Calkins: Pretty please, NCAA — just not a postseason ban
An NCAA postseason would dampen what promises to be an electric season for Tigers like forward Emoni Bates (left, in September) and Landers Nolley II (right). (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Judgment Day is coming for Memphis basketball. And that judgment could be severe.
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