College football season begins this weekend with seven games — including Notre Dame and Navy playing across the pond in Dublin — followed a week later by a full slate that will see all seven […]
East Carolina is looking to take another step as a program despite some big losses up front. The Pirates are coming off an 8-5 season in which they went 4-4 in conference play, although it […]
Spring in North Carolina is known for its inconsistency, with bitter cold bringing back memories of winter and sweltering heat foreshadowing the summer to come, often on the same day. Spring is also a time […]
Time is on East Carolina’s side in this week’s game against Cincinnati. The Pirates, winners of three straight, including an upset at BYU that made ECU bowl eligible at 6-3, 3-2 in the AAC, are […]
The pecking order in college football is becoming clearer, and that is also true in North Carolina. While the start of the season included NC State edging ECU, UNC’s barn-burning win over App State and, […]
GREENVILLE — East Carolina heads to Tulane this weekend for a key game that will not only impact the American Athletic Conference standings but could also determine if the Pirates return to a bowl game […]
When UCF travels to East Carolina on Saturday, both teams will be testing college football’s 24-hour rule. The old coach-speak adage dictates that a team not celebrate a win for more than 24 hours to […]
RALEIGH — When East Carolina and 13th-ranked NC State meet Saturday, it will be the 32nd time the two programs have played but just the fifth time it’s happened in Greenville. For the Wolfpack, who […]
Houston, we have a program. After two losing seasons as Pirates head coach, Mike Houston doubled his win total at East Carolina with seven wins last year. A good measure of just how far the […]
GREENVILLE — As a youngster growing up in Greenville, Holton Ahlers’ childhood memories are filled with the experiences of football Saturdays at East Carolina. Just not the games themselves. “Obviously I remember all the big […]
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