‘She said yes!’: Die-hard Tiger fans get engaged during FAU game
Josh Ashpole proposed to his fiancee Raechelle Pettigrew during the Memphis Tigers game at FedExForum Sunday, Feb. 25. The couple are Memphis natives and die-hard Tiger fans. (Courtesy Ranulfo "Rango" Gonzalez)
There was no place Josh Ashpole would’ve rather popped the question to his girlfriend of six years than at a Tigers game inside FedExForum.
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Parth Upadhyaya
Parth Upadhyaya covers the Memphis Tigers men’s basketball team. A Raleigh, N.C., native and a graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill’s Hussman School of Media and Journalism, Upadhyaya is a longtime college hoops junkie. Prior to joining The Daily Memphian in 2022, he covered high school sports in western Pennsylvania for the Beaver County Times and Penn State football for the Centre Daily Times.
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