Former East Carolina, Florida State, Alabama and Tennessee athletic director Dave Hart has been named special advisor to ECU chancellor Cecil Staton to provide guidance to Staton regarding athletics and to head up the search for a head basketball coach. The university announced the appointment in a press release Thursday afternoon. In the wake of an agreement last week by … [Read more...]
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The Bradsher BeatPush to fill vacancies staying under the radar
In the excellent movie "The Post," Katherine Graham is giving a lavish dinner party — a retirement soiree for a friend — when she learns of a highly sensitive and tense situation involving The Washington Post, the newspaper for which she is the publisher, and the potential release of the Pentagon Papers. The consummate DC hostess, Graham does her best to keep the appetizers … [Read more...]
BaseballPirates get walk-off win
GREENVILLE — Andrew Henrickson hit a sacrifice fly to left field that scored pinch runner Dwanya Williams-Sutton with two out in the bottom of the ninth on Wednesday to give No. 17 East Carolina a 2-1 win over Elon at Clark-LeClair Stadium. A bloop double down the right-field line by Jake Washer got the Pirates started in the ninth. Williams-Sutton came in to run and he went … [Read more...]
BaseballVCU shuts out Pirates
GREENVILLE — Connor Gillispie, Michael Dailey and Benjamin Dum of Virginia Commonwealth combined for a three-hit shutout in s 3-0 nonconference win over No.17 East Carolina at Clark-LeClair Stadium on Tuesday. Paul Witt had a two-run single for the Rams (9-8) in the top of the fifth. Josh Simon added an RBI single in the sixth. Gillispie went three innings and yielded one … [Read more...]
From the Anchor DeskECU leaders under the gun to right the ship
The Jeff Compher buyout ends one of the most tumultuous times in East Carolina’s athletics history. The buyout had been rumored for weeks. I even had a chance to ask the soon-to-be former Pirate AD about the situation a couple of weeks ago. Compher said there wasn’t anything to it. It’s been my experience that if there is enough smoke, there is a fire somewhere. So I took … [Read more...]