Three key plays all went Tulsa’s way on a last-minute scoring drive that gave the Golden Hurricane a 34-30 home win over East Carolina on Friday night. After ECU took a three-point lead with 4:24 […]
No college football team in the state — or perhaps even the country — has been more affected by the coronavirus pandemic than East Carolina. The Pirates didn’t play their season opener until Sept. 26 […]
The coronavirus pandemic has already had a negative effect on East Carolina’s 2020 football season. Not only was its preseason camp temporarily halted because of a COVID-19 outbreak, but it had to wait three weeks […]
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 […]
Barring any last minute surprises, this will mark the first weekend of the college football season in which every game involving a North Carolina team will be played as scheduled. That’s good news for everyone, […]
Another week, another round of COVID-19 related cancellations of college football game involving a North Carolina school. This time, the casualties are the matchup between newly-minted ACC rivals Wake Forest and Notre Dame in Winston-Salem […]
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 […]
The NSJ sports staff is again taking a stab at what will happen in 2020 — and some of the predictions aren’t for the weak-hearted. Sports editor Cory Lavalette and staff writers Brett Friedlander and […]
It’s rivalry week. Sort of. Because while North Carolina and NC State will be meeting at Carter-Finley on a regular-season ending Saturday that also includes such classic rivalries as Alabama-Auburn, Ohio State-Michigan and Georgia-Georgia Tech, […]
GREENVILLE — Trailing by double figures in the final minutes, No. 17 Cincinnati proved something to coach Luke Fickell — and maybe to everyone else, too. The Bearcats rallied to beat East Carolina 46-43 on […]
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