Calkins: A year later, Richie Fletcher talks about Liza: ‘She would be the first to forgive.’
Eliza and Richie Fletcher have a picnic in the courtyard at Christ Methodist Day School. (Courtesy Richie Fletcher)
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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.
Richie Fletcher on his wife, Liza: “We would have late-night talks about Memphis. We could have been far away, without any worries in the world. I was always like, ‘We need to get out of here.’ But she didn’t want to leave.”
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