It wasn’t always pretty — at all, actually — but Memphis finished the game shooting 52.5% from the floor and 44% from 3. It also had four players tally double-digit points. Box score: Memphis 92, Alabama State 75 Tony Madlock returns to his ‘roots’ when Memphis hosts Alabama StateRelated stories:
The transfer from St. John’s scores 22 in the Memphis Tigers’ win over Alabama State.
Southwind and Fairley also advance in their respective classifications.
The Tigers will face Pittsburgh in the round of 16 at 6 p.m. Sunday in Fayetteville.
Oher has been battling the Tuohys in court about a conservatorship that gave the couple control over Oher’s finances, education and medical decisions as well as the ability to sign contracts on his behalf.
Here are some Grizzlies items of note as the weekend double-dip looms, with a road game Saturday at San Antonio and a home game Sunday against Boston. All without Marcus Smart.
Here’s a look at how the 2023 election season shook out, and what’s coming up on the ballot for Memphis voters in 2024.
Memphis City Council Chairman Martavius Jones is proposing a pay raise from the current $170,817 Mayor Jim Strickland makes to $210,000 a year starting Jan. 1 when Mayor-elect Paul Young takes office.
The winners of the three races make a majority of seven women on the city council that takes office in January — the first majority of women on the 13-member body in the 55-year history of the mayor-council form of government.
It is one of the city’s largest Black-led developments in a predominantly Black neighborhood, said The Works president Roshun Austin, who will oversee the project.
The Memphis Tigers haven’t lost a game in more than a month, mainly because their offense has found another gear.Related story:
A suggestion to change the status of Garner Lake in Lakeland and making the private water feature accessible to outsiders was met with strong opposition.
Alabama State coach Tony Madlock was teammates with coach Penny Hardaway on the Tigers’ 1992 Elite Eight team and served as an assistant under Hardaway for three seasons before starting his head coaching journey.
SMU has a high-scoring offense and a stingy defense. The Memphis offense is right behind the Mustangs in scoring, but the defense is boom or bust when it comes to allowing points and forcing takeaways.
“No state, not one, has ever rejected this federal education funding. No state. Not one.”
Bartlett is considering allowing alcohol at city venues and festivities, quite a change from the past. And maybe a step towards more events, more rentals and a larger list of refreshments for performers after concerts.
Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis talked about the leadership changes — as well as guns, crime rates, hiring and recruitment, technology and more — at a recent Memphis Rotary Club meeting.
According to a site plan, the Poplar Avenue location would have two drive-thru lanes with no access to the site from Poplar. If the new location is approved, the chain would close its current Collierville location.
Plus, longtime favorite New Asia has new ownership, and a Chipotle location is headed to Millington.
“This thing is about us as a whole group and no individual person,” Jahvon Quinerly said Thursday. “That’s just something that we’ve been preaching all summer.”Related story:
Sondra Howell of the Greater Memphis Chamber will be the interim director of a regional workforce development board as the program seeks to smooth out a rocky year of transition.
Cuts are due to streamlining the company is doing to merge Express, Ground and FedEx Services, and loss of the U.S. Postal contract.
Penny Hardaway came into the season without having filled all 13 of his total scholarships. With the departure of forward Tyreek Smith he’s down to just nine available scholarship players.
Swankys Taco Shop will close its Carrefour location in two weeks. Redevelopment and the resulting construction contributed to its departure from Kirby Woods after two decades.
Germantown’s Rooker just completed his second season with the Oakland A’s.
Karen Carrier closed her popular Do Sushi bar in 2013, but the pop-ups she’s hosted since then always prove to be popular.
The big activity in local theaters this week is the annual Indie Memphis Film Festival, but those screenings aren’t your only options.
The forum will address juvenile crime, bail, truancy and other factors with speakers including representatives from the Memphis Police Department, the Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, General Sessions Court and the school system.
The Daily Memphian food, music and basketball reporter and columnist Chris Herrington joins Eric Barnes on Sound Bites to discuss his areas of expertise.