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Calkins: Bango! Grizzlies shoot their way to a win
With their record-setting performance, led by Kyle Anderson, their swagger seems to be back.
Geoff Calkins
Columnist
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.
There are 974 articles by Geoff Calkins :
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Spirit of Memphis Calkins: Rob Fischer has thought hard about killing himself. Now he wants to help others who feel lost
Rob Fischer is the warm, cheerful sideline reporter for the Grizzlies TV broadcasts. He also suffers from suicidal depression. He’s telling his story because he thinks it may help.
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Spirit of MemphisCalkins: Alex Lomax deserves to lead Memphis back to the NCAA Tournament
Alex Lomax said it would be a “dream come true” to lead Memphis back to the NCAA tournament. Against ECU, he kept that dream alive through sheer force of will.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: From ‘bush league’ (Tennessee) to ‘a better place’ (Memphis)
Star wide receiver Roc Taylor was jilted by Tennessee and landed at Memphis. He and his coach both say Taylor ended up at the better program.
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January 2021
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Geoff CalkinsGeoff Calkins: Watch out NBA, fourth-quarter Ja Morant is back
The Grizzlies returned from their 12-day absence with a vengeance. Ja Morant led the way yet again.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: The Memphis Tigers may finally be learning to win
The Tigers didn’t just defeat SMU at FedExForum Tuesday night. They showed the ability to fight back.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: For the past two weeks, I’ve had COVID. Here is what I learned.
I was stunned when I tested positive for COVID. In the course of recovering, I learned a few things.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: A graveside concert for the leader of the band
Joe Sills — a legendary high school band director throughout West Tennessee — died of COVID-19. His former students are gathering to play a graveside concert in his honor Saturday. One of them will be playing Sills’ own silver trumpet.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Electric performance by Memphis was ‘a long time coming’
After months of frustration, the Tigers’ performance against Wichita State was reason to exhale.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: Ja Morant and ‘a bunch of hoopers’ save a special day
It would have been sweeter if 18,000 Memphians had been jammed into FedExForum. But Ja Morant made sure this MLK Day game ended with a win.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: A Tiger loss, a Tiger death, and why hope is the only answer
Phinehas Johnson was one of the biggest, most upbeat Memphis Tigers fans in the universe. He died last week. In the wake of yet another discouraging loss, can he teach us something about how to persevere?
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: Titans’ OC Arthur Smith got where he is the Memphis way — with grit and grind
If you see some of the old Memphis Grizzlies in the Tennessee Titans, that's not an accident. The offensive coordinator is native Memphian Arthur Smith.
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Memphis Tigers Football Calkins: Silverfield adds another impact transfer (this one will lick his face)
Memphis coach Ryan Silverfield added a transfer this week with excellent quickness and a low center of gravity. Happily, it’s a dog.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: Collierville coach mourns fallen Capitol Hill police officer, who studied at U of M
Scott Robinson, the basketball coach at Collierville High School, became close with Howard Liebengood at Memphis. He sent Liebengood a text after the Capitol was attacked. Now Robinson is mourning his friend.
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Spirit of MemphisCalkins: Brady White is the greatest winner to call the Liberty Bowl home
For White and the Liberty Bowl, it was love at first sight. On Saturday, White plans to bid farewell with another win.
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Spirit of Memphis Calkins: An 8-year-old St. Jude kid with a lesson for these times
Jonah McCoy, 8, is a patient at St. Jude. He could teach us a thing or two.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: Times they are a-changin', as the NFL throws its support behind Just City
The NFL has granted $200,000 to Just City as part of the league’s social justice initiative. The money is important – but so is the message the money sends.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: For Marc Gasol, home is where the Memphians are
Marc Gasol may have played in FedExForum Sunday, but it wasn’t his “return” to the city. Why? Because y’all weren’t there.
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Metro Calkins: How I know for certain this will be a ‘Happy’ new year
My mother, age 96, got a surprising Christmas present. Let us hope it foreshadows the year to come.
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December 2020
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: Gather ‘round, for the story of a Santa who died (really) this Christmas Eve
A West Tennessee mall Santa named Gill Kiper died of a massive heart attack on Christmas Eve. But before you dismiss this as the most 2020 story ever, you should know it has joyous parts, too.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: With disaster looming, Alex Lomax saved the day
It wasn’t Penny Hardaway’s new “lion set” offense that carried Memphis to a win over South Florida. It was Alex Lomax’s Tiger pride.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Ja Morant in a wheelchair? NOOOOOOOOOOOO!
When the guard left the court in a wheelchair Monday night, Grizzlies fans reacted with all the horror you’d expect.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: Ja Morant and Brady White made it a memorable Memphis night
Ja Morant was brilliant in the first game of his season; Brady White was triumphant in the last game of his career. Together, they made it a night that Memphians won’t soon forget.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: A girl, an egg and the meaning of Christmas
An old-time Christmas story, read aloud by Scott Morris, Kirk Whalum and Geoff Calkins.
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Memphis GrizzliesCalkins: Grizzlies tip off 20 years — and hopefully 20 more
There is a lease provision that has to be dealt with, but right now there’s no reason Memphis and its touchstone can’t work things out.
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