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… [ 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… [ 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… [ 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.… [ More… ]

The first step toward rebuilding a struggling program — before the first game is played or the first new recruit signed — is for the new coach to convince those already in the program to buy into what he’s selling. In the case of new East Carolina football coach Mike Houston, that process is already… [ More… ]

Of all the criticisms that were aimed at former athletic director Jeff Compher — and there were plenty of them, to be sure — the loudest and most frequent usually dealt with his inability to connect with East Carolina’s passionate fan base. It’s safe to say he wasn’t much of a people person, especially when… [ More… ]