Calkins: Ripping Penny Hardaway for this season isn’t ‘hilarious’ — it’s dumb
University of Memphis coach Penny Hardaway directs his team on the court during the Tigers' game on Feb. 8, 2020, against USF at the FedExForum. (Jim Weber/Daily Memphian)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
It's ridiculous — and ungrateful — for Memphis fans to criticize Penny Hardaway in this calamitous year.
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