• Mark Bradley: Pigskin pickin’ — Georgia reigns again
• Jim Harbaugh set to return to Michigan as honorary captain for season opener
• John Clay: Call me crazy, but here are 10 predictions for the upcoming college football and NFL seasons

Columbia The State

• ‘They want me so bad.’ Gamecocks stay after talented in-state receiver, FSU commitment
• South Carolina’s newest QB is from Texas. So how did he grow up rooting for Gamecocks?
• Join us! Kick off the Gamecocks’ season with Dakereon Joyner, The State and Seawell’s
• 2024 college football schedules for teams in South Carolina
• How Newberry College football is preparing for bounce-back season
• Dan Hurley at South Carolina? It almost happened, UConn basketball coach says
• SC State football beats the weather, gets practice in thanks to help from USC Gamecocks
• USC women’s soccer has national championship aspirations in 2024: ‘We want it all’

Charleston Post & Courier

• Hamilton: 3 ways college football season will be transformative
• Serbia’s near-upset of Team USA shows depth of international hoops
• Gamecocks’ Nyck Harbor is great on video game. How about in real life?
• Latest Clemson ‘WRU’ shirts add 2 key words: ‘Prove it’

Debo’s Doughnuts: Senior leader has lofty goal in mind for Gamecocks’ defense

Chesapeake’s Grant Holloway becomes first American to win Olympic gold in 110-meter hurdles since 2012  Norfolk Virginian-Pilot

Excitement is ‘high’ for Hampton University’s new-look offensive line

Hampton Roads Daily Press

• Virginia Tech running back Bhayshul Tuten makes preseason watch list for Doak Walker Award
• Norfolk State WRs will be ‘by committee’ this season; Saturday will provide clarity in QB battle

Dana Holgorsen ‘does not regret’ leaving WVU for Houston YAHOO!

ACC Football: Power Ranking Every Starting Quarterback in the ACC Sports Illustrated