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ECU women's soccer head coach Jason Hamilton provides his thoughts on the AAC pushing the soccer season to the spring.

North Carolina State’s season-opener at Virginia Tech was postponed for two weeks Wednesday because of a cluster of COVID-19 cases among Wolfpack athletes.

NC State has temporarily paused all athletic-related activities due to an identified cluster within its programs.

No. 18 North Carolina is ranked in the preseason for the first time since 2016.

ECU Interim Chancellor Ron Mitchelson said late Sunday morning he is confident Pirate football will play its home opener September 12th against Marshall.

UNC has cleared football and multiple other sports to resume workouts after temporarily pausing all athletics activities earlier this week.

For the college athletes who are heading into a season of uncertainty brought on by COVID-19, the NCAA’s decision to not charge them a year of eligibility — no matter how much they play — brings peace of mind.

There are seven positive cases at Clement Hall and 10 positive cases associated with the football team, according to an alert sent out by ECU.

Because of a continued upward trend in positive Covid-19 tests on campus, Carolina athletics will immediately suspend athletic activities for all sports teams until at least 5 p.m. tomorrow (Thursday, August 20).

Second-year ECU head football coach Mike Houston spoke with the media via Zoom following Tuesday’s practice.

After just one week of in-person classes, UNC-Chapel Hill announced Wednesday it is switching entirely to remote learning. Despite that decision, UNC athletics says it still “expects to play this fall.”

After being held to just one touchdown in ECU's first scrimmage less than a week ago, the Pirates’ offense reached the endzone four times and added three field goals during the program’s second intrasquad contest Friday at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

The Conference Carolinas Board of Directors have postponed all fall sports competition until the spring of 2021 after extensive deliberation. This decision directly impacts Barton College athletics.

The non-conference football game between Marshall and East Carolina, originally set to be played August 29 at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium, has been rescheduled for Sept. 12.

The Barton College football team will have to wait until at least the spring to kickoff its inaugural season.

The Pac-12 CEO Group voted unanimously to postpone all sport competitions through the end of the 2020 calendar year.

The Big Ten Conference announced the postponement of the 2020-21 fall sports season, including all regular-season contests and Big Ten Championships and Tournaments, due to ongoing health and safety concerns related to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Power Five conference commissioners met Sunday to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, and players took to social media to urge leaders to let them play.

East Carolina’s defense enjoyed a decisive upper hand during the Pirates’ first preseason scrimmage Saturday morning at Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium.

UNC football has added Charlotte to its 2020 schedule, and the two in-state foes will meet on the gridiron for the first time on Saturday, Sept. 19 in Chapel Hill.

The Mid-American Conference on Saturday became the first league at college football’s highest level to cancel its fall season because of the pandemic.

ECU director of athletics Jon Gilbert and ECU head football coach Mike Houston provided several updates during a Zoom call with the Greenville media Friday afternoon.

Mike Fox, the winningest active coach in Division I baseball and the first to lead an Atlantic Coast Conference team to four consecutive College World Series, is retiring after 22 seasons at UNC.

Grady-White Boats has committed the largest donation in ECU athletics and Pirate Club history. In recognition of this gift, the ECU athletics complex will be named the Grady-White Boats Athletic Campus.

In football, the plan calls for conference competition to begin Sept. 19 and for each of The American’s teams to play eight conference games on their originally scheduled dates. Nonconference games may be played at the discretion of the individual schools.

"The safety challenges created by COVID-19 place our football student-athletes at an unacceptable level of risk," director of athletics David Benedict said.

The SEC’s university presidents agreed on a 10-game schedule that eliminates all nonconference opponents and is set to begin Sept. 26. The SEC championship game, originally scheduled for Dec. 5, will be pushed back to Dec. 19.

The ACC’s 14 university presidents approved a plan for an 11-game schedule, including one nonconference game, and for pushing back the first week to Sept. 7.

The move affects all four of PCC’s athletic teams, especially women’s volleyball and men’s basketball.

In a statement, Lawson called it “a dream come true” for someone who “wanted to be a coach since I was a kid.”