Conaway: Don’t play a game in Nashville. Don’t give Nashville a dime.
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
Evidently, there was a shell game going on somewhere recently.
Somebody from Nashville was running it, and the two suckers playing were from Memphis and Louisville, Kentucky.
The stakes were two lucrative basketball games between the University of Memphis and the University of Louisville.
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