Quinerly is recognized as one of the 20 best point guards in the country ahead of the 2023-24 season.

Standouts from Collierville, DeSoto Central, ECS, FACS, KIPP, Millington and Southwind are up for consideration this week. 

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Topgolf Memphis is just south of the Germantown city limits and will employ about 400 people.

When the Grizzlies take the court Wednesday, it will do so without three of what would have been its top seven players, together accounting for $60 million of the team’s $150 million in player salary. How will the team refashion themselves on the fly?

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Districts 1 and 3 will be decided in Mississippi’s Nov. 7 general election. Three other seats are on the ballot, but are uncontested.

The Memphis Escape Rooms owners are back with a brand-new creative endeavor.

Here’s why the Memphis quarterback is never rattled: “I belong here. I’m supposed to be here. I’m good enough to be successful at this level and it’s not just because my dad was my coach in high school.”

Memphis River Parks Partnership officials say plans to replace Vice & Virtue Coffee are tentative with no timeline because the organization wants “to make the right decision rather than a quick decision.” 

“There is a lot of negative press about this city. But there’s good stuff happening, every day,” says Cody Behles, director of innovation and research support at the University of Memphis. 

Focus groups brought together by The Daily Memphian highlight many concerns residents have about the sources of crime and the difficulties involved in increasing public safety.

Pitt Hyde was told he’d be filming an interview with AutoZone leaders. Instead, he was welcomed to a party with about 100 past and present AutoZone employees. 

What can the Grizzlies do to add frontcourt depth following Steven Adams’ knee surgery?

Shelby County corrections officers charged in Gershun Freeman’s death make first court appearance, and the Memphis Tigers play their first exhibition game.

After being held scoreless in the first 45 minutes, the No. 10 Tigers came alive after halftime.

“I’m meeting all these artists from all over the world, and until someone told me that my art was of the caliber of those other artists, I would’ve never considered myself of that same caliber.”

This was the first meeting between Memphis and one of the newcomers to the American Athletic Conference and Memphis needed to show UAB that there is a difference.

SHE (Science, Health, Empowerment) Leads the Way offers networking, mentoring and educational opportunities for girls and women, while Black Men in White Coats encourages Black boys and men to consider health care careers. 

The Grizzlies announced Steven Adams will undergo season-ending knee surgery just days before the new season was set to begin. 

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Opinion: “Despite what has happened and is still happening to a Jewish State surrounded by genocidal terrorist entities bent on eradicating her, quitting isn’t an option for Israeli neighbors.”

“Grieve with your brokenhearted friends. Grieve the war their people are involved in. Grieve the evil (it’s important that we call it what it is – evil – when human beings are slaughtered) and violence towards the innocent people.”

Follow the story of the Memphis mayor campaign: the moves and issues that found their way into the political arena in this timeline of a campaign that began more than a year before ballots were cast.

“To them, public safety means more than crime,” Howard Robertson of Trust Marketing & Communications said.

Founded in 2005, Rock-n-Romp plans a comeback for kid-friendly live music with an Oct. 28 Halloween Extravaganza featuring KittyPool, Above Jupiter and Tamar Love.

Chris Herrington has all the info on the festival’s major features, movies of local interest and the revivals you can’t miss.