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May 2025
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Hill: Nike EYBL shows what Memphis Sports and Events Center can do
Nike’s Elite Youth Basketball League session is expected to bring more than 400 basketball coaches and scouts to the Memphis area and fill more than 8,000 hotel rooms across the city.
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Buckley: In 1975, LeMoyne-Owen won it all. Too few in Memphis remember.
Fifty years ago, a team of Magicians now largely forgotten won the only college basketball national championship Memphis has ever known.
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Feeling a certain ennui about life? Have you tried mahjong?
The Chinese tile game is social, strategic and good for one’s cognitive ability. It’s also becoming increasingly popular.
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Launched in a pandemic, ZüpMed offers a different kind of medicine
Now the cash-based, concierge-style medical practice has a waiting list for memberships and is doubling its space at Laurelwood Shopping Center.
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Golf tournament might hit $1M in donations to Make-a-Wish this year
Brooke Ehrhart, vice president of development at Make-A-Wish Mid-South, said the Memphis Area Association of Realtors Commercial Council tournament this year will grant a Senatobia, Mississippi, child’s wish to swim with pigs in Hawaii.
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Southaven’s mixed-use districts reshape city
With attractions such as Snowden Grove, Top of the Sipp and Silo Square, Southaven is drawing visitors while providing interests for local residents.
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Grisanti touch comes to Marshall Steakhouse
Chef Judd Grisanti, a name famous on the local restaurant scene, is bringing his Italian cuisine to Marshall Steakhouse near Holly Springs.
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Redbirds recap: Memphis loses to Nashville
The Memphis Redbirds fell short in game five of a six-game series against the Nashville Sounds.
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Showboats work overtime, but get second win of season
Memphis defeats San Antonio 24-22 Friday at the Alamodome in San Antonio, Texas, to improve to 2-6 on the season.
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Redbirds recap: Memphis snaps losing streak with win over Nashville
Designated hitter Luken Baker clubbed two home runs, the 87th and 88th home runs of his Memphis career.
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Food Files: Bahama Breeze closes, Second Line goes Hawaiian
A new coffee shop is opening in Midtown, and people may “Just Love” it.
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St. Jude graduates its largest kindergarten class ever
Imagine Academy is designed to help St. Jude patients keep up with their classwork when their treatment requires them to be away from home for extended periods.
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Nike EYBL is in town. Here are some top players to watch.
Just less than a quarter mile from Tiger Lane, some of the best high school basketball players in the country will all be under one roof as part of the Nike Elite Youth Basketball League.
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Martin: Memphis native Curtis Givens III is visiting the University of Memphis. Is a commitment next?
Givens, a former four-star point guard, is also fielding interest from Ole Miss, BYU, Villanova, Maryland, USC, Vanderbilt and others.
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SmokeSlam’s back on the river, bigger and smokier
The second installment of SmokeSlam began Thursday as thousands poured into Downtown’s Tom Lee Park while the Memphis in May World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest continued at Liberty Park in Midtown.
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Arts Beat: Meagan Good to star in Jarnell Stokes film; La Chat doc premieres in France
A former Grizz player’s movie names its lead actor, La Chat doc premieres in France and Memphis must say goodbye to a nostalgic theater.
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As Medical District High seniors graduate, they’re already juniors in college
The students graduated high school on Wednesday, and on Thursday received college diplomas from Southwest Tennessee Community College.
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Iconic blue dog paintings replaced
The owners of Union Centre changed the iconic blue dog art in late April. Only one blue dog painting remains on the building.
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How did Riverbeat perform in year two?
With 30,000 tickets scanned for the three-day music festival in Tom Lee Park, how did Riverbeat compare to its previous year?
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Calkins: Incredibly, the Central High jazz band did it. They won the whole thing.
The Central High jazz band did it. They defeated bands from across the country — and around the world — to win the Essentially Ellington contest in New York. And, yes, there were many tears.
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XAI partnership looking at Southaven natural gas plant
Earlier this month, MLGW said xAI could need more power than the Tennessee Valley Authority, the region’s energy provider, can supply.
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Bailey: New schools provide space and some relief
Two new schools in the eastern suburbs will provide more space for the student bodies, allow for expansion of curriculum and, in one case, provide temporary relief for parents concerned about students changing schools.
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Collierville leaders question fluoridated water
Additional research about the impact of fluoride on other communities will be shared with the Board of Mayor and Aldermen before they make any determination.
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The Early Word: xAI is making power moves, and Second Line says ‘aloha’
MEM works on better parking, Collierville leaders worry about fluoride and Nike gives us a reason to say “Ohhh, Yeah!”
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