Calkins: Jeremiah Martin’s brilliant career started in grief but is ending in glory
University of Memphis senior guard Jeremiah Martin (3) raises up for a dunk against East Carolina on Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (Houston Cofield/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.
When Jeremiah Martin is introduced as the starting point guard on Memphis Senior Day, he'll cross himself, point skyward and think about the man whose memory has inspired him throughout his unlikely journey.
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