No, the Grizzlies didn’t want to be playing the Warriors in a play-in game. But if you looked around FedExForum Sunday, there was plenty of hope. 

The Redbirds return to AutoZone Park on Tuesday, April 15 to begin a six-game series against the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp.

Grizzlies play Tuesday on the road in NBA play-in tournament game. 

The Memphis Grizzlies defeated the Dallas Mavericks in the season-finale for two teams destined for the Western Conference play-in tournament. 

Also happening this week: TCAP testing begins for Memphis-Shelby County Schools, and Felicia Suzanne’s reopens.

This is the box score for the Memphis Grizzlies regular-season finale against the Dallas Mavericks played Sunday, April 13, 2025.

Memphis has had a tight end as one of its top pass catchers in four of the past five seasons. None of them started high school expecting to play the position, and neither did Jerry Cross, a transfer from Penn State.

The Memphis Redbirds fell in Game 5 of a six-game series against the Nashville Sounds on Saturday night at First Horizon Park in Nashville.

Even after a mid-game quarterback change, the UFL’s Memphis Showboats dropped to an 0-3 with their 18-17 loss to the Houston Roughnecks.

Several competitors turned in state-leading performances in the season’s largest track and field competition in the Mid-South.

The younger Hardaway is a former four-star recruit in the 2023 class who began his college career at Memphis as a true freshman in the 2023-24 season before transferring to Saint Mary’s ahead of this past season.

The Grizzlies listed seven main players as “doubtful” for Sunday’s season finale against Dallas.

During the University of Memphis’ Power of Girls in Sports Clinic, coach Brooks Monaghan said the event showed that investing in women’s college athletics is still important.

Quarterback Nico Iamaleava was not at Tennessee’s Orange and White game Saturday and is no longer on the roster. It appears Iamaleava is headed toward the transfer portal that opens Wednesday.

With a Memphis loss to Denver on Friday and a Golden State win against Portland, the Grizzlies are headed to a play-in game on Tuesday. Who will they face next?

Before the Memphis Tigers’ annual women’s clinic for female football fans gets started, The Daily Memphian spoke with six women who hold important roles in the program.

The sour taste of last season’s injury-filled debacle still exists in the Memphis locker room. The Grizzlies don’t want to view the postseason from a distance again.

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An RBI double in the seventh inning by third baseman Ryan Vilade brought home the lone Memphis run in the 7-1 loss.

The Memphis Grizzlies acknowledged Jaylen Wells’ multiple injuries stemming from his recent hard fall and addressed his availability status.

With the loss of one to the NCAA transfer portal, the Memphis Tigers now have three quarterbacks on their 2025 roster. 

While the range of possible remains wide, the most likely scenario would now find the Memphis Grizzlies in eighth place in the West, traveling to fight for a chance to make the NBA playoffs.

Either Memphis or Houston is guaranteed its first UFL victory while the other will drop to 0-3.

Ja Morant and Anthony Edwards each delivered all night. But the Grizzlies took the costly loss, one that will now make it much harder to avoid falling into the NBA’s play-in tournament.

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