One of the renovations will include an art gallery and retail area, as well as alley improvements. 

While Memphis lost some guys to the portal and graduation, the Tigers have brought in several transfers that include 11 former Power Five athletes.

Van Turner and Paul Young talked about returning to Memphis after college and the role that’s played in their campaigns at separate fundraisers Saturday, Jan. 14.

Northpoint Christian’s Christian Gilliland leads area boys in scoring at 28.9 points per game, while Aaliyah Converse of St. George’s tops the girls with a 34.1 avg.

MSCS also confirmed that it will select one of the firms at its next business meeting on Jan. 31

Jazmin Miller is on course to help heal trauma on several levels, including the complicated feelings she says many Black people have with agriculture as an institution. 

Cumulus Media announces an addition on Memphis Country radio station, KIX 106/WGKX-FM

About 50 people, including family, friends and coworkers, attended the memorial service for Nichols at M.J. Edwards Funeral Home on the edge of Orange Mound. 

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Former University of Toledo receiver DeMeer Blankumsee has committed to Memphis, he announced on Instagram on Tuesday. Blankumsee caught 41 passes for 512 yards and three touchdowns as a sophomore for the Rockets this past season.

The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. will vote on changes to its payment-in-lieu-of-taxes incentive program at its Feb. 5 meeting. 

Later Wednesday morning, an update from the church said the sole survivor was breathing on his own and communicating through writing.

The joint statement from Mayor Jim Strickland and Memphis Police Chief Cerelyn “C.J.” Davis Tuesday, Jan. 17, came as the funeral of Tyre Nichols was underway. 

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Jaguars kicker Riley Patterson represented The University of Memphis in dramatic fashion with a game winning kick against the Chargers. 

Memphis will have to try to gut out at least one or two more wins while missing Lomax, Dandridge and Hardaway, but there is a silver lining to the Tigers’ current predicament.

Last week, Grizzlies beat writer Drew Hill had the chance to spend some time in Richmond, Indiana — Bane’s hometown — and talk to some of the people he grew up closely with.

Carson Vom Steeg made 21 starts in the USL Championship last season.

Cassius Bryant, 22, is the second suspect charged in the death of the University of Memphis nursing student.

A public memorial service for Lisa Marie Presley has been scheduled at Memphis’ Graceland. 

The effort will comprehensively map the condition of all 6,714 lane miles of Memphis’ streets.

“We have reached out countless times. I’ve talked to city council people. I’ve talked to lots of people. We’ve just gotten nowhere.”

Dating back to the Pyramid days, this game and all that surrounds it is a major event for Memphis and for the Grizzlies, once a symbol of the city’s arrival as an NBA market and always a testament to its meaning.

Gary Payton, Luol Deng, Nancy Lieberman and Eddie George were recognized as this year’s National Civil Rights Museum Sports Legacy Award honorees as part of the Grizzlies Martin Luther King Jr. Day Celebration Game.

Ja Morant scored 29 points and Desmond Bane scored 28 in a dominant Memphis victory. 

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Both Briarcrest boys and girls basketball top Division II - Class 2A.

In addition to Memphis, meals will be packaged in eight other U.S. cities including Atlanta, Houston and Los Angeles.