Category: Articles
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MikeCheck: Communication is key as Grizzlies chart path toward defensive progress
The Grizzlies have a specific plan to overcome some of the defensive struggles that have hampered their progress in recent games. It starts with collectively talking their way through it.
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MikeCheck: Dependable depth forming early as Grizzlies aim to build on season’s solid start
Through four seasons as coach, Taylor Jenkins has routinely drilled home three principles that define the culture the Grizzlies have established since he arrived. Compete. Play together. Get better every day…
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Lang’s World: Let’s give the Heisman the Heisman
Everything changes. I told someone the other day that I knew I was getting old when I realized I was more excited to go to sleep at night than to stay up and play video games. As much as I wish I still had unlimited energy and free time, my body has changed, and…
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Lang’s World: The Tennessee Volunteers are real, and they’re spectacular
As the Memphis Grizzlies finished up practice on Monday morning, rookie point guard Kennedy Chandler turned to someone nearby and asked about the latest college football rankings, which had just been released.
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Grind City Media’s #50ForDaCity selected for 2022 Indie Memphis Film Festival
Grind City Media announced today that the Zach Randolph retirement documentary #50ForDaCity has been selected to participate in this year’s Indie Memphis Film Festival. The documentary was selected for the “Hometowner” category and will be screened…
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MikeCheck: Kevin Hart – iconic comedian, actor, mogul – delivers FedExForum a Memphis ‘Reality Check’
From award-winning actor to one of the highest-grossing comedians of all time to multimedia venture capitalist, Kevin Hart quickly corrects anyone who dares to suggests he’s juggling a million jobs these days.
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MikeCheck: Clarke grateful hard work pays off with extension as Grizzlies set sights on season opener
On the eve of signing a four-year contract extension, forward Brandon Clarke met with students in the Memphis Grizzlies Scholars Program to share advice on everything from fashion and saving money to building confidence through adolescent years.
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College Football’s Real MVP? The Transfer Portal
A few weeks ago, I had the chance to take my son to his first college football game at the University of Georgia. It wasn’t his first college football game–last year we went to a Memphis Tigers game, and had a great time walking up, buying tickets and sitting…
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MikeCheck: Key statements – and their meanings – as Grizzlies prep for NBA preseason slate
With training camp in full swing and preseason games looming, the Grizzlies maintain a big-picture focus while simultaneously sweating through the small details. The goal is to build on a breakthrough season that carried Memphis…
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Lang’s World: For Georgia Tech, it has to be Prime Time
One of my earliest college football memories was when Herschel Walker left the University of Georgia after his junior season in order to sign with the New Jersey Generals of the USFL. I wasn’t old enough to understand any of what was happening, other than to know that in Atlanta…