ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona declined comment Monday on a report the team received a mailed threat targeting black and Latin players.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Ambrose "Bud" Dudley, who founded the Liberty Bowl football game in 1959 and oversaw the game for decades, has died. He was 88.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Ambrose "Bud" Dudley, who founded the Liberty Bowl football game in 1959 and oversaw the game for decades, has died. He was 88.
$300 million initiative seeks to improve the quality of health care and to eventually provide models for national health reform
In late January, the Jeannette (Pa.) High basketball team was searching for a gym to practice in a day before the Jayhawks, who featured star football prospect Terrelle Pryor, were scheduled to play in the Primetime Shootout at Villanova University. By way of a friend, Lamont Peterson, a trainer with nearby American Christian School (Aston, Pa.), tournament director Jeff Hewitson found a temporary practice spot at the Tri-State Sports fitness center, which serves as American Christian's home court.
Read Luke Winn's Five Reasons Memphis Will Win here.
Even the FBI thought at first there must have been a conspiracy behind the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Christine King Farris was sewing an Easter dress for her daughter in their Atlanta home one rainy April evening when the nightly news was interrupted by a special report.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Saturday's Final Four action.
SAN ANTONIO -- Five things we learned while being stunned that Curtis Shaw got to referee the Memphis-UCLA game:
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona declined comment Monday on a report the team received a mailed threat targeting black and Latin players.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Ambrose "Bud" Dudley, who founded the Liberty Bowl football game in 1959 and oversaw the game for decades, has died. He was 88.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Ambrose "Bud" Dudley, who founded the Liberty Bowl football game in 1959 and oversaw the game for decades, has died. He was 88.
$300 million initiative seeks to improve the quality of health care and to eventually provide models for national health reform
In late January, the Jeannette (Pa.) High basketball team was searching for a gym to practice in a day before the Jayhawks, who featured star football prospect Terrelle Pryor, were scheduled to play in the Primetime Shootout at Villanova University. By way of a friend, Lamont Peterson, a trainer with nearby American Christian School (Aston, Pa.), tournament director Jeff Hewitson found a temporary practice spot at the Tri-State Sports fitness center, which serves as American Christian's home court.
Read Luke Winn's Five Reasons Memphis Will Win here.
Even the FBI thought at first there must have been a conspiracy behind the murder of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.
Christine King Farris was sewing an Easter dress for her daughter in their Atlanta home one rainy April evening when the nightly news was interrupted by a special report.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Saturday's Final Four action.
SAN ANTONIO -- Five things we learned while being stunned that Curtis Shaw got to referee the Memphis-UCLA game:
UCLA (35-3) vs. Memphis (37-1) Saturday, 6:07 p.m., CBS Alamodome (44,000)
My love for University of Memphis basketball is completely irrational. I never went to school there and have no affiliation with the university. But I bleed Tiger blue.
A friendly bit of advice for the hoards of Bruins, Jayhawks, Tar Heels and Tigers fans and others who might be contemplating a trek to San Antonio this weekend: Unless you're holding a ticket already, don't go. Take it from a frequent visitor -- save yourself the effort this one time.
Four seconds. That's all it took. Four seconds for UCLA freshman forward Kevin Love to bury Xavier for good after the Musketeers had mounted a comeback with an 11-2 run in the second half of last Saturday's West Regional final. Four seconds for Love to snatch the ball out of the net, take one step out-of-bounds -- his right foot planted, his left foot inches above the floor -- and snap an immaculate, 70-foot chest pass to teammate Russell Westbrook for a layup and a 14-point lead. Four seconds to crush Xavier with basketball's answer to a 60-yard touchdown throw. For one glorious, fleeting moment the old-school chest pass was as sexy as a Dwight Howard slam dunk. "I love hearing the oohs and aahs you get from the crowd," Love says, "because you rarely ever hear them for a pass. You usually just hear them for a dunk."
Five things we learned while feeling lame about taking our laptop into a sports bar:
The Memphis native gives to the Memphis Rock 'n' Soul Museum and the Memphis Music Foundation
When this year's NCAA tournament pairings were announced a week ago Sunday night, I took a look at the page and, for the first time in 20-plus years as a bracket hound, found myself tempted to pick all four No. 1 seeds to reach the Final Four.
Five things we learned while having our laptop crash and spending the wee hours at the amazingly cool 24-hour Mac store next to Central Park:
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Underrated: Mississippi State. Forget what happened in the SEC tournament; by the end of the regular season it was clear the Bulldogs were the second-best team in the SEC behind Tennessee. Jarvis Varnado is a shot-blocking menace (see below), and the inside-outside combination of explosive guard Jamont Gordon and imposing forward Charles Rhodes means Rick Stansbury's team can beat you in different ways. Gordon in particular could be primed for scoring heroics in the tournament.
Whoever killed six people in a Memphis, Tennessee, home may still be on the loose, police said Tuesday. They asked the community for help in solving the slayings.
Six people were killed, including two children, and another three children wounded in a shooting Monday in Memphis, Tennessee, authorities said.
SI.com's Richard Deitsch checks in every Monday with the latest doings in TV, radio and the Web.
Tyreke Evans, the nation's top unsigned recruit, is expected to touch down at Graceland Airport in Memphis shortly before 10 p.m. Friday and will watch Saturday night's sold-out battle between top-ranked Memphis and No. 2 Tennessee at the FedEx Forum.
Sports Illustrated came out with five regional rivalry covers for the college basketball preview back in November; in retrospect, we probably would have been fine printing just one: Memphis-Tennessee. In 2007-08, no regular-season game has mattered -- or will matter -- as much as the one that will take place on Saturday night at FedEx Forum.
The rankings for this week, straight up.
I love reading bracket projections as much as the next hoops geek, but even the folks who do them would concede that it is still very early. With so much basketball left, we're a good three weeks from being able to see what will be revealed on Selection Sunday.
In the wake of last week's New Hampshire primary, this is not exactly the best time to call yourself a pollster. Fortunately, when I conduct a college hoops poll, I yield results with zero margin for error. That's because the only person I poll is myself. The answers, therefore, are always correct.
College hoops turns the corner into the conference home-stretch this evening, and as much as we think we've learned from the first two months of the season, it's not enough. The final Associated Press poll of December 2006 is evidence of just how worthless early-season assessments can be. No one considered that Top 25 to be a total abomination at the time, and yet there was one future NIT team (Alabama) in the top 10 and three more (Oklahoma State, Air Force and Clemson) scattered below.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- When Jacksonville State and Memphis kicked off Saturday night, line judge S.B. Thomas didn't stand out.
I am currently employed but looking for other opportunities within my field. Recently, I received a phone call for a position, that if I receive it, would call for me to relocate to Memphis, which is not a problem. However, during the conversation, the person asked me what salary I make at my current job. Now, at first these seemed odd, but since I have my resume on different Internet sites, a direct salary question like this has become the norm. I was taught not to mention salary until the other guy brings it up - only then is it open for discussion. I told him what I made.
An oppressive two-week heat wave in the Southeast and Midwest has killed at least 44 people, many who were elderly and living in homes without air-conditioning.
The night before I went outwith friends and my momand dad and I had a greatmarinated rib eye. We wentback to the house and went to bedprobably around 10:30 or so. I wasstaying with some people whom I'dmet through a friend in Memphis. Mywife hadn't made the trip because oursecond child was due in a few weeks.
I arrived at the University of Akron's Rhodes Arena on Monday morning just in time to hear the best basketball player on the planet deliver a brief lecture to a handful of collegians. "The key is, can you take what you've learned here, go home and make your teammates better," LeBron James said. "It's easy to do that when you've got good players around you. But when you've got a guy who can't break someone down, or can't make a three-pointer, it's still up to you to make that person better. That's what it's all about. That's all I've got to say."
With only a week until the Major League draft and three weeks until the College World Series in Omaha, college baseball is heating up in a big way. Last week, the NCAA selection committee announced the 64 teams that made the postseason tournament, playing in 16 regionals across the country. These regionals, hosted by a home university in each instance, will send one university to the next round after playing a double elimination weekend tournament. The 16 regionals are below, with my picks for each regional along with the skinny on every team involved.
Question: Is now the time to invest new money in mutual funds? I've been sitting on $100,000 for over a year because the market has been climbing to historic highs. I have always been told to buy low and sell high, so do you think I should wait for the correction before I invest this money. Or should I just invest it now? - Mike B., Memphis, Tenn.
You could make a strong argument that the high point of the history of professional sports in Memphis was when Andy Kaufman and Jerry "the King" Lawler staged a series of professional wrestling matches there in the 1980s that have become part of pop culture legend.
It's Final Four week, Hoop Thinkers. Time to rip it and run:
SAN ANTONIO -- Back in September, Ohio State coach Thad Matta called a team meeting and handed out a packet to his players. Along with a training schedule and a manual about academic standards, there was a picture from a Final Four pamphlet. "We put it in there and said, 'hey, if we work, this is what we will be working for,'" said Matta.
SI.com caught up with Seth Davis, who's serving as a CBS studio analyst during the tournament, to get his impressions of Friday's tournament action.
As swimsuit locations go, Memphis rocked.
Both teams are spiraling out of control, taking wonderful monthlong respites between wins, running with abandon, losing with aplomb, stinking up the joints.
Also in this column: • Who are the most-improved teams? • Development League filling a need • The next star from Argentina
Scientists and residents alike are focusing on the devastating San Francisco earthquake 100 years ago. But some researchers also want to bring public attention to seismic events in a region where strong earthquakes just don't make a lot of scientific sense.
Why is it that no matter where you are in America, airports offer the same chain stores with flaccid fries and cheesy T-shirts? Why not bring in distinctive, local mom-and-pop joints?
A man accused of posing as a firefighter to enter a woman's apartment and then sexually assaulting her on Halloween has been arraigned and ordered held without bond, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.
A man suspected of posing as a firefighter in order to gain entrance to a woman's home where he sexually assaulted her arrived in New York Monday evening after waiving extradition from Tennessee earlier in the day.
Sports Brand Meat Branding Iron, $30 Sure, you can wear your favorite team's logo, but now, thanks to Topeka entrepreneur Ed Shamburg, you can eat it too. Similar to a cattle brand, his stainless-s...
An 18-wheeler left idling in a parking lot in downtown Memphis rolled into the front of a fast-food restaurant, injuring three people, two of them critically, police said Wednesday.
In most respects it was a typical family getaway. In the summer of 1951, a 38-year-old Memphis homebuilder named Kemmons Wilson decided to take his wife and five kids on a trip to Washington, D.C. ...
--DEATH BY BOREDOM A University of Texas study found that people who don't use decision-making abilities in their jobs have a 43% higher mortality rate than those who do.
May 1-12: FLOWER FESTIVAL AT THE BILTMORE ESTATE There's nothing wrong with an FTD bouquet, but if you really want to show Mom you care, take her to the Biltmore Estate Festival of Flowers, featuri...
What has a drummer, four congas, three saxophones, two bassists, a piano, an organ, 12 guitars, a half-dozen wailing vocalists--and more energy than the midnight express out of Memphis? Answer: the...
One bright summer afternoon in 1999, my buddy Sherman and I headed northeast out of Memphis and drove about 100 miles to the tiny Tennessee village of Cedar Grove. After fruitlessly cruising about ...
While you were sleeping, they were up working--sorting packages, selling saws, creating software, mapping galaxies--unless, that is, you were up working too. Deep night, the once lonely landscape o...
When the Vancouver Grizzlies announced they were looking for a new home, Tricon Foods and the city of Louisville offered the owner $100 million to change the team's name to the Kentucky Colonels an...
Lonnie Mack is best known for his one hit--an instrumental version of Chuck Berry's "Memphis" that appeared in 1963. That led to his first album, The Wham of That Memphis Man, on which "Why" origin...
$175 Cruise the roads of the Mississippi Delta in a '55 Cadillac. The eight-hour Blues & Blacktop guided tour stops at juke joints and barbecue shacks. See www.americandreamsafari.com.
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Boosters of Memphis will tell you that in their town, compared with the rest of the United States, the music's sweeter, the barbecue's smokier, and the unemployment rate's lower. What they won't br...
Readers who wrote in about MONEY's ninth annual ranking of U.S. cities ("The Best Places to Live Today," September) were generally in a combative mood. A major point of contention was the sudden ri...
On Oct. 6, some 100,000 Americans sat down in shopping malls, in hospitals and on college campuses to talk about sadness, anxiety and fatigue. Why all the gloom? The national introspection was part...
It seems there are more people selling the blues these days than singing them. According to the Memphis-based Blues Foundation, the number of U.S. blues clubs has grown 52% since 1990, to 1,360. Th...
Forget the Super Bowl. The National Football League's real big-money game took place recently when representatives from ten cities opened their play books to the league's expansion committee in hop...
You could end up receiving some air-fare discounts -- or even a few extra bucks -- as a result of the recent class-action suit brought against nine U.S. airlines. The suit alleges that American, Co...
When you give to a charity, you want to make sure that your hard-earned dollars will be used to help the causes that concern you -- the homeless, saving the whales or finding a cure for cancer -- r...
Hospitals have a big garbage problem. States are tightening dumping regulations, disposal costs are going up, and largely because of AIDS, the amount of medical waste from hospitals reached 360,000...
''This is the place,'' declared Brigham Young as he gazed at the spectacular site of Salt Lake City in the 1840s. In the 1990s increasing numbers of FORTUNE 500 companies may make the same choice a...
''I just don't understand this market,'' says Susan Todd, 45, who with her husband Bill, 60, has been trying to sell their dream house for the past 18 months. ''Everyone tells us how beautiful it i...
MEMPHIS -- A group of atheists and agnostics is asking major hotel chains to supply them with Bible-free rooms, saying the Bible makes for ''gruesome bedtime reading'' . . . Annie L. Gaylor, editor...
Finding companies with managers who are friendly to shareholders is an important part of Mason Hawkins's search for the perfect stock. ''Before we buy we want to know that our goals and management'...
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