Calkins: Call the Liberty Bowl whatever you like. Just don’t call it good enough
Fans celebrate in aging Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium in in September. (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.
The Liberty Bowl has a new name, which is fine. But the old stadium needs a whole lot more than that.
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