Multiple reports Tuesday indicated that Joe Dooley would fill the basketball coaching vacancy at East Carolina. Dooley coached the Pirates from the 1995-96 season to 1998-99. ECU was 57-52 overall and 29-35 in the Colonial Athletic Association during that span. Dooley was dismissed by former athletic director Mike Hamrick after a 65-62 double overtime loss to Old Dominion … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — David Blackwell admitted to some mixed emotions after Trace Christian got free for a 22-yard touchdown run late in the fourth quarter to give the Gold team a 21-14 win over Purple in East Carolina's spring football game at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium on Saturday. Blackwell, a former Pirate player and assistant, was head coach of the Gold, but he is also ECU's new … [Read more...]

Bonesville’s Al Myatt captured this collection of action shots and other candid photos during ECU's Purple-Gold Spring Game Saturday afternoon at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium. (Click any image for expanded view, caption & slide show.) … [Read more...]

New offensive line coach Don Mahoney has been to East Carolina's Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium before as part of staffs at Tulane and Central Michigan. He will be there Saturday for ECU's Purple-Gold game at 1 p.m. "I've had a chance to come into this hostile environment," Mahoney said. "I remember it all too well, unfortunately, being on the other side of it. ... I left here saying … [Read more...]