This week’s puzzle features a photo from the 12th annual Independent Bookstore Day celebration at Burke’s Book Store in Midtown. 

There have been a lot of whispers in recent weeks of the potential for major change on the Grizzlies roster this summer.

“Expectations are here,” Desmond Bane said Sunday from the Grizzlies’ final media session. “This is reality, and we came up short. We have to be better.”

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Also happening this week: The University of Tennessee Athletics’ department brings its “Big Orange Caravan” to Memphis.

The Redbirds came up one win short of sweeping their road series with the Norfolk Tide.

Memphis had a player taken in the NFL Draft for the first time since 2022, and several others were extended undrafted free agent offers or invitations once the draft concluded. 

Former Memphis forward Damarien Yates plans to unite with Alabama State coach Tony Madlock, who was a point guard for then-Memphis State from 1989-92.

The two victims, both students and football players at Booker T. Washington High School, have been identified. 

“About 30% of online reviews are fake and cost U.S. businesses nearly $152 billion per year in damaged reputations and lost revenue.”

When she began offering swim lessons nearly 40 years ago, Holly Self had no idea she was starting a family legacy.

Before Lakeland became a city in the late 1970s, the area north of Canada Road and Interstate 40 was an amusement park with hopes of becoming a Disneyland-type destination,

After four months of argument, compromise, bickering and squabble, the 2025 Tennessee General Assembly concluded April 22.

The state criminal trial for three former Memphis police officers charged in the 2023 death of Tyre Nichols begins Monday, April 28.

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After spending his first few weeks in the Methodist Hospital-Germantown NICU, Jayden Kyles is having a full-circle moment as he fosters his dream to become a pediatrician. 

One of the nation’s oldest optometry colleges is focusing on providing local people with visual impairments the latest technology, like AI-powered glasses. 

Are you ready for it? Here are today’s sudokus. 

The Redbirds return to AutoZone Park on Tuesday, April 29, to begin a six-game series against the Louisville Bats.

The Grizzlies’ season was a roller coaster, with high moments mixed in with injuries, a coach fired and a playoff sweep. Here are seven key moments of the 2024-25 season.

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“As overmatched as the Grizzlies often seemed, there’s every reason to believe this series would have been going back to Oklahoma City 2-2 if Ja Morant hadn’t gotten hurt in Game 3.”

The Memphis Tigers concluded spring practices with Saturday’s spring game, and Arrington Maiden stole the show for the quarterbacks.

Memphis has its first player drafted since 2022 and he will receive an invitation to take part in Irrelevant Week in Newport Beach, California.

Founded in Downtown Memphis in the decade after the Civil War, Burke’s Book Store has survived through four locations, six sets of owners, and a rapidly changing retail landscape that has devoured many larger bookstores.

That brings the total of homicides in Memphis just this month to at least 29, according to Memphis Police Department records, through just 26 days.

Rhodes College students Sandy Mansour and Kai Virani have advanced to the finals of a national undergraduate entrepreneurship competition in Minneapolis.

Memphis goes to overtime before securing its first win of the 2025 UFL season.