After missing Game 2 for a hand injury, Morant’s strong performance in Game 3 gives hope for what’s possible in the games ahead.

Celebrate Earth Day by spending some time observing a single creature — what it looks like, how it moves, how it interacts with other plants or creatures in its habitat, and whether it makes any distinctive sounds.

“When there’s a medical breakthrough, you’re not going to hear about it first through an ad or sales pitch.”

“I didn’t mention that we put our house on the market that same day. Staged it, coughing. Fixed it, coughing. Moved ‘clutter' to storage, coughing. Then I moved into Methodist Germantown and left the rest to Nora.”

“Having FedEx’s influence in Memphis the past 50 years — from the high-profile items like FedExForum and the Grizzlies to actions that fly under the larger radar like all the FedEx Cares events in Memphis — has been incalculable in making our city as amazing as we all enjoy it to be.”

“These three leaders effectively tapped into the political will of a demographic that had been held down, abused and ignored year after year. A megaphone was all that was needed to shatter Speaker Cameron Sexton’s fragile ego and trigger a political earthquake.”

“We strongly urge the MSCS board and the next superintendent to continue making early literacy a top priority for our community.”

In an op-ed, Democrat Phil Bredesen and Republican Bill Haslam, who served as governors successively from 2003 to 2019, offered some specifics around “small step” gun restrictions as starting points.

“We must break down the system silos, invest strategically in communities, and hold ourselves across public and private interests accountable for results.”

“Because of the sanitation workers’ strike and the tragic killing of Martin Luther King Jr. 55 years ago, Memphis has become a welcoming place for refugees and people fleeing unimaginable horrors back home.”

“With a country format moving to the 99.7 spot on the FM dial, a station that set the tone for our youth is disappearing like our hearing and our memories.”

“When teachers, sanitation workers and municipal employees must take time off work to drive across the state to receive care for sick children, we will all feel the consequences.”

“This adolescent muscle-flex, this junior high hissy fit, this racist knee-jerk, this blatant abuse of power, this embarrassing lack of judgment put Tennessee in the national spotlight again.”

After losing 80% of his scoring from this past season, Penny Hardaway has been a busy man in the transfer portal. The Tigers have added four new players from there, and more are on the way.

“We can’t solve the poverty and cultural issues that plague our community in the short or even medium term. But we can build more prisons, with an emphasis on reform.”

The Daily Memphian received an outpouring of letters and comments after the Tennessee state legislature voted to expel the Tennessee Three. Here is a selection of those letters.

Whether it’s denying Memphis funding as punishment for removing Confederate statues or attempting to punish Nashville for not hosting the 2024 Republican National Convention, these are proxies for a political divide between urban and rural communities. 

Given the activism that is being whipped up among younger voters and others who believe there should be some limits to gun rights, the Tennessee 3 incident could be the turning point away from GOP super-dominance in Tennessee.

“Community members shouldn’t have to wait years for relief. Instead of making excuses and dodging questions, the Shelby County Health Department needs to act now to make the facility reduce its emissions or — if it continues to refuse — shut down completely.”

A call to local government leaders: “It is time to get your heads out of the sand and recognize we have a problem. And that problem is going to kill our budding tourist industry.”

“I’ll admit that the Easter bunny is cute and tons of fun – he swings by our house every year. The eggs are nice. The flowers are a delight. In their own ways, they all point to new life. But there is nothing that compares with celebrating what it means for humanity that Jesus walked out of that tomb.”

“Dinner at his and Carol’s house, or five minutes on the phone, or two minutes in the corner of a theater lobby at intermission – be assured – you’d spit out whatever you were drinking.”