East Carolina Coach Joe Dooley would have liked nothing more than to have come into this second stint in Greenville and won right away. That didn’t happen last year during a 10-21 campaign highlighted by the upset win over Cincinnati. This year, Dooley’s Pirates are off to a 1-3 start after falling to a big,… [ More… ]
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Déjà vu all over again
Last week Pirate quarterback Holton Ahlers became the first East Carolina player in history to throw for over 500 yards in a game. This past week at Southern Methodist he came within two yards of duplicating the feat. One of Yogi Berra’s greatest quotes was thinking something was ‘deja vu all over again.’ Ahlers performance… [ More… ]
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WNCT-TV sports director and Bonesville columnist Brian Bailey and his wife, Melissa, arrived early and took a side trip to Jerry Jones country during their time in Dallas last weekend to cover the ECU-SMU game. The Baileys toured the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium and The Star, the Cowboys’ World Headquarters in nearby Frisco. Bailey brought… [ More… ]
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Loss doesn’t erase record shattering night
Jeff Blake never did it. Marcus Crandell and David Garrard never did it. Shane Carden also never did it. The ‘it’ was to throw for over 500 yards in a game at East Carolina. Pirate sophomore Holton Ahlers did ‘it’ Saturday night in ECU’s 46-43 loss to No. 17 Cincinnati. Ahlers would have given back… [ More… ]
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Bigger tests ahead after big step backwards
East Carolina fans filtered into Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium for Homecoming looking for their team to continue to build on the squad’s strong second half at Central Florida the week before. The day got off to the best of starts. Tyler Snead caught the opening kickoff on his goal line. He took his time to find a… [ More… ]
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A glimpse of the future
Pirate fans got a glimpse of the future in the second half of Saturday night’s 41-28 loss at Central Florida. The first half was all too familiar to the East Carolina faithful, as the Knights bolted out to a 35-6 lead. Absolutely nothing was going right. The Pirates could have easily folded their hand and… [ More… ]
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Dooley & Co. will be fighting for respect
East Carolina will open the basketball season in search of respect from the rest of the American Athletic Conference. Coach Joe Dooley’s Pirates were picked 11th of 12 teams in the American Preseason Coaches’ Poll on Monday. Dooley and sophomore forward Jayden Gardner represented ECU at the league’s annual Media Day in Philadelphia. Memphis and… [ More… ]