The Mid-South Food Bank is desperately short of food right now. If you want to donate canned goods, the items most in need are tuna, peanut butter, chunky soup, cereal, and beans. An alternative is to donate cash. Because of relationships they have with distributors, every $1 you donate will buy $4 of food.
This isn’t a Downtown news item, but it affects all of Memphis: The MBJ reports that we may lose the annual Regions Morgan Keegan tennis tournament that happens every February. A buyer wants to move the tournament to Rio de Janiero, and the last hurdles are close to being cleared. Although I’m not a tennis fan personally, I hate to see Memphis lose this – not only for the loss of revenue to the city, but because Memphis would be less diverse sports-wise.
Flyer writer Chris Herrington has analysis of the Western Conference post-season. The Grizzlies had a heck of a weekend, beating Miami to snap their 17-game home winning streak on Friday. The team then beat Dallas at home the following night. We’re currently fifth in the Western Conference, and it’s possible we could surpass the Clippers and the Lakers to get as high as a 3 seed. Herrington has us at 4, and I tend to agree. No matter what our seed is, the one thing I’d like for us to do is avoid the OKC Thunder as long as possible in the playoffs, and hope another team eliminates them early.
Sometimes being nice pays off… After winning/contributing to a win for 3 years straight, I decided not to go for the Flying Saucer Easter Keg (and the $100 bar tab for finding it) to give someone else a chance to win. About 7:30 last night the guys who found the keg brought it in, and invited me to their party. That was a very considerate gesture. Congratulations to them on the win.
Plans for tonight: Saucer. Pint Nite. I’m going to take the night off from poker at the Silly Goose, since I have the big final table at Blind Bear tomorrow night. If you want to play at the Goose, the games are 7:30 and 10.