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Compiled from staff reports and electronic dispatches

Lou Holtz speaks to East Carolina gridders

Legendary coach Lou Holtz spoke to the East Carolina football team after Monday's spring workout. The retired coach is the father of Pirates coach Skip Holtz.

ECU will conduct a comparatively light spring workout in football today, according to a release from the university's sports media relations department.

The Pirates had a relatively demanding workout on Monday, which followed their first spring scrimmage on Friday night.

ECU returned to the FieldTurf surface of the Cliff Moore Practice Complex on Monday and turned in an enthusiastic 140-minute workout in full pads.

Head coach Skip Holtz and his staff are nearing the completion of tape evaluations of the scrimmage and the development of ECU's first public depth chart which will be released Wednesday afternoon.

"I think we accomplished what we set out to do," Holtz said after reviewing the 110-play controlled scrimmage. "Again, it wasn't a typical scrimmage in a traditional sense with the 10-play possessions and the situational looks we operated in but we certainly got some good tape out of it."

Monday's practice was ECU's 10th of the spring period, leaving just five more sessions to be conducted, including a second scrimmage scheduled for Friday afternoon and the playing of the Purple-Gold Game on April 8.

Holtz opted to put the Pirates back in pads after Friday's physical contest to get a closer look at what he described as "some unfinished business" before planning to oversee a light helmet and shorts workout Wednesday.

"There were a lot of positives, but we're still a long way from being a team," Holtz said. "We're a little farther away than I'd like, which is why we wanted another scrimmage-type, physical day."

After conducting brief standard individual sessions to open Monday's practice, the Pirates spent the majority of the segment working primarily on team drills, concentrating on situational tendencies such as down and distance and red-zone efficiency on both sides of the ball.

"Right now, we have a bunch of guys who are twos and we need them to move up a level," Holtz said. "While we have to put a lot of stock in a two-deep at this stage because it's where we are right now, it'll change after Friday's scrimmage and again after the spring game."

Lou Holtz, one of college football's all-time winningest coaches, observed the workout of his son's team Monday before addressing squad.

C-USA baseball on television

Three Conference USA games are scheduled to air on CSTV this spring. The first game will be televised this Friday night when No. 6 Rice and No. 11 Tulane meet in a rematch of last year's New Orleans Super Regional at 7:30 p.m. Carter Blackburn will provide the play-by-play, while former major leaguer Kevin Stocker will serve as the analyst.

On Sunday, April 9, Tulane's 5 p.m. game at Houston will be shown.

CSTV will air the C-USA Tournament championship game on Sunday, May 28 at 9 p.m., according to the C-USA web site.

Duke lacrosse in limbo

Duke University President Richard H. Brodhead announced Tuesday that the university is suspending future games of the Blue Devils' men’s lacrosse team until there is a clearer resolution of the legal situation involving team members.

The action, made in response to a request from team members, was announced on the school's athletic department Website. It follows allegations of a sexual assault of a woman hired as a private dancer at a party attended by team members Mar. 13 at 610 N. Buchanan Blvd.

Durham police are currently looking into the allegations, but no charges have been filed.

Redick, Morrison unanimous choices

Duke's J.J. Redick was selected as a repeat and unanimous choice to the Associated Press All-America team while teammate Shelden Williams also garnered first-team mention, according to an announcement at www.goduke.com.

Adam Morrison of Gonzaga joined Redick as a unanimous selection for the squad. They were joined on the first team by Randy Foye of Villanova and Brandon Roy, Washington's first All-America in 53 years.

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