Calkins: The sad and sweet story of the last greyhound race at Southland
After nearly seven decades, there will be no more racing at Southland Greyhound Park in West Memphis. The final race was held Saturday, Dec. 31, 2022. (Geoff Calkins/The 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.
Greyhounds have been racing at Southland since 1956. But Saturday was the last race. The day was a celebration of the end of an era — and for many, the end of a way of life.
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