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    Calkins: Why does this keep happening to Memphis basketball?

    Jalen Green skips college for the G League. It's the latest disappointment for Penny Hardaway and Memphis basketball.

    By Geoff Calkins April 17, 2020
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    Calkins: University of Memphis president David Rudd optimistic there will be students — and football — on campus this fall

    University of Memphis president David Rudd told The Daily Memphian that "current indicators would suggest" students will be back on campus in the fall. He's hopeful football will be back, too. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 15, 2020
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    Calkins: Super agent Jimmy Sexton is still doing deals — from his back porch

    Jimmy Sexton and agents at CAA just negotiated contracts for 43 NFL players worth a total $611.5 million. How do you do that in the midst of pandemic? Well, you start by never leaving your home. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 15, 2020
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    Calkins: How a 62-year-old Marine named Sgt. Tony is winning Facebook Live

    Tony Ludlow started his wise-cracking boot camp more than 20 years ago. Now he's beaming it out on Facebook Live. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 14, 2020
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    Calkins: My teenage son cut my hair and . . .

    Memphians are getting shaggier as part of life under coronavirus isolation. So, our columnist ventured into Calkins Clip Club for a trim by a teenager with a pair of shears.

    By Geoff Calkins April 08, 2020
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    Calkins: No, there won’t be football

    Dr. Jon McCullers loves sports as much as you do. But he has some bad news. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 06, 2020
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    Calkins: What happens when a St. Jude kid plays golf in the pandemic

    Dakota Cunningham is the St. Jude patient who sank a 5-foot putt for $50,000 at the World Golf Championship-FedEx St. Jude Invitational last summer. This past Thursday, he did better than that. 

    By Geoff Calkins April 06, 2020
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    Calkins: Dan Spector was Shelby County’s death number 3 — and a whole lot more

    Dan Spector died Tuesday of COVID-19. He loved the Tigers, Judaism, politics, Midtown, newspapers, the arts — and a brilliant white flower that bloomed just one night a year.

    By Geoff Calkins April 01, 2020
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    Calkins: My friend tested positive for COVID-19 — but she went all over Memphis first

    You want to know why you should take social distancing seriously? Meet a nurse I know. She lives in Memphis. She tested positive for COVID-19. And y'all just might have crossed paths before the test results came back. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 31, 2020
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    Calkins: Even in a pandemic, the high school lunch table endures

    There's no lunch table with classes canceled, unless a group of friends gather via technology to debate sports, dating and the winner of a fight between a gorilla and a bear.

    By Geoff Calkins March 30, 2020
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    Calkins: In a time of pandemic, can construction paper save us all?

    Across-the-street neighbors Melinda Henson and Laura Allen realized they weren't seeing as much of each other as they should. So they took it upon themselves to connect as only two elementary school teachers could. In the process, they taught a lesson to us all.

    By Geoff Calkins March 28, 2020
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    Calkins: Help us ‘crazy’ Memphians save local journalism

    Memphians are just audacious enough to think they can can find solutions. That’s what defines us as much as anything else. We roll up our sleeves. We innovate. And at a time when the model for local journalism is broken — but the need for local journalism is as keen as ever — Memphians have come up with a solution to that. But it needs you.

     

    By Geoff Calkins March 25, 2020
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    Calkins: Yes, it’s true! They had a (very happy) coronavirus parade!

    The teachers at Bailey Station Elementary missed their students. So they threw a giant (no joking) coronavirus parade!

    By Geoff Calkins March 25, 2020
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    Calkins: The class of 2020, and a lost senior spring

    The Class of 2020 will not have the senior spring that the rest of us had. It may shape them in important and lasting ways. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 26, 2020
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    Calkins: The Bread Emergency (from the inside)

    Scotty Oates, 29, understands the 'hell' of living inside the coronavirus crisis. No, Oates is not a doctor. He's a bread man. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 22, 2020
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    Calkins: Taylor Berger shutters Railgarten and Rec Room — and already misses Memphis spring

    Taylor Berger and his partners made the hard decision to close Railgarten, Rec Room and Highland Axe & Rec. What does that mean for his 100 employees? And what does that mean for the rest of us?

    By Geoff Calkins March 19, 2020
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    Calkins: Thoughts on Memphis — the team and the city — from a director of ‘The Harder Way’

    What quintessentially teenager thing happened to Tyler Harris this year? What is Precious Achiuwa really like? Henry Proegler, one of the directors of "The Harder Way," weighs in on this and more. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 17, 2020
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    Calkins: As the final, dramatic episodes air, an inside look at ‘The Harder Way’

    They came to Memphis knowing nothing about the city or the basketball program — but as "The Harder Way" documentary series wraps up, Henry Proegler and Ryan Booth leave as believers in both. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 17, 2020
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    Calkins: There was a Selection Sunday show! (Brought to you by Owen, a 9-year-old boy with autism)

    Owen Dowdle, 9, is a boy on the autism spectrum whose whole life revolves around sports. He couldn't bear the absence of a Selection Sunday show — so he broadcast one himself. 

    By Geoff Calkins March 15, 2020
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    Calkins: A surreal ending for a surreal season

     It was not the season Memphis basketball expected. It was an ending nobody will ever forget.

    By Geoff Calkins March 12, 2020
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    Calkins: Sometimes the show must not go on

    I love sports. So do you. But the NBA did the right thing by suspending the season. The NCAA should stop play, too.

    By Geoff Calkins March 11, 2020
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    Calkins: Precious Achiuwa wins AAC Player of the Year

    The season may have been harder than expected but Precious Achiuwa — the AAC Player of the Year — says Memphis was the ‘“right place for him.”

    By Geoff Calkins March 11, 2020
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    Calkins: Now Memphis will have to make history

    The Memphis Tigers will need four wins if they're to get the automatic bid by winning the AAC Tournament. And they've never done that.

    By Geoff Calkins March 09, 2020
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    Calkins: A night the Memphis Tigers deserved

    The 100th season of Memphis Tiger basketball wasn’t the grand romp everyone expected. But the last home game was certainly sweet.

    By Geoff Calkins March 06, 2020
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    Calkins: Processes may change, but NCAA vindictiveness remains

    The University of Memphis took a principled stand in the James Wiseman case. Now the NCAA seems determined to make the NCAA pay.

    By Geoff Calkins March 05, 2020

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