Calkins: He’s going to get people believing in this city once again — if he has to do it one Memphian at a time.
“We are our worst enemy in Memphis because we don’t realize what we’ve got,” William Dunavant III, left, says. “We have to believe in what we have before the rest of the world is going to believe in what’s going on in Memphis. I think we’ve got a really special place.” (Mark Weber/The Daily Memphian file)
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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.
William Dunavant III doesn’t waste any time getting to the point.
“I don’t think we’re thinking the right way about Memphis,” he says. “I don’t think we’re communicating the right way.”
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