Though the college basketball season is still months away, the University of Memphis is steadily adding to its basketball roster. Just recently, the Tigers landed former Louisville Cardinals’ forward Lance Thomas.
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Colorado Springs, Colorado – Memphis’ nickname is the Bluff City; however, it is only 337 feet above sea level and has no bearings on an athlete’s endurance. Unlike in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where many of the players at the Team USA U18 camp found themselves gasping for air and looking …
Colorado Springs, Colorado — Alex Lomax comes from a neighborhood where only the strong-minded can survive, the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis. The area is notoriously known for its struggles with gun violence, drugs and poverty, but residents of Binghampton are proud to call it home.
Tiger softball has six games left, or two three-game series, against conference opponents. This weekend, they will face Tulsa at home, and they will play at Houston next weekend before heading to Tampa, Florida, for the American Athletic Conference Tournament.
The University of Memphis baseball team (13-28, 1-11 American Athletic Conference) will try to salvage their sub-par 2018 season with less than 15 games remaining.
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- Tigers add former Louisville Cardinal forward Lance Thomas
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- Alex Lomax becoming a role model for Memphis youth
- Memphis softball to continue conference play into summer
- Memphis baseball has suffered major losses during 2018 season, will look to rebound
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Though the college basketball season is still months away, the University of Memphis is steadily adding to its basketball roster. Just recently, the Tigers landed former Louisville Cardinals’ forward Lance Thomas.
Colorado Springs, Colorado – Memphis’ nickname is the Bluff City; however, it is only 337 feet above sea level and has no bearings on an athlete’s endurance. Unlike in Colorado Springs, Colorado, where many of the players at the Team USA U18 camp found themselves gasping for air and looking …
Colorado Springs, Colorado — Alex Lomax comes from a neighborhood where only the strong-minded can survive, the Binghampton neighborhood of Memphis. The area is notoriously known for its struggles with gun violence, drugs and poverty, but residents of Binghampton are proud to call it home.
Tiger softball has six games left, or two three-game series, against conference opponents. This weekend, they will face Tulsa at home, and they will play at Houston next weekend before heading to Tampa, Florida, for the American Athletic Conference Tournament.
The University of Memphis baseball team (13-28, 1-11 American Athletic Conference) will try to salvage their sub-par 2018 season with less than 15 games remaining.
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The role of an independent student newspaper at a university is somewhat complicated and often misunderstood, and it starts with the very definition of being independent.
Mitchell Koch
Editor-in-chief
I arrived to the University of Memphis in the fall of 2014. Memphis went 3-9 in 2013, Justin Fuente’s second season as head football coach. I expected to have four years of awful football and have four years of decent basketball, which included watching the Tigers in the NCAA Tournament.
Tubby Smith’s dismissal as the University of Memphis men’s basketball head coach surprised no one who had closely followed the team. The true shock came afterwards when multiple national pundits attacked Memphis, its supporters and the local media for the decision.
The last few decades in higher education have been marked by a dramatic rise in profit-oriented business-like models. This trend, one where students are simply customers, has negative consequences for everyone involved in an institution of higher learning. This is most obviously seen and fel…
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Blue Tom Records, a student-run record company at the University of Memphis, is hosting its fourth annual Hear 901 Festival at The Bluff on the Highland Strip on Saturday to showcase artists the company is working with this year.
LGBTQ activist, film historian and author Vito Russo, researched the representation of gender and sexual minorities in film from the 1920s to the ‘80s, and he found they are often portrayed as one-dimensional side characters, which he compiled in his book “The Celluloid Closet.” Today, the L…
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Managing Editor
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