Roy Williams has been known to admonish North Carolina basketball fans when they don’t show up for games in numbers to his liking. Saturday, though, the Hall of Fame coach was overjoyed by the sight […]
Eight months after eliminating four sports as a cost-cutting measure, East Carolina has reinstated its women’s swimming and women’s tennis programs. The move, which was announced last Thursday, comes as part of a settlement designed […]
East Carolina’s basketball game at Wichita State, scheduled for Wednesday, has been postponed because of positive COVID-19 cases and the ensuing contact tracing of student-athletes among the Pirates. “After consultation with our medical staff, we […]
East Carolina was scheduled to begin the 2020-21 basketball season on Wednesday with a game against Indiana State as part of the Gulf Coast Showcase in Fort Myers, Florida. But because of concerns surrounding the […]
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 […]
Early in the coronavirus pandemic, college administrators — including ACC commissioner John Swofford — were adamant in their assertion that the only way fall sports could take place this year is if students were back […]
East Carolina has announced that athletic activities, including football practice, will resume on Wednesday. The decision was made after a second round of COVID-19 testing was conducted among the school’s athletes, coaches and staff taking […]
Lindsay Takkunen’s first reaction to the news that East Carolina was eliminating its swimming and diving teams was sadness. Then her competitive nature set in and she decided to take action. Upset over the decision and […]
On Sept. 1, 2007, Appalachian State pulled off what is generally considered the biggest upset in college football history when it went to Michigan and beat the fifth-ranked Wolverines 34-32 in front of 109,208 stunned […]
Jon Gilbert stepped to the microphone and delivered the bad news at a press conference Thursday. But it was the 12 seconds of silence, as the East Carolina athletic director fought to compose himself as […]
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