First Friday of the season is Aug. 18.

Several Olympians are scheduled to compete in this year’s event, which will have a new twist Saturday on Beale.

For yet another time this summer, Memphis was the center of the youth basketball universe.

This year’s event takes place at Cordova High, Kirby High and Whitehaven High eight days before the season begins.

Talented transfers augment quality returnees as Golden Wildcats look for continued growth in Derrick Bobo’s second year.

A new region home — along with a new head coach and some talented returnees — brings renewed optimism to the program.

Marvis Davis, who coached Lausanne’s basketball team to five state tournament appearances, is leaving the Lynx to take over as athletic director for the Germantown Municipal School District.

The Briarcrest Christian School product once played pee-wee ball for the Whitehaven Cowboys.

Numbers and accolades tell just a small part of the story about the former Central star, who died last week.

A month after Memphis University School football star Dion Stutts died, Arkansas coach Sam Pittman puts loss in perspective.

Former principal Tim Jones is moving to the district’s central office as executive director of athletics and school support. Vice Principal Christopher Maley will be the new principal.

The former Briarcrest Christian School coach rose to the job at Ole Miss, found trouble and is now back in the SEC coaching Auburn.

After four stellar seasons in Haywood County, Smith takes over a program with high expectations. But lower mileage.

Danielle Ballard, who starred for Central High’s state title team in 2011 before going on to a standout career at LSU, has died.

The school recently announced that Cayce Densford, a longtime fixture in the athletic department, will have a new role.

Maxine Engel will be on Capitol Hill as part of an athlete-led advocacy group seeking to help the current generation as well as the next.

Recent Central High graduate Jordan Ware has added a prestigious honor to cap his career. Also, former MUS track and field star Harrison Williams won the decathlon title at USATF National Outdoor Championships. 

Former players from Houston High, Collierville High and Arlington High taken on the second day of the MLB Draft.

In the summer before his first season in charge at Whitehaven High, former Memphis point guard Willie Kemp will coach the Beale Street Boys in The Basketball Tournament.

Nikki McCray-Penson, 51, was a Collierville native, who had a standout career in high school, college, then in the WNBA and for Team USA. 

MUS product Maurice Hampton Jr. started his college career as a two-sport athlete. After spending the last two years only playing baseball, he’ll be back to playing football games for the first time since the 2020 season. 

The problem with common sense, as the saying goes, is that it’s so uncommon. Memphis businessman Bill Courtney is trying to change that with his new podcast, “An Army of Normal Folks.”

Former DeSoto Central standout Austin Riley and former Evangelical Christian School star Brent Rooker were named Sunday, July 2, as reserves for the MLB All-Star Game that will be played July 11 in Seattle.

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The former Whitehaven High star played at Missouri and Jackson State before signing this year with the Miami Dolphins as an undrafted free agent.

Kaue Costa scored 18 times and assisted on 11 others as the Lynx finished 16-1-1 and won their third title overall with a 3-0 victory over Chattanooga Boyd-Buchanan.