The past two games indicate some of the bigger problems might be resolved. Now it’s time to get to the details.

Jan. 24, 2021: University of Memphis Tigers 80, East Carolina University Pirates 53

Plus: We’re accepting submissions to the mailbag, but with a twist.

The Grizzlies have now had six games postponed this season. 

'We lost a legend today,' Penny Hardaway says

Johnson, who was 102, was the first Black coach to win a Division III national basketball title. 

The health department reported five additional deaths among people who tested positive for COVID-19. A total of 1,187 people in Shelby County have died who had the virus. The number of Tennesseans who tested positive and died is 8,859.

Historic building 'a linchpin' for Orange Mound community

Melrose School has been an anchor in Orange Mound for 83 years and will soon have a second life.

Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty pushed the narrative that Republican-led states were getting less money in the relief bill at the expense of Democratic led states. 

Holly Jansen Fulkerson started work as executive director of Memphis Heritage in January 2020, and resigned on Thursday, Feb. 4.

Marquette signee led the city in scoring in 2020-21 and carried his team to a second straight state tournament berth.

The week of sales: Earnestine & Hazel’s will open soon, Tops has sold real estate but no food changes there, and Leonard’s needs a buyer or else. Read about Dave & Amanda Krog’s path to opening their new restaurants, and there’s cake and cookie news, too.

Germantown Baptist Church’s vaccination site was dedicated to teacher inoculations Friday. Collierville Schools and Germantown Municipal School District collaborated to offer the vaccine to their employees.

The February freeze has left Mid-South gardeners worried that their plants might not survive.

Sheree Renée Thomas was named editor of the venerable Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, and she’s one of the authors included in “Black Panther: Tales of Wakanda,” which comes out March 9.

The vaccine distribution debacle on Mayor Lee Harris’ watch will figure prominently in the GOP campaign to retake his office, the party’s Shelby County executive director says. 

On The Daily Memphian Politics Podcast, City Council member Chase Carlisle talks about bargaining with TVA for a new contract with MLGW without a specific plan for an alternative, his call for the resignation of the Shelby County Health Department’s embattled leader and the 2022 race for Shelby County mayor.