College basketball begins its new season the way the last one ended — under a cloud of uncertainty. The COVID-19 outbreak went quickly to DEFCON-1 during conference tournaments last season, going from full arenas to […]
GREENVILLE — East Carolina’s defense took a major step forward against an opponent it has traditionally struggled against. But because of an offense depleted by COVID-19 issues and forced to play without starting quarterback Holton […]
The 2020 season hasn’t gone exactly according to plan for the ECU football team. It took three weeks for the Pirates to get onto the field for the first time because of COVID-19 related cancellations […]
It’s mid-October, that time of year when you’ve already eaten the first batch of candy you bought in anticipation of trick-or-treaters, the first Christmas commercials have already begun popping up on television and college football […]
East Carolina couldn’t have asked for a better start to its game with Georgia State, but things quickly nosedived after that. On the first snap of the game, Pirates safety Warren Saba picked off a […]
Wake Forest and Duke are usually something of an afterthought on college football Saturdays compared to in-state rivals with larger, more vocal fan bases. This weekend, however, their home games are likely to garner significantly […]
ATLANTA — Georgia State says the positive COVID-19 tests that caused Saturday’s football game at Charlotte to be postponed were the result of errors in reading the test results. Georgia State said Sunday that student-athletes […]
East Carolina’s long-awaited 2020 football opener wasn’t worth the wait. After having their first two games either canceled or postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic, the Pirates’ return to action was spoiled by a Central […]
Coach Mike Houston and his East Carolina football team are like a harried commuter chasing after the bus they just missed. It’s taken several blocks, or in this case three weeks, but the Pirates have […]
For the second time this week, an in-state college football team has been forced to postpone its season-opening game because of the coronavirus. East Carolina athletic director Jon Gilbert announced Thursday that the Pirates’ game […]
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