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Box score: Memphis 75, UCF 61

Memphis pulls off season sweep of UCF

The Tigers had a rocky start to the second half, but were able to repel each challenge in the 75-61 win.

Box score: Memphis 75, UCF 61

Red Devils quarterback will shift to secondary for NCAA Division II power.

Star wide receiver Roc Taylor was jilted by Tennessee and landed at Memphis. He and his coach both say Taylor ended up at the better program. 

The team also has announced a number of initiatives to celebrate Black History Month.

The state’s largest school system – Shelby County Schools – becomes the only school system in the state to have no in-person classes as Metro Nashville Schools resumes some in-person classes Thursday, Feb. 4.

The new service aims to make it easier for those who live within the service area to get back and forth to their workplaces.

Coach Ryan Silverfield managed to bring in enough talent to fill the holes left by transfers and opt-outs.

Discussion of Shelby County increasing vaccine sites countywide includes a possibility of Frayser. The Health Department already has a first-dose location at the Whitehaven Center of Southwest Tennessee Community College.

Both areas of the city are part of Area E on the city’s solid waste map, an area that has had problems with solid waste service even before the pandemic.

There’s still a pandemic, but that’s not stopping new restaurants and breweries from opening, and one local business owner has gotten so busy, he’s had to beef up his staff.

Stella Maris Development owner Amin Zaki plans to revive apartments at 1030 Poplar. They’ve been vacant and deteriorating more than five years. 

Developers who plan to raze the historic Nylon Net Building have unveiled renderings for the $52.2 million, mixed-use building that would replace it. 

Austin Peay transfer Jeremiah Oatsvall has officially moved to wide receiver.

The development of 270 apartments, 17,500 square feet of retail and a 411-space parking structure would replace the existing First Horizon and IberiaBank branches on Union, between Cleveland and Claybrook. 

Shelby County Schools Superintendent Joris Ray has stood firm with all-remote learning, and accuses state leaders of being out of touch with the needs of Memphis students, who are mostly Black and disproportionately affected by the deadly virus. 

Eric Barnes talks to Overton Park Conservancy director Tina Sullivan about the park, the future of Rust Hall, the golf course renovation and the change and development happening in the surrounding neighborhoods.

Owls play with purpose on both ends of the floor in improving their record to 11-3.

The Tigers aren’t the only program affected. An expected rule change has led to what one recruiting director calls “free agency in college football.”

Memphis, playing the second game of a back-to-back, fell behind from the start.

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The Fairgrounds conversion to Liberty Park got a $4 million boost Tuesday, Feb. 2, to begin some ground work in May as well as to start designing buildings.

Memphis City Council members Tuesday approved a new office designed to intervene and prevent violence in the city. 

A city ordinance that would ban cat and dog sales at pet stores within Memphis passed the Memphis City Council Tuesday, Feb. 2, on the first of three readings.