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Buckley: Collin Morikawa birdies, St. Jude benefits. That’s a win-win.
Every birdie by Collin Morikawa this week at TPC Southwind is money in the bag for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.Related content:
Tim Buckley
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.
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GolfBuckley: Viktor Hovland is in love. With Memphis’ TPC Southwind.
TPC Southwind hasn’t always been kind to Viktor Hovland, especially at 18. But last year’s FedEx Cup champion has no grudge with the Memphis course. “I love this place,” he said.
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SportsBuckley: Big 12, ACC pros and cons as Memphis looks to leave AAC
The Memphis Tigers’ aspirations to join a higher-profile league than their current one, the American Athletic Conference, are no secret.
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Sports Memphis Showboats head coach will not return in 2025
After leading the Showboats to a 2-8 record in his one and only season, Memphis and head coach John DeFilippo have parted ways. The team’s general manager is out too.
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SportsMemphis deputy athletic director Jeff Crane leaving for South Carolina
The development comes about a month after Memphis tapped Virginia deputy AD Ed Scott to be its new athletic director.
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Memphis Tigers FootballBuckley: Ryan Silverfield’s Tigers are on a real roll
“Expectations for coach Ryan Silverfield’s Memphis Tigers in 2024 really are through the roof, which prompts this question: How in the world does one go about managing them?”
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Memphis Tigers BasketballMemphis Tigers basketball: 2024 transfer portal tracker
A look at players going into and coming out of the NCAA transfer portal for the Memphis Tigers basketball program prior to the 2024-25 season.
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Memphis Tigers FootballMemphis Tigers football recruiting tracker: Class of 2025 commits
The NCAA’s Class of 2025 football early signing period opens Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024.
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SportsNew Memphis Tigers athletic director has a long to-do list
New University of Memphis athletic director Ed Scott must juggle building his leadership team, raising money for stadium renovation and filling a vacant head coaching position with building corporate support, selling tickets and making critical NIL-related decisions.
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Memphis Tigers FootballBuckley: Silverfield doesn’t sweat hours spent pursuing NIL dollars
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.
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SportsWhy Bears safety Quindell Johnson stayed with Memphis, despite other NIL offers
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.
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SportsBasketball, football and NIL: Making money as a Memphis Tiger
With NIL becoming bigger and bigger — the disparity among how much each student-athlete is paid seems bound to grow wider and wider.
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Memphis Tigers FootballLifting the veil off NIL: How the Memphis Tigers really get it done
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.
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SportsEd Scott’s resume prepares him for whatever comes Memphis’ way
“My tool kit is robust, having dealt with major infractions at Morgan State,” new Memphis Tigers athletic director says.
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SportsBuckley: Tia’s dad won the day as Memphis’ new athletic director
Ed Scott and his young daughter Tia are a hit with Memphis Tigers supporters as he is introduced as the school’s new AD.
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Ed Scott’s resume prepares him for whatever comes Memphis’ way
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SportsAs Tigers welcome new AD, college sports world remains maddeningly uncertain
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.
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Sports Memphis Tigers name Ed Scott athletic director
Memphis’ new athletic director is called “a forward-thinking, transformative leader with the vision to help us achieve the full potential of Tiger athletics.”
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Memphis Tigers Football Memphis Tigers zero in on Ed Scott as new athletic director
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.
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SportsInterim AD, two others added to Tigers athletic director search
The Memphis Tigers now are expected to interview up to 10 candidates for their vacant athletic director job, including current interim AD Jeff Crane.
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SportsCandidates for U of M athletic director identified
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.
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SportsGabrielle Rose’s bid to make Olympic team in 200 breaststroke falls short
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.
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Sports Memphis-raised Gabrielle Rose advances in US Olympic Trials
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.
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SportsBuckley: Survival in Memphis no easy chore for the Showboats
What will it take for survival in a Memphis market that tends to spit out its minor-league football franchises like pickled pig tongue?
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SportsBuckley: AutoZone Liberty Bowl staying in Memphis? Just wondering.
Executive director Steve Ehrhart addresses the question of where he anticipates this year’s AutoZone Liberty Bowl will be played.
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SportsBuckley: ‘No doubts the Showboats will continue in Memphis,’ marketing man says
The Memphis Showboats aren’t leaving Memphis. Marketing man Steve Macy shouts it from the rooftop.
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