Kendric Davis was brilliant in his home debut. He scored 26 points, collected seven assists and looked exactly like the player Memphis needs him to be. 

Scores from the Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 game between the Memphis Grizzlies and the Brooklyn Nets at Barclays Center.

The Memphis women’s soccer team’s historic season ended in a penalty kick shootout, 3-2, to Arkansas, Sunday, Nov. 20, in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

NCAA men’s basketball box score for the Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022 game between the University of Memphis and Virginia Commonwealth University at FedExForum in Memphis.

Things started off slow for Memphis against VCU. Then Kendric Davis happened.

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Box score: Memphis 62, VCU 47

Kendric Davis finally arrives for the Memphis Tigers

Hooker has been one of the best quarterbacks in the country and a leading Heisman Trophy contender as the Volunteers (9-2) became a surprise entry into the College Football Playoff race.

The two-level exhibit, which opened on Saturday, includes 43 holiday decorated trees, a selfie station, a gingerbread village and a snow-covered Christmas village. 

In 2019, before the pandemic began, Memphis had an adult, daytime worker population of 47,337 people.

One baby in Memphis was separated from her mother for much more time than necessary because of dysfunction at the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services. After quitting, a former DCS worker says her hair is growing back.

West Cancer Center & Research Institute recently completed a clinical trial that eliminated treated tumors in 12 weeks without adverse effects.

“I want the viewer to connect with the characters in the painting. I want the viewer to know the history of Tom Lee,” local artist Carl. E. Moore said. 

“The modern American — me, included — can barely sit through a wheat-harvesting description without checking her phone for something a tad more interesting.”

Memphis is two games away from an 8-5 record, but losing the final two games would give the team its first losing season since 2013.

“On Danton Barto’s day, the final scoreboard blazed with his number.” It was a fine way to retire the jersey of the all-time great Memphis linebacker, who died in 2021 at age 50.

Veterans contribute to big victory over North Alabama in their last season game together at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium.

Preliminary information indicates a detainee at Shelby County Jail is in critical condition after an altercation with his cellmate.

NCAA college football box score for the Saturday, Nov. 19, 2022, game between the Memphis Tigers and the North Alabama Lions played at Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium in Memphis.

Memphis scored a season-high in the 59-0 win over North Alabama. The Tigers had 38 points by halftime.

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Box score: Memphis 59, North Alabama 0

Tiger Nation has waited nearly two weeks since the 2022-23 college basketball season began for the chance to see the team in person at FedExForum.

The Grizzlies star point guard left the win over Oklahoma City late in the game and did not return after tweaking his ankle.

“You have the baby majorettes, the grown-up majorettes and all the different bands from all the schools. I love it — It’s kind of like a battle of the bands.”

Looks like a cuppa joe, but the story of JoJo’s Espresso is so much more. And that’s just one of the warm images photographers Mark Weber and Brad Vest captured this week.

Last Christmas, in a mountain of boxes, wrapping paper and ribbon, the on-site gift-wrapper at Saddle Creek had an epiphany.

Breaking the turkey down before cooking frees up the oven on Thanksgiving, makes for a tasty bird and gives you the best turkey gravy you’ll ever have.

A reporters’ roundtable on “Behind The Headlines,” looks at the November midterm election results in Shelby County and the campaign for Memphis Mayor that ends with an October 2023 Election Day.