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Tigers 85, Central Arkansas 68
The Tigers have their first winning streak of the season. Utilizing a 14-0 run to erase a two-point (42-40) halftime deficit, Memphis improved to 3-2 with a win over Central Arkansas Friday night at...
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Tulane 35, Tigers 21
The Tigers' three-game winning streak came to an end Saturday afternoon at Yulman Stadium in New Orleans. Tulane scored early and put up touchdowns in each quarter, never trailing, to improve to 6-5...
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COVID-19 Halts Recycling Services
A temporary halt on recycling services begins today and continues until further notice as a quarter of the city's solid waste crews either have COVID-19 or are in quarantine. City officials announced...
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Three Thoughts on Tiger Football
• Jackie Smith was a Hall of Fame tight end with the St. Louis Cardinals. Over 16 NFL seasons, he caught 480 passes and was named All-Pro five times. But it was a pass Smith dropped at the end of his...
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Music Video Monday: Juicy J
Time flies on Music Video Monday. Memphian and secret engine of American pop culture, Juicy J, has been spending his pandemic time in the woods. In his new video, "1995", the Academy Award-winning...
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Latest Weekly Average Virus Rate Beats July Record
New virus case numbers rose by 311 over the last 24 hours. The new total puts the total of all positive cases in Shelby County since March at 51,234. Total current active cases of the virus — the...
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"Oh, Banana Tree, Oh, Banana Tree. . . ."
While many people currently have evergreens — the kind with twinkling lights — on their minds, Clark Hooser is in more of a tropical frame of mind. He’s thinking about banana trees. Before the recent...
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UPDATE: More Restaurants Closed on COVID-19 Violations
UPDATE: The Shelby County Health Department announced the closure of three more restaurants/bars Monday afternoon following site inspections on Sunday. Here they are: The Blac Betty — 1331 Thomas...
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Virus Case Count Rises by 541, Four New Deaths Recorded
New virus case numbers rose by 541 over the last 24 hours. The new total puts the total of all positive cases in Shelby County since March at 51,775. Total current active cases of the virus — the...
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“Pork Report” Judges Bluff City Law, Megasite, and More
Corporate welfare, Bluff City Law, and lax government spending topped the Beacon Center’s 2020 Pork Report for Memphis and Shelby County this year. The center is a non-partisan, free-market think tank...
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Last Go-Round with Senator Lamar Alexander
Last week, Tennessee’s retiring senior U.S. senator, Lamar Alexander, delivered on a long-standing promise to make himself available to the Flyer for our version of an exit interview. A very brief,...
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Tigers 94, Mississippi Valley State 57
The Tigers went through the right kind of motions Tuesday night in throttling Mississippi Valley State at FedExForum. Sophomore forward D.J. Jeffries led Memphis scorers with 21 points as the Tigers...
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Mank is a Timely Tribute to a Hollywood Legend
Hey, did you hear the one about the starlet who was so stupid she came to Hollywood and slept with the writer? As you can tell by the misogyny, that joke is very old. Here's another one for you:...
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Basecamp Blonde: Go Lighter for the Holidays
Remember that the holidays are a test of endurance, not speed. True, this year's course has been shortened considerably by doing away with a cavalcade of office parties, but take care — danger lurks....
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Methodist Healthcare Hosts Virtual Luncheon Featuring Leslie Odom Jr.
The funds raised will benefit Methodist’s frontline workers For 18 years, Methodist Healthcare has produced a benefit luncheon. According to Bob Plunk, director of stewardship at the organization, it...
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The Piggy Bank: Give Your Children the Gift of Difficult Discussions
Imagine we can all agree that 2020 offered us a unique platform for living our day-to-day family lives. Many households with young children and working parents found themselves with problem-solving...
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MEMernet: A Damn Good Burger at Roxie’s and Memphis Intersections as Art
A roundup of Memphis on the World Wide Web.A Roxie's Tale Roxie's Grocery blew up over the weekend after an epic and hilarious post on the Where Black Memphis Eats Facebook page also blew up. Kym...
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Jazz City: The Once — and Future — Sound of Memphis
The once — and future — sound of Memphis"Before I left New York, I had had tryouts for the band and that's where I got all these Memphis musicians ... I wonder what they were doing down there, when...
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Exit Interview: Lamar Alexander on Trump, Biden, Pardons
Readers of this column will have noticed that for each of the two preceding weeks, it has contained content related to Tennessee's retiring United States Senator Lamar Alexander. First, there were...
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On Becoming Karen ...
I live on a one-block, one-way street in Midtown. There are nine houses, populated by a friendly, diverse little group of folks: Black, white, Asian, gay, straight, an 85-year-old woman who lives...
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