Category: Articles
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Weekend Guide 🎬 Friday, August 7
TV, movies and…cookies? Fri-Day! Yes! And as you roll into the weekend, here’s a quick guide with a few things worthy of your precious free time… Believe I write to you late at night, from a dark hotel room in an anonymous Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida. My kid goes back to school next…
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The Evil Empire of the Dodgers
Living in La La Land At the moment, baseball fans of every team other than the Los Angeles Dodgers are upset with the Los Angeles Dodgers. This is because the Dodgers have “ruined” baseball, splashing out ridiculous amounts of money to build a super franchise. This may be true, at least the super franchise part—after…
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Weekend Guide 🎬 Friday, July 31
The GCM newsletters you receive on Fridays are always my favorites to write, because it’s a chance to intentionally be all over the place.
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MikeCheck: Grizzlies provide opening week boost as Grizz Prep launches ‘historic new era’
MEMPHIS – A sudden burst of morning energy shot through the young student as he trudged up the steps toward the front entrance on the first day of school. At the doorway, he quickly froze despite the rising humidity on this late July Memphis morning. “What’s Grizz doing here!” the seventh grader shouted as…
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Are you ready for some football?
I played high school football for all of one day. I was in tenth grade, and while basketball was my primary focus, our hoops coach suggested we play a different sport in the fall—any sport—as a means to get in shape for basketball.
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Weekend Guide 🎬 Friday, July 24
Summer Lovin’ I suppose summer officially began back in May or June. For me as a parent, summer officially begins when school lets out. At least, that’s when my schedule dramatically shifts. No more daily routine of waking up, getting to school, home for dinner, then off to bed early. Summer is a more abstract…
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Summer League Ends, The Real Season Begins
The Grizzlies look for long-term gains It had been a while since I felt that kind of anger bubbling up inside me, the resentment that comes along with the feeling of being slighted. It was late Sunday night in the NBA Las Vegas Summer League championship game, and Grizzlies rookie Cameron Boozer had just successfully…
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Weekend Guide 🎬 Friday, July 17
It’s a cool summer Summer Breeze Let’s assume that you, like me, have been locked in on the NBA Summer Leagues over the last week or so, as the Grizzlies have provided some fun moments from Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. Yet for all the highlights and flash points, it has been one moment…
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Soccer rules! Now what?
So let me guess: You caught the fever? You’re not alone. It seems like soccer mania has swept across the United States over the last few weeks, as the World Cup has hosted all over North America. From LA to Seattle to Kansas City to Miami, we’ve seen the very best athletes the soccer world…
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MikeCheck: Boozer’s NBA indoctrination with Grizzlies driven by ‘team-first mentality’
LAS VEGAS – Through his initial appearances in summer league play, Grizzlies rookie lottery pick Cam Boozer has already shown there’s not much he can’t do on an NBA basketball court. Off the court, however, there is at least one area where a struggle surfaces. Just ask the 18-year-old power forward about himself and how…