East Carolina was still in celebration mode after a hard-fought 17-14 homecoming win against Marshall when word of the unthinkable began to circulate around campus on the night of Nov. 14, 1970. On its way home to Huntington, WV, after the game, the chartered plane carrying the Thundering Herd’s traveling party crashed into a hillside… [ More… ]

College baseball is a long season and a lot can — and probably will — happen between now and tournament time in mid-May. But it’s always good to get off to a fast start. And coach Cliff Godwin couldn’t have dialed up a better one than the result his team produced this weekend. It wasn’t… [ More… ]

All bridges, no matter how badly they’re burned, can eventually be rebuilt. It just takes a little wood, a hammer and some nails, and the right set of circumstances. When it comes to the relationship between East Carolina and its once-favorite son Ruffin McNeill, there’s no better time than the present to begin work on… [ More… ]

Rick Smith wasn’t the answer in 2015. Neither was Kenwick Thompson in 2016 and the first couple of games the following season. Robert Prunty was only an interim and his permanent successor David Blackwell didn’t work out, either. With a new East Carolina coach came another new defensive coordinator. But after just one season and… [ More… ]

Keith LeClair’s dream of getting a team to the College World Series was at least partially realized last June when two of his former East Carolina players, Michigan coach Erik Bakich and assistant Nick Schnabel, led the Wolverines to a Super Regional championship and a trip to Omaha. It was an accomplishment that would undoubtedly… [ More… ]

It’s said that the best way to lose a friend is to go into business with him. There’s even more truth to that old axiom when it comes to the business of coaching. Regardless of how long a head coach and his staff have worked together or how long he and an assistant have known… [ More… ]

Sports teams are known to give away all sorts of items — from schedule magnets to t-shirts to bobble heads, just to name a few — as inducements to entice fans into attending their games. All that stuff is nice and people seem to like it. But when it comes to promotions, the best of… [ More… ]