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… [ Continue Reading ]
News & Features
Insights from Brett: Hart Q&A Part 1
View from the East
All hoops hands on deck next week
Joe Dooley has been working with the under-18 national team, but will begin to get an idea next week how his developing group of Pirates will shape up for his first season back on the East Carolina sideline. Dooley returned in early April to a program he guided to a 57-52 record from 1995-96 to… [ Continue Reading ]
The Bradsher Beat
Pirate Nation’s baseball fanatics still undaunted
It’s been ten days since we folded up our chairs and trudged quietly out of the Jungle, shell shocked by the events of an East Carolina-UNC-Wilmington baseball game that lasted nine hours on paper but, in truth, was decided in about thirty minutes. If I still feel an ache, I know that the die-hard Diamond… [ Continue Reading ]
Insights from Brett
Godwin sends signal about program’s status
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… [ Continue Reading ]
View from the East
Godwin extols Pirates’ accomplishments
East Carolina vaulted into the national rankings in February after taking two of three games from North Carolina in a multi-site series. The Pirates remained among the country’s elite during an exceptional season. ECU (44-18) was knocked out of the NCAA Tournament in a regional at Clark-LeClair Stadium that included lengthy delays from Mother Nature… [ Continue Reading ]
The Bradsher Beat
One ECU team’s season is still alive
More than 400 East Carolina student-athletes started the 2017-’18 school year after a summer of training, full of hopes for their upcoming season. After campaigns for 18 different sports with varying degrees of success, only two are still competing. Hosting a regional didn’t end the way the baseball team or the Pirate Nation had hoped,… [ Continue Reading ]
Football Recruiting
ECU lands a power back with speed in Thompson
Call it love at first sight for Shemar Thompson and the East Carolina Pirates. ECU running backs coach Jason Nichols evaluated video of Thompson in early December last year during a stop at Walter M. Williams High School in Burlington, NC. Nichols was so impressed by what he saw of the 6-foot-1, 205-pound running back… [ Continue Reading ]