{"id":28153,"date":"2024-08-30T10:28:32","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:28:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28153"},"modified":"2024-08-30T10:28:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T15:28:32","slug":"friday-update-293","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/30\/friday-update-293\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s have a look at college football games this weekend of interest to Memphians:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Arkansas 70, Ark-Pine Bluff 0 (yesterday)<\/li>\n<li>14 Clemson vs. 1 Georgia in Atlanta, 11:00 AM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>Chattanooga at 15 Tennessee, 11:45 AM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li>19 Miami at Florida, 2:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>Eastern Kentucky at Mississippi State, 5:00 PM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li>Western Kentucky at 5 Alabama, 6:00 PM, ESPN<\/li>\n<li>Furman at 6 Ole Miss, 6:00 PM, SEC Network<\/li>\n<li>Central Arkansas at Arkansas State, 6:00 PM, ESPN+<\/li>\n<li><strong>North Alabama at Memphis, 6:00 PM, ESPN+<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>7 Notre Dame at 20 Texas A&amp;M, 6:30 PM, ABC<\/li>\n<li>23 USC at 13 LSU, 6:30 PM Sunday in Las Vegas, ABC<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nice to see a few matchups that aren&#8217;t Power Four powerhouse vs. cream puff in Week 1.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Memphis will host a Hospitality Night on Beale Street Tuesday, September 3 from 6 to 8 PM. Servers, housekeepers, wait staff, bartenders, chefs, cooks, bussers, come on out. Free food &amp; drinks to the first 100. Discounts, giveaways, live music at Alfred&#8217;s, history tour of the street. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/hospitality-night-tickets-1002493985497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">RSVP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beer recommendation: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeradvocate.com\/beer\/profile\/41783\/280767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Old Nation Boss Tweed<\/a>, a New England IPA. I tried one at Pint Nite at the Saucer on Monday and it was the most delicious IPA I have had in years. 97 score on Beer Advocate.<\/p>\n<p>In other Saucer news, they&#8217;ll have half-priced wings (dine-in only) during NFL Thursday Night Football games this season. Also, the Saucer will have the NFL Sunday Ticket package again this season.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/f0752686d926d77f91f3b3575223047e\/national-mai-tai-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Mai Tai Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/businessreal-estate\/article\/46031\/st-jude-childrens-research-hospital-buys-pinch-district-land\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">St. Jude has purchased Tom Intrator&#8217;s properties in the Pinch.<\/a> They were expected to be developed into 900 hotel rooms as well as office space. The purchase will give the children&#8217;s hospital a presence on North Main.<\/p>\n<p>The DM has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailymemphian.com\/section\/neighborhoodsdowntown\/article\/45992\/memphis-2024-901-day-events\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a list of ways to celebrate 901 Day<\/a> on September 1.<\/p>\n<p>The CA has a look at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/picture-gallery\/entertainment\/2024\/08\/28\/tom-lee-park-in-downtown-memphis\/74880609007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tom Lee Park&#8217;s first year<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roadandtrack.com\/news\/a61438882\/jeep-ducking-trend-founder-allison-parliament-dies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Why people put rubber ducks on Jeeps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Main Trolley Night is tonight 6 to 9.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it for now.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong>Venmo:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/account.venmo.com\/u\/Paul-Ryburn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">@Paul-Ryburn<\/a>\u00a0(8113 if it asks for digits)<br \/>\nCash App: $PaulRyburn1<br \/>\nZelle: paul@paulryburn.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let&#8217;s have a look at college football games this weekend of interest to Memphians: Arkansas 70, Ark-Pine Bluff 0 (yesterday) 14 Clemson vs. 1 Georgia in Atlanta, 11:00 AM, ABC Chattanooga at 15 Tennessee, 11:45 AM, SEC Network 19 Miami at Florida, 2:30 PM, ABC Eastern Kentucky at Mississippi State, 5:00 PM, SEC Network Western &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2024\/08\/30\/friday-update-293\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Friday update&#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\/28153"}],"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=28153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28156,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28153\/revisions\/28156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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