Everyone in Memphis needs an electric mosquito zapper tennis racket.
Let’s have a look at this week’s college football games of interest.
Today
- Arkansas State at South Alabama, 6:30 PM, ESPN2
Saturday
- 10 LSU at 17 Vanderbilt, 11:00 AM, ABC
- 4 Texas A&M at Arkansas, 2:30 PM, ESPN
- 5 Ole Miss at 9 Georgia, 2:30 PM, ABC
- 22 Memphis at UAB, 3:00 PM, ESPN2
- Mississippi State at Florida, 3:15 PM, SEC Network
- 11 Tennessee at 6 Alabama, 6:30 PM, ABC
- 20 USC at 13 Notre Dame, 6::30 PM, NBC
- Florida Atlantic at 19 South Florida, 6:30 PM, ESPNU
- 16 Missouri at Auburn, 6:45 PM, SEC Network
- 23 Utah at 15 BYU, 7:00 PM, FOX
South Florida is the team all Memphians need to cheer to lose Saturday. The Bulls stand in the way of our Memphis Tigers being the top-ranked Group of Five school and earning a berth to the CFP.
Soul & Spirits Brewing has its 4th anniversary party Saturday 12 to 8. Exclusive limited glassware, Smoke & Toast food truck, and the release of the brewery’s first-ever bottled beer, a Belgian Dark.
Memphis’ best beer festival, Cooper-Young Beerfest, is Saturday. If you’re more interested in learning about the beer than getting your photo in the society pages, this is the beer festival for you.
Get your first look at the Memphis Tigers men’s and women’s basketball teams at Ballin’ on Beale Thursday night 6 to 8. Free admission. Performances by the pom and cheer squads.
Bring the kids to Boo at the Ballpark at AutoZone Park Saturday from noon to 4. Trick-or-treating. pumpkin decorating, costume contests, hayrides, a dance party, Kids’ Zone. Free. First 1000 kids get a jack-o-lantern trick-or-treating bag.
Author Lorraine Gibson will sign her book Elvis: The King of Fashion Saturday 4-6 at Lansky at the Peabody.
It’s National Dessert Day. The hot fudge pie at Westy’s is my recommendation to celebrate.
it’s also national lowercase day.
I’ll agree with other Earnestine & Hazel’s customers that Allison’s Soul Burgers taste like the ones Russell George used to make. She works tonight 5-midnight or later. Last night so many people ordered burgers that she ran out.
Applying for gig-economy work today. Wish me luck. If I land the gig I’ll say more about it. Back tomorrow with more news.
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