{"id":17799,"date":"2016-03-25T11:25:49","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=17799"},"modified":"2016-03-25T11:25:49","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T16:25:49","slug":"friday-update-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/25\/friday-update-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago during the heavy rain, there was a mudslide on the bluff at Riverside Drive, de-stablizing the river walk above. City engineers hope to stabilize and re-open the bluff walk by Memphis in May.<\/a><\/p>\n

Speaking of Memphis in May, the official 2016 BBQ Fest poster<\/a> is now on sale.<\/p>\n

There’s a USA Soccer Watch Party tonight at the Brass Door, with two matches that have huge implications for the USA men’s team. At 5 is the first leg of the qualifying playoff for the Olympics, with the U-23s playing Colombia. At 9:00 the USA first team takes on Guatemala in the semifinal of qualifying for the 2018 World Cup.<\/p>\n

The Grizzlies are hosting an Assists for St. Jude<\/a> donation drive. You can pledge to donate 10 cents, 50 cents, a dollar, or whatever amount you prefer for each assist the Grizzlies record between now and April 5. Point guard Mike Conley led off the drive with a pledge of $15 to donate per assist.<\/p>\n

Stanford will hire UAB’s Jerod Hasse as men’s basketball head coach.<\/a> Why do Memphians care about this? Because Grizzlies commentator and former player Brevin Knight was under consideration for the job. I enjoy Brevin’s commentary and am pleased we will get to hear more of it. If head coaching is his dream job, though, I hope he gets the chance one day.<\/p>\n

Here’s a video of a car falling 4 stories off a parking garage<\/a>. Something similar happened Downtown several years ago, in the garage cat-a-corner to the Flying Saucer at Second and Peabody Place.<\/p>\n

Check out the Peabody Hotel’s celebrity visitor photo album<\/a>.<\/p>\n

My group of friends were discussing this last night: Women would destroy Trump in a general election.<\/a><\/p>\n

Office closes at 3 today, so I will lead off at Silly Goose at 4. Last night I enjoyed the Goose more than I have in a long while and I expect that trend to continue today. Might have to make a run over to the Brass Door, though, to practice newly-acquired language skills. At 6 I will head south for South Main Trolley Night. I still intend to have that drink at Nate’s bar too. Happy Good Friday everyone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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