Answer the following question: Information: - The Connecticut Huskies, also known as the UConn Huskies, are the athletic teams of the University of Connecticut in the United States. The school is a member of National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I and the American Athletic Conference. The major sports at the university are football (played at Rentschler Field) and men's and women's basketball (played on-campus at Harry A. Gampel Pavilion and off-campus at the XL Center), although many of the other sports have large followings and a tradition of success. UConn is one of only 15 universities in the nation that plays Division I FBS football and Division I men's ice hockey. - The 2008 East Carolina Pirates football team represented East Carolina University in the college football season of 2008 - 09 . and plays their home games in Dowdy - Ficklen Stadium . The team was coached by Skip Holtz , who was in his fifth year with the program . The Pirates have a local television contract with WITN - TV , an NBC affiliate located in Washington , NC who elects to pick up games that are not picked up by national or regional networks , and all games are broadcast over the radio on the Pirate - ISP Sports Network . The flagship radio stations of the Pirates are Pirate Radio 1250 and 930 AM and Oldies 107.9 WNCT , both located in Greenville , NC . The games are called by the '' Voice of the Pirates , '' Jeff Charles . - Louis Leo "Skip" Holtz, Jr. (born March 12, 1964) is an American football coach who is the current head coach at Louisiana Tech University. He was head coach at the University of South Florida from 2010 to 2012 before being released. Prior to 2010, Holtz served as the head coach of the East Carolina University football team. Additionally, Holtz was the head coach of the Connecticut Huskies football team between 1994 and 1998 and an assistant head coach for the University of South Carolina Gamecocks between 1998 and 2004. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'sport' with the subject '2008 east carolina pirates football team'. Choices: - american football - basketball - football - ice hockey - national collegiate athletic association
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american football