The former Heisman Trophy runner-up and Super Bowl champion is this year’s Distinguished Citizen award winner.

Advanced analytics websites KenPom and Bart Torvik don’t have much confidence in the Tigers going better than 2-2 in their next four games.

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School’s culture is already deeply ingrained in the new MUS head football coach. 

Chuck Gallina’s mother, Mimi, has Alzheimer’s disease, but he still takes her to all the Memphis Grizzlies’ home games. And, even during this lost NBA season, those games have come to mean something more to this family — and it can teach us all about love. 

Ten Baptist Urgent Care Centers opened their doors on Monday, Feb. 12, in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, and another clinic is scheduled to open in Mid-March. 

Sen. Brent Taylor is exploring concepts and asking questions about separating the Shelby County suburbs and Memphis into different judicial districts.

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A wraparound feed from Santi Aldama for a two-hand slam from Jaren Jackson Jr. brought the Grizzlies to within five points with a little more than three minutes to play, but that was as close as it would get.

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Box score: Pelicans 96, Grizzlies 87

“The ceiling is in the way for Nae’Qwan,” Penny Hardaway said of Nae’Qwan Tomlin during his radio show Monday night. “Because he still has so much growth to do from where he is right now.”

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As the snow cleared out, the National Weather Service of Memphis warned of black ice. 

Vince Williams Jr. was named as a replacement player in the Rising Stars event at NBA All-Star Weekend. 

The Collierville Board of Mayor and Aldermen granted two extensions for residential subdivisions Monday evening. Both were given six months.

The issuing of qualifying petitions to get on the August ballot overlaps with the start of early voting in the March election. Here’s who has a petition out in the first week of petitions for the August election.

An affidavit in the case, posted to the online Shelby County Criminal Justice System Portal, describes one of the shootings that caused a city-wide manhunt for Craft Sunday. 

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Prior to his short stint in Phoenix, Goodwin played two seasons in Washington for the Wizards.

“There’s a ton of resources in Memphis that are yet to be tapped into,” Jarnell Stokes said. “I would like to see my city become an entertainment hub, that reaches far beyond just basketball and hip-hop.”

Upadhyaya ranked a couple teams that should be familiar for Memphis fans.

Standouts from Hamilton, Harding, Lausanne, Lewisburg and MASE are up for consideration this week. 

Standouts from Houston, Hutchison, Lewisburg, Memphis Business Academy and Millington Central are up for consideration this week. 

The Greater Memphis Chamber, in a statement to The Daily Memphian, asked the entire City Council to vote against the health insurance measure, saying it is fiscally irresponsible. 

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“Since (this legislation) was first introduced (in 2021), the conditions of the world we live in just keep showing us that there is an urgent need to address these problems, and they’re not solving themselves,” said the executive director of the Mississippi River Network.

The West Cancer Foundation has provided free wigs since 2020, but it recently added a dedicated space where cancer patients can try on a variety of styles in a private, salon-type setting. 

As short-term parking and curbside pickup options are more abundant post-pandemic, Germantown is asking businesses to be uniform.

A 2023 study found the turnaround district’s effectiveness to be “indistinguishable from zero.” It could be closed as part of the legislation establishing a universal private school voucher program — but what would replace it is still unclear.