Calkins: COVID didn’t cost Memphis the Tennessee game. A failure of leadership did.
Memphis fans leave Bridgestone Arena in Nashville. The University of Memphis canceled the game because too few players were vaccinated to play. Vaccinated players would’ve been allowed to play. (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian)
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.
‘The Memphis-Tennessee game was canceled because too many Tigers players were unvaccinated. That’s an indictment of Penny Hardaway’s leadership.’
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