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Don Wade has been a Memphis journalist since 1998 and he has won awards for both his sports and news/feature writing. He is originally from Kansas City and is married with three sons.
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MLB will have a 60-game season, but with no minor-league season, no St. Louis Cardinals "taxi squad" working out in Memphis and no pop-up league for minor-league free agents. AutoZone Park will not have any pro baseball this year.
The University of Mississippi might find its preferred name of Ole Miss and its Rebels nickname to be targets for change. Plus, you might be more likely to find a bear in the mountains than you are to find homo sapiens wearing masks on the streets of downtown Gatlinburg.
Upper Deck Sports, LLC, out of Huntsville, Alabama, is buying GameDay Baseball in Cordova and USA Stadium in Millington and making a $5 million investment, when including renovations to the facilities.
For decades, the notion of an indoor football practice facility at the University of Memphis was the stuff of dreams, but no longer. The $10.6 million facility is almost finished.
Reflection on a rough week where communication was key in the wake of George Floyd's death, plus other information and stories as part of this week's Sports Notebook.
Have the last few challenging months changed our appetite for the NBA season, especially playing out in a “bubble” laboratory in Orlando? Will fans in Memphis and across the country treat the return of the NBA on TV as a chance to gorge, or will they get their fill sooner than expected?
Blocking and tackling is still a long way off. But, this weekend, Memphis football players returned to campus. Job one: Get their physicals as they continue to absorb the virtual playbook.
The son of a black mother and a white father, Memphis Redbirds manager Ben Johnson grew up in Whitehaven and Germantown with a foot in both worlds. Even after recent events in Minneapolis, he hasn't lost hope for a more civilized America.
This mock NBA draft has some unsettling projections for the Memphis sports fan. Meanwhile, a brewery strikes a blow for everyone offended by those cheating Houston Astros.
The Mike Rose Soccer Complex lost five tournament events to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the impact ran in the "hundreds of thousands of dollars," general manager Kim Talley said.
Catcher Hunter Goodman, who played at Arlington High, is the 11th player in the history of the University of Memphis baseball program to receive All-American by Collegiate Baseball recognition.
If the NBA resumes, it is doubtful the Grizzlies will play at FedExForum. And don't hold your breath that there will be baseball at AutoZone Park.
If MLB games return amid the pandemic, they will do so minus the time-honored baseball tradition of near-constant spitting — or at least that's the goal.
In a battle of trash-talking Tiger teams, the 2019 version used the running of Kenneth Gainwell and his two fourth-quarter touchdowns to defeat the 2014 Tigers in a simulated game.
Sports are returning and, eventually, fans too. But will fears of contracting the coronavirus keep Grizzlies and Memphis Tigers fans home? That depends – on a lot of things.
The 2014 University of Memphis football team kicked off a six-year run of bowl appearances. The 2019 team won the AAC championship and reached the Cotton Bowl. The better team? An "online simulator" will attempt to tell us with a best-of-seven showdown.
Local youth sports venues sustaining substantial losses amid novel coronavirus pandemic, but competitive baseball tournaments could be up and running before the end of May.
Tigers football coach Ryan Silverfield can walk to work; now if only the pandemic would abate so his day could include working with players and staff in person.
When your late mother was a passionate Kansas Jayhawks basketball fan, and you watched the title game vs. Memphis with her, you look at April 7, 2008, through a different lens.
Fans need college football. Players and coaches need college football. But most of all, athletic departments need college football. The question is, will COVID-19 cooperate?
Coronavirus shut down the college baseball season and is causing some summer leagues to cancel their season. That means some University of Memphis players may be scrambling to find a place to play, or sitting out yet again.
The handshake is a time-honored tradition in sports (mostly), but Dr. Anthony Fauci's suggestion that we never shake hands again could change this ritual of sportsmanship at every level and, in turn, the way competitors view the games and one another.
Even without a pandemic, Memphis Little League was taking on a huge challenge in keeping baseball alive in the African-American community.
Although the stress and isolation of shelter-in-place my push some people "to the brink," most of us are fighting a day-to-day grind to stay engaged, not be bored, and keep the faith until society returns to the old normal we took for granted.