Calkins: Hey, Memphians, there’s good news on COVID-19 (so you’re allowed to embrace it)
The experts are "optimistic and hopeful" about the trajectory of COVID-19 in Memphis. So you can be, too.
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 :
-
May 2020
-
Geoff Calkins -
Premium
Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Memphis football’s testing plan is out. Is it good enough?
When Memphis football players start returning to campus for voluntary workouts on June 6, they'll be tested for COVID-19. There are no plans for regular, asymptomatic testing after that. Is that ideal? Maybe not. But, as a country, it's what we do.
-
Premium
Geoff CalkinsCalkins: 78 youth baseball teams are playing in Memphis this weekend – let’s hope they are safe at home
Seventy-eight youth baseball teams are playing a tournament at GameDay in Cordova this weekend. It is scary beautiful.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: Memphis football will be ‘moving forward in the near future’
In the wake of Wednesday's NCAA vote to allow football and men's and women's basketball players to return to campus starting June 1, Memphis president David Rudd says the athletic department has a plan for football players to return "in the near future."
-
Premium
Geoff CalkinsCalkins: She went the wrong way down the grocery aisle (and there’s nothing to be done about it)
You see it all the time when you're out shopping — people breaking the new norms around COVID-19. So what's to be done about it? Nothing at all.
-
Spirit of Memphis Calkins: Gibson’s is open! And life has sprinkles again!
There was a line of people waiting when Gibson's Donuts re-opened at 5 a.m. Friday. They weren't just there for the donuts. They were there for the joy.
-
Premium
Spirit of MemphisCalkins: Pepper Rodgers believed in Memphis before it was fashionable
Pepper Rodgers died Thursday at the age of 88. He wasn't just a football coach. He was a civic salesman when Memphis needed it most.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: Johnathan Lawson gets an offer from Memphis — and at long last, a bitter feud may be at an end
Johnathan Lawson received a scholarship offer to play basketball at Memphis. So the long, twisted saga of the Lawson family at Memphis may have a happy end.
-
Memphis Tigers Basketball Calkins: Nearly eight years after committing to the school, Austin Nichols got his Memphis degree
He was supposed to be an NBA star. Now he's working at a steel factory. But when Austin Nichols got his diploma Saturday, it came with a feeling of accomplishment unlike any he has known before.
-
Calkins
Spirit of MemphisFor this Mother’s Day, letters (37 of them!) from my Mom
Before Zoom, there were letters. My Mom was the best letter-writer I've ever known.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: Hey, America! We’re Memphis, we’re open for business — and we’re not as crazy as you think
Yes, Memphis and Shelby County are trying to figure out how to do business in in the midst of a pandemic. That's not irrational. It's the only path there is.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: Reopen Memphis? Empty shops and restaurants show it’ll take more than mayors to do that
The government didn't shut down the economy. COVID-19 did that. So it'll take more than the government to open Memphis back up.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: Ready or not, Memphis, it’s time to start reopening. So let’s not screw it up
Memphis and Shelby County will start reopening for business Monday. It's up to Memphians to make sure it's not the disaster many expect.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: A dog, his owner — and one wild & crazy parade
You've seen the parades all over town, haven't you? For birthdays and elementary schools and the like? Well, they had one at Trezevant Manor Thursday. It was the happiest parade of them all.
-
-
April 2020
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: Today’s superhero? A nurse — and father of 7 — who flies to New York to fight coronavirus
Todd Maxwell is a nurse from Byhalia, Mississippi. When the pandemic hit New York, he left his job in Jackson, Tennessee, to fly up and work in a hospital dedicated to COVID-19 patients.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: A rational, bipartisan plan to reopen Memphis and Shelby County? Why are some of you mad?
Area mayors outlined a "Back-to-business" framework Monday. The framework did not include a definite starting date — and that's a good thing.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: Coronavirus canceled his first marathon. So he ran it anyway. Alone.
Nate Franklin trained to run his first marathon on his 26th birthday. When it was postponed by COVID-19, he decided to run it anyway. It's a lesson for us all.
-
Memphis Tigers Football Former Memphis Tiger dies of COVID-19
Dennis Bradshaw, former quarterback at the University of Memphis, died Saturday of COVID-19 at the age of 62.
-
Premium
Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Landers Nolley is the good news that Memphis Tiger fans need
Virginia Tech transfer Landers Nolley is headed to Memphis. That's great news for a program that has been in need of some.
-
Premium
Geoff CalkinsCalkins: A bittersweet day as Tyler Harris decides to leave the city he loves
Tyler Harris has decided to transfer. With the expected arrival of Virginia Tech transfer Landers Nolley, it makes all the sense in the world. But Memphis fans should be forever grateful to Harris for reaffirming the connection between the Tigers and the town.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: For Rev. Eli Morris and Hope Church, getting COVID-19 may have been an answered prayer
Eli Morris is feeling better after testing positive for COVID-19. Now he and the rest of the clergy at Hope Church are focusing on those in the community who are facing the same challenges he faced — usually with fewer resources.
-
Premium
Geoff CalkinsCalkins: Why does this keep happening to Memphis basketball?
Jalen Green skips college for the G League. It's the latest disappointment for Penny Hardaway and Memphis basketball.
-
Geoff Calkins Calkins: Super agent Jimmy Sexton is still doing deals — from his back porch
Jimmy Sexton and agents at CAA just negotiated contracts for 43 NFL players worth a total $611.5 million. How do you do that in the midst of pandemic? Well, you start by never leaving your home.
-
Exclusive
Geoff CalkinsCalkins: University of Memphis president David Rudd optimistic there will be students — and football — on campus this fall
University of Memphis president David Rudd told The Daily Memphian that "current indicators would suggest" students will be back on campus in the fall. He's hopeful football will be back, too.
-
Premium
Geoff CalkinsCalkins: How a 62-year-old Marine named Sgt. Tony is winning Facebook Live
Tony Ludlow started his wise-cracking boot camp more than 20 years ago. Now he's beaming it out on Facebook Live.
-