Tim is a veteran sportswriter who graduated from CBHS in Memphis and the University of Missouri. He previously covered LSU sports in Baton Rouge, and the University of Louisiana football and basketball for The Daily Advertiser/USA TODAY Network in Lafayette, the NBA’s Utah Jazz for the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, the NHL’s Tampa Bay Lightning for the St. Petersburg Times in Florida and West Texas State basketball for the Amarillo Globe News in Texas.
There are 309 articles by Tim Buckley :
The most-awesome gas station and rest stop chain in America will soon be opening a location in Fayette County, and Memphians who haven’t been there don’t know what they are missing.
The UFL’s Memphis Showboats will hold a halftime ceremony Sunday to honor late Showboat legends Reggie White and Pepper Rodgers.
With usual starting quarterback Case Cookus hurting, Coach John DeFilippo had Troy Williams step in. But the Showboats still lost to the Michigan Panthers at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium.
Job posting search firm’s site include job requirements and other qualifications being sought in the Memphis Tigers’ new AD hire.
A look at players from the Memphis Tigers football program who’ve entered the NCAA transfer portal prior to the 2024 season and the Tigers’ latest portal pickups.
When the NCAA and its five power conferences agreed to permit schools to pay players for the first time in college-sports history, athletes, coaches, administrators and fans throughout the country were left with so many questions.
Former Ole Miss Rebels QB Jordan Ta’amu put on quite a display as the DC Defenders handed the Memphis Showboats their eighth straight loss Sunday.
Phase 1 of renovation work at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium is now underway.
David Jones opted to keep his name in the 2024 NBA Draft. The Memphis Tigers basketball program may be better off for it.
The Memphis Showboats aren’t leaving Memphis. Marketing man Steve Macy shouts it from the rooftop.
Executive director Steve Ehrhart addresses the question of where he anticipates this year’s AutoZone Liberty Bowl will be played.Related story:
What will it take for survival in a Memphis market that tends to spit out its minor-league football franchises like pickled pig tongue?
Gabrielle Rose earned a semifinal spot in Sunday night’s 100-meter breaststroke at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team Trials, doing so, amazingly, at the age of 46. Rose, however, did not advance to the finals.
The 46-year old Rose wound up with the 14th-fastest time in preliminary heats Wednesday morning, but was unable to advance out of the semifinals Wednesday night.
Four candidates are expected to interview for the Memphis Tigers vacant AD position. The winning candidate who’s hired could be announced as soon as the end of the month.
The Memphis Tigers now are expected to interview up to 10 candidates for their vacant athletic director job, including current interim AD Jeff Crane.
Virginia deputy athletic director Ed Scott emerged as one of three finalists for the Memphis AD job and all indications are the Tigers plan to hire him.
Memphis’ new athletic director is called “a forward-thinking, transformative leader with the vision to help us achieve the full potential of Tiger athletics.”Related article:
As the U of M waits for its new athletic director’s first day on the job, the rest of the Tigers athletic department traverses a path of unknowns throughout a summer of uncertainty.
Ed Scott and his young daughter Tia are a hit with Memphis Tigers supporters as he is introduced as the school’s new AD. Ed Scott’s resume prepares him for whatever comes Memphis’ wayRelated content:
“My tool kit is robust, having dealt with major infractions at Morgan State,” new Memphis Tigers athletic director says.
Nowadays — three years after NIL was made official on July 1, 2021 — some of college sports’ highest-paid athletes are millionaires in an ecosystem composed of kids, coaches, collectives and even agents.
With NIL becoming bigger and bigger — the disparity among how much each student-athlete is paid seems bound to grow wider and wider.
With power conference schools spending real dollars like Monopoly money since the onset of NIL, Quindell Johnson could have left Memphis for another school before his college career was done.
Chasing dollars on the NIL trail is almost like a second job, even during the off season that should be a respite from the University of Memphis football coach’s crazy calendar.