“I drove back home to Buffalo to celebrate my mother’s 97th birthday. Instead, I was there as she died. It was the end of a grand and generous life.”

But the Memphis soccer team remains in fourth and final playoff spot despite losing for the first time in nearly a month.

Hardaway says the toughest guys who play the right way will be the players who make that rotation. Here are some options.

Flowers, which come from owner Eva Brewer’s garden in Millington, arrive in arrangements of gold, pink, red, purple and white zinnias, marigolds, cosmos and hollyhocks.