Calkins: No, this is not what Grizzlies fans wanted. But here’s where to find hope.
No, the Grizzlies didn’t want to be playing the Warriors in a play-in game. But if you looked around FedExForum Sunday, there was plenty of hope.
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April 2025
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Grizzlies stars: Play-in tournament must be treated as ‘all-out war’
The Grizzlies have a lot of play-in and playoff battles with the Warriors. Tuesday the teams get together again with a playoff berth on the line.
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Redbirds recap: Memphis salvages Sunday afternoon finale at Nashville
The Redbirds return to AutoZone Park on Tuesday, April 15 to begin a six-game series against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.
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Herrington: Some rest, a win and a little luck? Maybe Grizzlies got all three on final day
Memphis rested its stars, won Sunday’s game and might have gotten some luck by not having to face the Los Angeles Clippers in Tuesday’s play-in game.
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Vote for the spring sports athlete of the week, Week 5
Standouts from Brighton, Briarcrest, CBHS, Collierville, Houston, Northpoint and Lausanne are up for consideration this week.
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Redbirds recap: Memphis loses game five in Nashville
The Memphis Redbirds fell in Game 5 of a six-game series against the Nashville Sounds on Saturday night at First Horizon Park in Nashville.
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Bartlett High students learn skills for high-tech careers
The district has introduced high-tech equipment at Bartlett High this academic year, including a state-of-the-art interactive anatomical table for its health sciences students and a decked-out mechatronics lab.
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Memphis women’s soccer coach Monaghan talks revenue sharing
During the University of Memphis’ Power of Girls in Sports Clinic, coach Brooks Monaghan said the event showed that investing in women’s college athletics is still important.
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A pretty penny: The money Hardaway made for the 2024-25 season
The success Tigers coach Penny Hardaway had in 2024-25 helped change the trajectory of the Memphis’ program one year after a disappointing season.
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Tigers transfer Cross hopes to be next in long line of productive tight ends
Memphis has had a tight end as one of its top pass catchers in four of the past five seasons. None of them started high school expecting to play the position, and neither did Jerry Cross, a transfer from Penn State.
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Germantown about $92M shy of price tag for Houston High upgrades
Germantown Municipal School District asked for $100 million toward the Houston High School master plan. The city’s six-year capital plan shows $8 million for the suburban district’s high school.
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The story behind the restaurant: Natalie Lieberman writes the design
A background in creative writing helps designer Natalie Lieberman make restaurants feel cozy, kitschy, cool and one of a kind. The Collect + Curate Studio founder said it’s about “telling the narrative” of the space.
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Stars shine at Houston Track Classic
Several competitors turned in state-leading performances in the season’s largest track and field competition in the Mid-South.
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Showboats in a hole after falling to Houston
Even after a mid-game quarterback change, the UFL’s Memphis Showboats dropped to an 0-3 with their 18-17 loss to the Houston Roughnecks.
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The Grizzlies are in the play-in. Who will they face?
With a Memphis loss to Denver on Friday and a Golden State win against Portland, the Grizzlies are headed to a play-in game on Tuesday. Who will they face next?
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Meet the women of Tigers football
Before the Memphis Tigers’ annual women’s clinic for female football fans gets started, The Daily Memphian spoke with six women who hold important roles in the program.
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The Grizzlies don’t want sympathy. ‘We put ourselves in this situation.’
The sour taste of last season’s injury-filled debacle still exists in the Memphis locker room. The Grizzlies don’t want to view the postseason from a distance again.
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Redbirds recap: Memphis falls to Nashville for third time in four games
An RBI double in the seventh inning by third baseman Ryan Vilade brought home the lone Memphis run in the 7-1 loss.
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Bailey: I will soon have a Real ID to prove that I really am who I say I am
After a trip to Fayette County, I really have the identification to show I really am who I’ve said I am for 70-plus years.
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Memphis Showboats still seeking first win, before it’s way too late
Either Memphis or Houston is guaranteed its first UFL victory while the other will drop to 0-3.
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Bond increased for woman charged with neglect of adults in bus
Bernice Jarrett is charged with one count of aggravated neglect of a vulnerable person and five counts of neglect of a vulnerable person.
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What’s at stake for the Grizzlies in NBA’s last weekend? It’s complicated.
While the range of possible remains wide, the most likely scenario would now find the Memphis Grizzlies in eighth place in the West, traveling to fight for a chance to make the NBA playoffs.
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Gun violence strategies working, despite mass shooting
K. Durell Cowan, founder of Heal 901, said that, in spite of a mass shooting this week in Hickory Hill, the “proof is in the numbers” that gun violence prevention is working.
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Redbirds recap: Catcher’s hot bat leads Memphis over Nashville
Catcher Jimmy Crooks had a three-run home run and an RBI double in a 3-for-5 night for Memphis.
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Grizzlies defense gets demolished in costly loss to Timberwolves
Ja Morant and Anthony Edwards each delivered all night. But the Grizzlies took the costly loss, one that will now make it much harder to avoid falling into the NBA’s play-in tournament.
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