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 […]
Ties became a thing of the past during college football’s regular season with the advent of overtime. But they’re still alive and well in the spring, as North Carolina and East Carolina proved on Saturday. […]
NC State and East Carolina both had their season-ending football bowl games canceled when their respective opponents pulled out because of COVID protocols. But that’s where the similarities between their situations end. As a young, […]
East Carolina ended a seven-year postseason drought when it was invited to participate in the Military Bowl. Because of COVID-19, the Pirates will have to wait at least one more year to actually play a […]
David Cutcliffe has shown that it is, in fact, possible to win at Duke, which means that the job he is leaving is much more desirable than the one he inherited. As Duke begins its […]
The East Carolina football team clinched its first winning season in seven years with a thrilling last-second victory at Navy two weeks ago. Next month, the Pirates will return to Annapolis for their first bowl […]
For one quarter, East Carolina appeared to be ready to render all the debate over Cincinnati moot. The Bearcats entered the game at 11-0 on the season and occupied spot No. 4 in the most […]
Every week, it seems, the East Carolina football team checks another goal off its to-do list. There was the overtime win at Memphis that earned bowl eligibility for the first time since 2014. That was […]
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