Officially, East Carolina was the visiting team for last Tuesday’s top 11 showdown against Duke. But you never would have known it by the atmosphere at Durham’s Jack Coombs Field. Among the announced crowd of 1,015, a majority of those in attendance were wearing purple or gold and pulling for the Pirates. While that may… [ Continue Reading ]

The East Carolina baseball team put the first two men on base in the bottom of the second Friday against South Florida’s Shane McClanahan, a left-hander who throws in the mid-90s and is projected as a high first round Major League draft pick come June. Already trailing by a run and knowing that scoring might… [ Continue Reading ]

One of the first things Joe Dooley did upon his triumphant return to Greenville last week was telling his new players to have their ring sizes ready. It was a symbolic statement, since there’s a good chance everyone currently on East Carolina’s basketball roster will be gone by the time Dooley has the Pirates in… [ Continue Reading ]

North Carolina Central’s LaVelle Moton withdrew his name from consideration for East Carolina’s basketball coaching position on Thursday, about 24 hours after he formally interviewed for the job. It’s a development that’s either an encouraging sign that the far-too-long process of finding a permanent replacement for Jeff Lebo is finally coming to an end or… [ Continue Reading ]

If the 2018 college football season began today, Reid Herring would be East Carolina’s starting quarterback. That was evident from both the division of playing time between the top three candidates in Saturday’s Purple-Gold spring game and from the comments of both coach Scottie Montgomery and offensive coordinator Tony Peterson afterward. But the season doesn’t… [ Continue Reading ]

March Madness can be a cruel time of year. Just ask the folks at Virginia, Arizona and most of the other 52 teams that have already been eliminated from the NCAA tournament. But it also has not been kind to East Carolina’s basketball program. And that’s saying something, since the Pirates didn’t even come within… [ Continue Reading ]

The news was stunning, if only because of its timing. There were plenty of hints that Jeff Compher might be on his way out as East Carolina’s athletic director, as subtle as the murmurs of discontent echoing quietly from members of the university’s administration and as obvious as the recent sale of his house. But… [ Continue Reading ]