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NFL rosters have 114 NC players
With the NFL season kicking off this week, football fans across the state can agree on one thing. We hate Cleveland. The Browns are the only NFL team without a North Carolina product on their […]
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The All-North Carolina NFL team is heavy on linemen
The Carolina Panthers’ opening game may have taken place in Georgia, but there were North Carolina connections everywhere one looked. From the two NC State Wolfpack linemen starting for the Panthers — 2022 first-round draft […]
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McCaffrey’s 3 TDs helps Panthers hold off Minshew, Jaguars
CHARLOTTE — The Carolina Panthers motto is to “Keep Pounding.” They did just that on Sunday, finding a running play they liked and exploiting it time and time again. Using a single-back, inside zone run […]
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Young QBs, new defense show progress in ECU spring football game
GREENVILLE — East Carolina’s quarterback competition won’t be decided until the fall. But no matter who wins the position between Reid Herring, Holton Ahlers and Kingsley Ifedi, his job will be significantly easier because of […]
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Former ECU quarterback Minshew commits to Alabama
Former East Carolina quarterback Gardner Minshew has been rumored to headed to Alabama since he took an official visit there last week. Wednesday, the graduate transfer has made it official by committing to join the […]
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Minshew’s departure leaves ECU with young options at QB
Of all the concerns Scottie Montgomery has heading into his third season as East Carolina’s football coach, the one area in which he didn’t think he’d have to worry is quarterback. But that changed earlier […]
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No. 20 Memphis blows out East Carolina
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Senior quarterback Riley Ferguson passed for 299 yards and three touchdowns as No. 20 Memphis rolled to a 70-13 victory over East Carolina Saturday afternoon at Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium. Memphis (10-1, 7-1 American Athletic […]
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Record-setting effort earns weekly honor for ECU’s Trevon Brown
East Carolina has become synonymous with record-setting wide receivers, with Justin Hardy and Zay Jones setting a high standard for others to follow. Saturday, junior Trevon Brown added his name to the books while earning […]
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ECU comeback bid comes up one yard short in overtime
GREENVILLE — Faced with a fourth-and-one situation in overtime, Tulane gained 16 yards and scored a touchdown. Faced with a similar fourth down call moments later, at the one-yard line, East Carolina’s Darius Pinnix was […]
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ECU defense rises to the occasion in badly needed win against BYU
GREENVILLE — As bad as things have been going for East Carolina’s defense this season, the last thing it needed was for its offense to put it in a bad spot right out of the […]