RIP Flying Fish. I walked by there yesterday and they were taking all the Big Mouth Billy Bass off the walls. The Downtown seafood restaurant lasted 18 years.
The Fish’s sibling restaurant Flying Saucer is still open.
Today is billionaire/Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates’ 70th birthday. billg was a mere 19 when he and Paul Allen founded what was then spelled Micro-Soft. INSIDER TIP: Learn to play bridge (the card game) and one day you might find yourself sitting at a table with Bill.
Let’s have a look at college football games this weekend of interest to Memphians. Remember, we want other Group of 5 teams contending for a CFP spot to lose.
Tuesday
- James Madison at Texas State, 7:00 PM, ESPN2
Thursday
- Tulane at UTSA, 6:30 PM, ESPN
Friday
- 25 Memphis at Rice, 6:00 PM, ESPN2
Saturday
- 9 Vanderbilt at 20 Texas, 11:00 AM, ABC
- Navy at North Texas, 11:00 AM, ESPN2
- 5 Georgia at Florida, 2:30 PM, ABC
- Mississippi State at Arkansas, 3:00 PM, SEC Network
- South Carolina at 7 Ole Miss, 6:00 PM, ESPN
- 18 Oklahoma at 14 Tennessee, 6:30 PM, ABC
- Kentucky at Auburn, 6:30 PM, SEC Network
- Arkansas State at Troy, 7:00 PM, ESPNU
- 17 Cincinnati at 24 Utah, 9:15 PM, ESPN
Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium is hiring an event manager.
Penny Hardaway’s Memphis Tigers lost 99-75 to Arkansas yesterday, but there’s good news. It was an exhibition game… so it won’t count! Coach Penny got many teachable moments on film. Plus, money was raised for St. Jude. That loss was in many ways a win for Memphis.
Back tomorrow with more news.
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