Calkins: Who are those guys the Memphis Tigers just beat by 75?
Meet the cops, porters and laundry workers that make up Bahamas Select
NPBA Select defender Devon Ferguson (right) tries to cover Tigers forward Lance Thomas (middle) in the exhibition game in Nassau, Bahamas, Thursday, August 15, 2019. (Mark Weber/Daily Memphian).
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Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. 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.
Why did so many of the players on the Bahamas Select team arrive after Memphis game began? Because they just got off work, of course.
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