It might be difficult to believe now that Duke has become one of the most recognized brands in college basketball and Mike Krzyzewski has earned his niche as winningest coach in the history of the game, but there was a time early in his tenure with the Blue Devils in which Coach K’s job was anything but secure. Battling to build his program and unhappy about what he … [Read more...]

It’s difficult and in most cases, inadvisable, to make any rash judgments about a team in the second week of a long season. So let’s not read too much into the East Carolina baseball team's two recent losses, especially the one last Wednesday at Campbell — a team that won its conference and played in the NCAA tournament a year ago. At the same time, there are least a … [Read more...]

With only a few exceptions, most college athletic programs are defined by their highest profile sport. Alabama, for example, is known as a football school. Duke and North Carolina are basketball schools. At East Carolina, it’s baseball that takes center stage. With all due respect to coach Skip Holtz’s Conference USA championship teams of 2008-09 and several other notable … [Read more...]

Gov. Roy Cooper issued a statement Thursday urging officials at East Carolina and Virginia Tech to resolve a scheduling dispute that began when the Pirates chose to ride out Hurricane Florence in the safety of Florida last fall rather than risk traveling into harm’s way to play a scheduled game against the Hokies in Blacksburg. In retaliation, Tech cancelled games under … [Read more...]