Are you ready for today’s puzzles? 

Neither Memphis nor Missouri is the same team as it was when the two met one season ago.

Also happening this week: Downtown Dining Week is back with a twist, and Good Fortune’s co-owner is on the Food Network.

Here’s how The Daily Memphian envisions the Tigers’ 2024-25 season playing out.

It took Casi Spear 40-plus hours to knit her Grizzlies jersey, but she’s prepared to do it all over again for Jaren Jackson Jr. 

An earthquake was recorded Saturday night three kilometers east of Steele, Missouri.

“As far as Penny Hardaway, I can honestly say this: I couldn’t be prouder of his willingness to try to adapt and understand what he does well and where we can help him,” Ed Scott said.

The incumbent alderman should easily cruise to victory Tuesday night because no one decided to challenge him for his second term in Position 4. It will be his second term.

The Memphis Police Department is deploying new AI-powered “sideshow” detection technology, which aims to stop illegal street takeovers in their tracks.

If you’re voting Tuesday, don’t be surprised if you’re checked in by a high school student. More than 250 have signed up to work the polls this week. So be on your best behavior, people.

Neither former President Donald Trump nor Vice President Kamala Harris has campaigned in Shelby County, but both have local headquarters that offer a peek at the mindset of voters in a non-battleground state.

“It isn’t new for bitterness and meanness to enter into American politics. It existed even from people we consider to be the founders of the nation.”

“Seventy-two hours from now, everybody will be in the same boat: The votes will have been cast, and once the votes have been counted, we’ll all know who won. And ... we will all know who lost.”

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

Two challengers are facing Position 6 Alderman Kevin Quinn in Bartlett’s only contested race on Tuesday’s ballot. Kenneth Hayes and Josh McNeil are looking to unseat the incumbent.

This week’s crossword puzzle draws on recent articles about conventions or “cons” related to comics and horror. 

The Tigers have clinched the outright American Athletic Conference regular-season championship and have the date for a semifinal tournament match they will host.

One play in Philadelphia encapsulated everything the Grizzlies hope to do this season.

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Tight end Miles Kitselman caught six passes for 97 yards and a touchdown for the Volunteers as they kept their College Football playoff hopes alive. The Wildcats lost their fourth straight game. 

The Memphis Tigers football team isn’t mathematically eliminated from conference championship contention, but a 44-36 loss to UTSA makes it highly unlikely. 

Quarterback Michael Van Buren Jr. scored three total touchdowns and led the Bulldogs back from an early deficit in a win over the Massachusetts Minutemen.

The event included a parade from Overton Square to the museum, several musical performances, food vendors, informational booths and so, so many bright fanciful costumes and parade floats.

Whatever hopes anybody was still clinging to of the Tigers reaching the American Athletic Conference title game have now been all but dashed. The most anticipated football season in program history is likely to end with an appearance in a mediocre bowl game.

Another postseason heartbreaker ends Memphis 901 FC’s 2024 campaign.

Jaxson Dart set Ole Miss records for yards passing and touchdown throws in a single game, leapfrogging Matt Corral and Eli Manning, in the 19th-ranked Rebels' dominating win against Arkansas on Saturday.