GG Jackson scored a career-high 30 points, but Memphis was beaten on the road at Oklahoma City. 

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Also happening this week: Spring break begins, and the Land Use Control Board considers a new event venue at Crosstown Concourse.

Coach Penny Hardaway’s team has a single bye in the tournament and will open play against the winner of Wednesday’s first-round matchup between No. 12 seed Wichita State and No. 13 seed Rice.

Alexis Miché sold her Ja Morant t-shirts during the 2023 NBA Playoffs. This year she’s collaborating with the Grizzlies for an official collaboration. 

Memphis women’s basketball team is eliminated in AAC Tournament by East Carolina. 

You don’t have to go far to get away from it all. Candace Echols has some ideas for where you can go to catch your breath amid your hectic schedule.

“We get calls from Grubhub and Uber to add this on, and it’s hard to justify a customer paying the fee for one drink,” said one of Boycott Coffee’s co-owners. “It’s also hard to trust the drink is going to get there safe and sound.” 

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State Rep. G.A. Hardaway has introduced a bill proposing a feasibility study for a state-operated crime lab in Shelby County. But he and other state leaders have indicated the state will likely not fund the lab.

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The Zion Community Project’s annual cleanup and wreath-laying ceremony at Memphis’ oldest Black graveyard memorializes victims of the 1892 People’s Grocery Lynching. 

For the first time in club history, Memphis 901 FC starts the season with a victory and three points.

It’s pretty simple. If Memphis wants to make the NCAA Tournament, the only path is winning four games in four days in the AAC Tournament. That, of course, is something they’ve never done.

The Memphis Grizzlies are signing Memphis Hustle guard DeJon Jarreau to a 10-day contract, ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported. 

The Panthers were bidding to win their first championship in program history while also attempting to become the first public-school girls team from Shelby County to win state since Central in 2011.

The defending champions were too much for the Panthers to overcome.

Titled “STAX: Soulsville, USA,” the multi-part documentary series directed by Jamila Wignot covers the expansive history of the legendary Memphis-based recording studio. 

Despite 27 points from Nae’Qwan Tomlin, the Tigers lost to the Owls.

Geronimo Kee, 22, was arrested Friday for allegedly shooting Memphis Police Department 2nd Lt. Bobby Johnson after being pulled over for speeding on Interstate 240.

Luke Kennard’s wife is due in two weeks. The Grizzlies guard said he suspects his desire to help St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital will mean even more to him when he becomes a father himself.

Perception and fear have to be part of the conversation when political leaders are weighing solutions for Memphis’ crime problem, they say.

Zang zang baos became huge on East Asian social media sites starting in 2017, where users began to post their “muddy bun face,” after their first bite covers eaters in cocoa dust. But there’s no guarantee it will last long in the Mid-South. 

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The game was the Grizzlies’ 18th of the season that was within five points inside of the last five minutes. 

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Zaire Kee, 24; Tezaree Pennington, 42; Kennedy Williams, 23; and Malik Over, 25, have been charged in addition to Geronimo Kee, 22.

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