Calkins: Ryan Silverfield is right. Memphis doesn’t have to apologize for 4-1.
Just 23,239 University of Memphis fans attended Saturday’s game against Temple. Last week, the number was 23,203. Except for the year fans were kept away because of COVID-19, Memphis hasn’t had consecutive home crowds under 24,000 since 2013. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
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.
Being 4-1 means never having to say you’re sorry. And the Tigers are 4-1. On a strange, sputtering, but ultimately triumphant day for Memphis football. (Did we mention that the Tigers are 4-1?)
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