In my newspaper days, my coworkers and I were fond of calling out, “Warning: Journalists doing math,” but the truth is numbers do find their way into my stories frequently, especially sports-related numbers. It’s hard to spend much time in sportswriting without having to dust off your middle school math skills from time to time. In journalism school I even took a fascinating … [Read more...]

It’s been ten days since we folded up our chairs and trudged quietly out of the Jungle, shell shocked by the events of an East Carolina-UNC-Wilmington baseball game that lasted nine hours on paper but, in truth, was decided in about thirty minutes. If I still feel an ache, I know that the die-hard Diamond Bucs fans — the faithful Jungle fence leaners, the all-day tent … [Read more...]

More than 400 East Carolina student-athletes started the 2017-’18 school year after a summer of training, full of hopes for their upcoming season. After campaigns for 18 different sports with varying degrees of success, only two are still competing. Hosting a regional didn’t end the way the baseball team or the Pirate Nation had hoped, and even with the happy news of … [Read more...]

Corey Gloor has spent most of his life in the Midwest — childhood and college in Illinois followed by a stint in Wisconsin. Baseball is his favorite sport to call, and he has worked games from high school up to minor leagues. But Gloor has never experienced, or even imagined, a baseball environment like the one in which he now finds himself. “It really floored me,” said … [Read more...]

It’s possible that junior Davis Searcy, who grew up in Pitt County and is both the president of the Minges Maniacs and one of the founding members of the LeClair Lunatics, has seen as many East Carolina sporting events as any fan his age. But he has never seen anything quite like the American Athletic Conference baseball semifinal game Tuesday in Clearwater, FL. Because of … [Read more...]