Geoff Calkins
Calkins: No reason (yet!) to have Memphis in the Top 25
You can’t blame Associated Press voters for leaving the Tigers out of the preseason poll. The program has a recent history of underachieving. This is the year to flip that around.
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.
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November 2020
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Brady White does so much winning
White became the winningest quarterback in school history by leading Memphis to a heart-stopping, face-saving victory over South Florida.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: When will we fill the Liberty Bowl and FedExForum again?
It was a year ago this week that Memphians crammed on to Beale Street for “College GameDay.” When can something like that happen again? I talked to the experts. You may not like what they said.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Loss to Cincinnati reveals a stark truth about these Memphis Tigers
The Bearcats crushed Memphis, 49-10, which shouldn’t have been all that surprising. For reasons largely beyond their control, these Tigers just aren’t that good.
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October 2020
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: Our scary reality makes this the scariest of Halloweens
One Memphis family decided they wanted to really frighten people with their Halloween display this year. So it features Donald Trump.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: The day Memphis defeated Tennessee (and put me in bathrooms everywhere)
The Memphis Tigers have a chance to beat a Top 10 team for the first time since 1996. That win is saved for posterity in framed newspapers all over town.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: A year later, the Memphis Tigers get their revenge
This time, the Tigers defeated the Temple Owls, and it was sweet for Joey Magnifico and Memphis fans everywhere.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: On a Sunday morning at Galloway, a saga of life and death
Bill Turner dropped at the seventh green, felled by a heart attack. His friends say “he was gone.” What happened next is the best Memphis golf story of the year.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: How the Memphis Grizzlies helped a 93-year-old woman vote for president
Jaren Jackson Jr. was voting for president for the first time. 93-year-old Beverly Nash was not. But they crossed paths Wednesday at the Agricenter voting station. And it was beautiful.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: For Brady White and Memphians everywhere, a moment to celebrate
It may not have been the single greatest win in program history, but the Memphis Tigers’s 50-49 victory over UCF Saturday was as emotionally satisfying as any in recent memory. Small wonder Memphians went just a little bit crazy when it was over.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Memphis delivers a historic win — and a lesson for all of us
The Tigers had every reason to quit against UCF on Saturday. Instead, they put together the biggest comeback in the history of the program.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Joey Magnifico and the real-life secret to success
Joey Magnifico is moving rocks. -
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Time for Memphis to finally beat the ‘small-time’ UCF football team
After 13 straight losses to UCF, it’s time for the Memphis Tigers to end that streak.
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Memphis Tigers BasketballCalkins: Hey, Memphis, Joe Jackson wants to work
The former king of Memphis spent the first 28 years of his life in a basketball bubble. Now he’s trying to find a real job.
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Memphis Tigers FootballCalkins: It would’ve been a helluva story, but Memphis screwed up the end
After a month of adversity, this could have been the ultimate example of resilience.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: She went from ‘GameDay’ to unemployment — a brutal year for Memphis athletics
Tammy DeGroff, as integral to Memphis athletics as you can get, is another casualty of the economy.
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September 2020
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: She used her car to rescue more than 100 dogs — until it was stolen
Nearly every weekend, Laura Elliott picks up a collection of rescue dogs that can’t find a home in Memphis and drives them to Illinois, where there are families waiting to adopt. -
Geoff Calkins Calkins: How a sophomore basketball player at BTW wound up dead at a Kroger gas station
A year ago, Cameron Pryor was on a winning team. On Monday, he was killed trying to carjack an SUV. His shooting may have been ruled justified, but the path that took him to that Kroger was a civic tragedy.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Elegy for TOM III, the last real Memphis Tiger
The University of Memphis said the tradition of having a live tiger at games “has come to an end.” It seems like the right decision, but it’s still a sad moment for Memphians.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Shelby County athletes have every right to be ticked
Shelby County athletes are right to ask why everyone else can play sports when they cannot. The honest answer to that question reflects badly on us all.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: When is a party bus not a party bus? And was Ryan Silverfield right to handle this the way he did?
In a blistering statement to the media Monday, the Memphis Tigers coach denied that his players were on such a bus. His anger was understandable. His response was worrisome.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: Could pandemic last another year? A handbook for how to cope
Dr. Anthony Fauci said that it may be late 2021 before life begins to feel normal again. So how to we persevere? Here is the wisdom of three people: Kirk Whalum, a character called “TrashMan” and my 95-year-old mom.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Shocking news! Memphis and Lausanne show it’s hard to play football during a pandemic!
Two local football programs were put on hold Friday because of COVID-19. But don’t blame the players. Blame us.
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Geoff Calkins Calkins: Memphis AD hopes for more fans at games later in year
Here's what athletic director Laird Veatch said of the season opener at the Liberty Bowl and what might get tweaked.
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Geoff CalkinsCalkins: On a sweet, surreal night at the Liberty Bowl, Memphis opens its pandemic season with a win
The band was masked, the stadium was nearly empty of fans. But the Tigers won a football game at the Liberty Bowl Saturday night. For now, that will have to do.
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