{"id":15854,"date":"2015-01-08T12:52:56","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T18:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=15854"},"modified":"2015-01-08T12:52:56","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T18:52:56","slug":"basketball-jobs-and-more-thursday-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/basketball-jobs-and-more-thursday-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Basketball, jobs, and more Thursday news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Tigers have a nationally televised road game tonight at SMU. ESPN2 will carry the game and tip-off is 8 PM. Do any Downtown bars plan on showing this game with sound? With the Kuran Iverson\/Twitter controversy that happened yesterday, the commentary could be quite interesting.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re into cars, the <a href=\"http:\/\/memphis-autoshow.com\/\">Memphis International Autoshow<\/a> happens Friday through Sunday at the Cannon Center.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re into science, technology, sci-fi, and superheroes, you might be able to win a prize tonight at Green Beetle trivia starting at 8 PM. Those topics and more will make up the questions in a special Geek Night.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve learned of a couple of top-drawer job openings in Memphis. Copeland Coaching has reported that there is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copelandcoaching.com\/2015\/01\/08\/featured-job-posting-director-memphis-grizzlies\/\">Director of Guest Relations<\/a> position open with the Grizzlies. The person hired will be responsible for providing a championship guest experience to the Grizzlies&#8217; customers. If you are job hunting, the Copeland Coaching site is one to bookmark, listing some of the best open positions in the city.<\/p>\n<p>The Memphis Daily News is looking to hire a <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.memphisdailynews.com\/?p=33680\">Managing Editor<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In RSVP Magazine&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rsvpmagazine.com\/voxpopular\">Vox Popular<\/a>, Center for Southern Folklore director Judy Peiser talks about the Center, its creation in 1972, upcoming plans for the Center, the Center&#8217;s media archive, and plans for the 2015 Memphis Music &amp; Heritage Festival.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groupon.com\/deals\/gl-memphis-grizzlies-1-10\">Groupon for upcoming Grizzlies games<\/a>. You get $24 for a Terrace II seat plus XL Grizzlies T-shirt, or $69 for a Club level seat plus Grizzlies scarf. Game options are Wed 1\/21 vs. Toronto, Mon 1\/26 vs. Orlando, Thur 1\/29 vs. Denver, or Brooklyn Tue 2\/10. When you purchase the deal, you get something called a G-Pass emailed to you 48 hours after the deal ends. You print out your G-Pass and take it to the door, with no need to go to Will Call. Due to security restrictions, you can&#8217;t use Groupon Mobile to display your G-Pass.<\/p>\n<p>The Grizzlies had an away game at Atlanta last night, and there was a big promotion for dating app Tinder called &#8220;Swipe Right Night&#8221;. The Sporting News reports that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/nba\/story\/2015-01-08\/atlanta-hawks-tinder-night-photos-swiperightatl-swipe-right?eadid=SOC\/Twi\/SNMain\">Swipe Right Night was a success<\/a> and matches were made during the game.<\/p>\n<p>Too much news to fit into a quick lunchtime post, so there may be a follow-up after work. Check back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Memphis Tigers have a nationally televised road game tonight at SMU. ESPN2 will carry the game and tip-off is 8 PM. Do any Downtown bars plan on showing this game with sound? With the Kuran Iverson\/Twitter controversy that happened yesterday, the commentary could be quite interesting. If you&#8217;re into cars, the Memphis International Autoshow &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/08\/basketball-jobs-and-more-thursday-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Basketball, jobs, and more Thursday news&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15855,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15854\/revisions\/15855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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