Herrington: For 38 years, ‘Knowledge Bowl’ showcased a different kind of Memphis ‘student-athlete.’ What now?
Chris Herrington, playing for White Station High School during the 1991-1992 "Knowledge Bowl" season. (Courtesy Chris Herrington)
Chris Herrington
Chris Herrington has covered the Memphis Grizzlies, in one way or another, since the franchise’s second season in Memphis, while also writing about music, movies, food and civic life. As far as he knows, he’s the only member of the Professional Basketball Writers Association who is also a member of a film critics group and has also voted in national music critic polls for Rolling Stone and the Village Voice (RIP). He now splits his time between Minneapolis-St. Paul, where his wife works, and Memphis.
What do Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the poinsettia, “Beale Street Blue” and the Harlem Renaissance all have in common?
Like the Maltese Falcon in a Humphrey Bogart movie or Dashiell Hammett novel, they’re good trivia subjects and, relatedly, the stuff dreams — or maybe minor nightmares — are made of.
Former prep athletes may look back on passes caught or dropped, shots made or missed. But not all high school competition takes place on the gridiron or hardwood.
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