Calkins: Florida Atlantic is in the Final Four. So how are Memphis fans supposed to feel?
Negative Nellie and Positive Paul can agree on something positive. Penny Hardaway is the Memphis basketball coach and we never have to talk about our coach leaving for another job like other schools do when they are winning. (Mark Humphrey/AP Photo 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.
Florida Atlantic University is in the Final Four. This has caused Memphis fans to feel all sorts of things — including deep pain. Is it rational? Of course not. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t real.
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