Zay Jones’ NFL draft experience can best be summed up in a musical lyric from Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones. "You can’t always get what you want. But if you try sometime you just might find, you get what you need.” The record-setting East Carolina wide receiver dearly wanted to be a first-round pick, just like his school Hall of Fame dad Robert Jones was with the … [Read more...]

I don't confess to know nearly as much baseball as I would like to know, but I was on target early in Sunday's rubber match between East Carolina and Tulane. Pirate starting pitcher Jake Agnos wasn't getting any close strike calls and ECU coach Cliff Godwin had seen enough. I told my fellow media members sitting around me that Cliff didn't really want to talk to Agnos. … [Read more...]

GREENVILLE — Luke Bolka hit a two-run homer to left field in the bottom of the ninth to draw East Carolina within a run but Tulane held on for a 5-4 American Athletic Conference win to even the series with the Pirates on Saturday. The deciding matchup of the three-game set is at 3:30 p.m. today. The game was changed from the originally-scheduled time of 11:30 a.m. to … [Read more...]