Calkins: Think Memphis is down for good? You don’t know Jack.
Rick Shadyac, president and CEO of ALSAC (left) receives a check from Jack Sammons for over $8.6 million on Thursday, June 16, 2022, that the FedEx St. Jude Championship raised last year. (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.
You know Clarence, the angel in “It’s a Wonderful Life?” Jack Sammons is nothing like him. But in this challenging time for Memphis, Sammons shares a story about Clarence. And Memphians should take it to heart.
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