Calkins: Precious Achiuwa wins AAC Player of the Year
University of Memphis forward Precious Achiuwa tries to make a steal from Houston's Fabian White (35) during the Tigers' game against the Cougars at the Fertitta Center in Houston on March 8, 2020. (Jim Weber/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 season may have been harder than expected but Precious Achiuwa — the AAC Player of the Year — says Memphis was the ‘“right place for him.”
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