It’s said that football is the front door to every college athletic program because of the attention it gets and the income it generates. If that’s the case, then East Carolina's front door is in desperate need of repair. Some of that is already underway with the ongoing renovations that will turn Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium into an active construction site this fall. But in … [Read more...]

East Carolina fans can be excused if they feel as though they’ve climbed into a shiny DeLorean, revved it up to 88 MPH to generate the necessary 1.21 gigawatts of energy and been transported back to 1995. With the return of Dave Hart as the de facto athletic director and the hiring of Joe Dooley to coach the men’s basketball program, the parallels to that more successful, … [Read more...]

As if it wasn’t already obvious enough to anyone who knows the difference between Greenville, North Carolina and it’s namesake South of the border, a recent event confirmed East Carolina’s status as an elite national baseball program. And no, it wasn’t the 44 wins this year’s team rang up, the NCAA regional the Pirates just hosted or the loyal legion of fans whose support … [Read more...]

East Carolina’s exhilarating 2018 baseball season came to a stunning end Sunday with a soggy 9-7 loss to UNC-Wilmington in the loser’s bracket of the NCAA’s Greenville Regional. If the festive atmosphere at Clark-LeClair Stadium wasn’t dampened enough by the five-plus hour rain delay that turned the afternoon game into a long day’s journey into night, it was doused even … [Read more...]

There’s a line in one of my favorite movies, Shawshank Redemption, in which Andy Dufresne reminds his friend Red that “hope is a good thing, maybe the best of the things. And no good thing ever dies.” That might be the truth. But for East Carolina sports fans, hope has been on life support these past couple of years as the football team has suffered through back-to-back … [Read more...]