The Memphis Tigers got a victory over Tennessee Tech last night, 89-65. In case you’re wondering who the starters were, Penny went with Alex Lomax, DeAndre Williams, Lester Quinones, Emoni Bates, and Jalen Duren. Good news for the Tigers – Chandler Lawson’s transfer paperwork from Oregon was completed. He was eligible for last night’s game, and came off the bench.
Attention artists: Real 2 Reel Photography will host an artists’ show and sale on their patio and sidewalk December 3, 4, and 5. If you want to sell some of your art in time for Christmas, this might be just the show for you. Artists can call David at 901-508-7324 to make arrangements.
The CA has a look at the new Makeda’s Cookies bakery at 301 Jefferson. Makeda’s is famous for its butter cookies, and the new location doubles the space of the previous 488 S. Second location. They plan on adding 70 more grocery stores to their distribution in 2022, and their cookies will be available at Kroger.
Slightly disturbing: The 7-day rolling average of new COVID cases in Shelby County was 79 Saturday, 82 Sunday and Monday, and 88 yesterday. That’s far from enough data to suggest the beginning of a fifth surge but we need to keep an eye on that number.
The Grizzlies host the Charlotte Hornets tonight at 7. The game will be on Bally Sports Southeast. Dillon Brooks’ availability for tonight’s game has been upgraded to questionable. He’s been out so far this season recovering from hand surgery.
The Flyer’s Michael Donahue has photos from this past weekend’s Grind City Coffee Xpo at Wiseacre Downtown. He has some Trolley Night pics too.
The Peabody will become a special tourism tax zone to pay for future upgrades over the next 30 years, the DM reports. The current building housing the hotel opened in 1925 and there are a lot of behind-the-scenes upgrades that need to be done.
Renovation work has begun on the DMC’s building at the northeast corner of N. Main and Adams. The DMC is looking for “mission-aligned tenants” for the upper floors. Nonprofits and minority businesses are seen as good fits.
The Canopy Hotel across from AutoZone Park seeks a night auditor.
Now that the new CFP rankings are out, let’s have a look at this weekend’s college football games of interest to those in the Mid-South. All games to be played Saturday unless otherwise noted:
- 5 Cincinnati at South Florida, 5:00 PM Friday, ESPN2
- New Mexico State at 2 Alabama, 11 AM, SEC Network
- 8 Oklahoma at 13 Baylor, 11 AM, FOX
- Mississippi State at 17 Auburn, ESPN
- UCF at SMU, 11 AM, ESPNU
- East Carolina at Memphis, 11 AM, ESPN+
- Houston at Temple, 11 AM, ESPN+
- 1 Georgia at Tennessee, 2:30 PM, CBS
- 19 Purdue at 4 Ohio State, 2:30 PM, ABC
- Arkansas State at UL Monroe, 4:00 PM, ESPN+
- 11 Texas A&M at 15 Ole Miss, 6:00 PM, ESPN
- 16 NC State at 12 Wake Forest, 6:30 PM, ACC Network
- 25 Arkansas at LSU, 6:30 PM, SEC Network
- Washington State at 3 Oregon, 9:30 PM, ESPN
Cincinnati fans better put the TV on ABC at 2:30 and cheer like crazy for the Boilermakers. Purdue is Cincinnati’s ticket to the CFP.
The latest bowl projections have Kansas State and Mississippi State coming here to the Liberty Bowl on December 28. Sounds good. Mississippi State fans are cool and we know from previous Liberty Bowls that K-State fans travel extremely well.
It’s normal for people to complain about Facebook and what it selects to appear in people’s feeds, but I have to compliment Facebook on a recent decision its algorithm made for me. It decided I should be shown videos tagged with #babystabbies, which are of a mother cat and her four adorable kittens. As much arguing over politics as I see as I scroll through my news feed, the kittens are a welcome sight.
I had a few extra hours at home yesterday, so I upgraded my laptop to Windows 11. Not much different from Windows 10 other than the Start menu is not as good. Once this professional writing thing starts bringing in more income, I hope to get another MacBook.
Get outside and enjoy this day, because it will be the nicest one we have for a while. MemphisWeather.net has us at 72/58 with rain not arriving until after midnight. After the cold front moves through, we’re looking at 50s-60s highs and 30s-low 40s lows for a while.
That’ll do it for now. Back tomorrow.