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Baseball Beckons: A Real Opportunity Exists for the Pirates in the Competitive Chapel Hill Regional
If you follow all the NCAA baseball pundits, there are some common themes when it comes to analyzing the 2026 Chapel Hill Regional tourney. All three themes point to this regional being a very competitive one where you wouldn’t be…
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It’s the Trenches Dummy! Easy to ID Needs, Hard to Find & Build Talent
Every year, it seems, in the run up to the ECU football season, fans will engage in conversations asking, “will the Pirates finally compete?” or “Will ECU have a winning season?” There is usually no shortage of big names to…
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Incoming: Houston’s Past with Transfers may Bode well for the Pirates’ Future
Despite the current up-in-the-air status of college football, ECU Coach Mike Houston and his staff have not let up on opening the door for a host of transfers coming into the program…and they come from powerhouse programs like Alabama and…
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No Baseball was a Kick in the Booty; Can Pirate Nation Survive without Football?
So us fans were all sitting there, stinging from a 5-2 road loss at UNC-Wilmington. It was March 11th, and at least for this Pirate fan, the loss to one of our regional rivals was only a glancing blow because…
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Getting the Pledge and Keeping it are very different things in football recruiting
They got No. 4! The Pirates’ win against hapless UConn wasn’t a blowout…was even a big step back in level of play from its previous two outings in narrow losses to Top 25 teams, but it was as important a…
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Corner Turning Opportunity Awaits Pirates in Road Clash Against UConn Huskies
What’s in a number? Everything for this ECU Program. After two-straight, narrow losses to higher profile and top-25 ranked teams, ECU’s goal to get off the three-win plateau this season comes down to this: a late-season, inauspicious clash between…
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Game of Glimpses: Seeing the Future in a Collection of Temple Game Moments
You learn a lot, they say, in competitive losses. Let’s face it, as an East Carolina University football fan, there has been a lot of losing over the last three years to examine. Only problem was, after each loss, pretty…
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Pirates Youth Could Serve itself Well in Thursday Night AAC Clash in DFS
In 1931, writer Ted Cook in his “Cook-Coos” syndicated column ascribed a quote to Irish dramatist George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) wherein Cook referred to an interview given by Shaw where in response to a question the dramatist said, “Youth is…
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Who’d Have Thunk It? ECU’s trip to ODU may be Looked Back Upon as Pivotal
Boy have the times changed. Is it possible that this weekend’s clash at Old Dominion University (ODU) could be marked down in history as a watershed moment in the ECU football program’s continuum? Here ECU sits in its history, reeling…
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