Suzanne Brown understands well that Coach Cliff Godwin keeps a busy schedule during the baseball season. In the four years her son Turner has played for East Carolina, she has never missed a home game and has come to appreciate how hard Godwin works. But judging from his attentiveness to Turner and their family since January 22, when the family’s Whiteville home was … [Read more...]

I am all in on the 30th anniversary celebration of the movie “Field of Dreams.” It will forever and always be in my top five of all time, despite a few critics who hate happiness and seem determined to slam it, three decades later, as cheesy and improbable. Last weekend I discovered a deep dive podcast, “The Rewatchables,” about the 1989 film, and I reveled in every bit of … [Read more...]

Here are some numbers that help explain the sustained success of the East Carolina track and field teams: 14 – Number of Pirate seasons for head coach Curt Kraft 16 – Number of Pirate seasons for throwing coach David Price 11 – Number of Pirate seasons for sprints, relays and hurdles coach Udon Cheek 22 – Number of seniors on the current roster 6 – Number of … [Read more...]

Kim McNeill’s motivation for taking the head coaching job at East Carolina was the same motivation that prompted her to move back east twelve years ago after she tried living in California. Family. Berkeley, California was too far away from her biological family, so in 2007 McNeill moved back closer to home and took an assistant’s job at the University of Georgia, where … [Read more...]

In front of the largest Clark-LeClair Stadium crowd of the season, the East Carolina baseball team defeated the Duke Blue Devils 6-1 on the force of two powerful three-run innings Wednesday night. The 4,744 Pirate fans who witnessed the win also constituted the 15th largest attendance in the ballpark’s history. “4,700 screaming, that’ll get you going a little bit,” said … [Read more...]