{"id":28451,"date":"2025-03-08T10:14:48","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T16:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/?p=28451"},"modified":"2025-03-08T10:14:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T16:14:48","slug":"readers-i-have-an-assignment-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/08\/readers-i-have-an-assignment-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Readers, I have an assignment for you."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to root for the following men&#8217;s basketball teams to LOSE BIG in their conference tournaments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Oregon<\/li>\n<li>Louisville<\/li>\n<li>Missouri<\/li>\n<li>UCLA<\/li>\n<li>Michigan<\/li>\n<li>Saint Mary&#8217;s<\/li>\n<li>Clemson<\/li>\n<li>Marquette<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You see, ESPN&#8217;s latest bracketology has YOUR AAC REGULAR-SEASON CHAMPIONS AND AAC TOURNAMENT 1 SEED MEMPHIS TIGERS projected as a 7 seed in the NCAA tournament. The teams listed above are projected 5 and 6 seeds. We need them to LOSE so our Tigers can move up.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigers defeated South Florida 84-68 last night to ensure they wouldn&#8217;t have to share their regular-season title with anyone. I love it when the Tigers get greedy.<\/p>\n<p>Today is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.checkiday.com\/0e854467a3602ebce2522dd08d7a2d9d\/national-be-nasty-day\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Be Nasty Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A former Memphis Showboats football player is set to be honored next month. Larry Pfohl played for the team in 1984. He went on to become professional wrestler &#8220;The Total Package&#8221; Lex Luger. His induction into the WWE Hall of Fame was announced yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Bookstore and coffee shop Cafe Noir <a href=\"https:\/\/whatnow.com\/memphis\/restaurants\/cafe-noir-receives-25000-loan-for-bookstore-coffee-shop-in-memphis-edge-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is coming to The Edge<\/a> at 635 Madison. It is Black-owned and woman-owned.<\/p>\n<p>The annual Beale Street St. Patrick&#8217;s Day parade is next Saturday at 2 PM. WREG forecast a week out: 72\/50, 40% chance of rain.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/centralstationmemphis.com\/happenings\/quinette-w-alpha-whiskey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Quinette and Alpha Whiskey<\/a> spin the tunes at Central Station tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wreg.com\/news\/local\/collierville-pd-investigating-reports-of-drink-tampering-at-two-restaurants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Authorities are investigating possible drink tampering<\/a> at restaurants out in C&#8217;ville.<\/p>\n<p>From The Takeout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetakeout.com\/1804794\/elvis-favorite-fast-food-burger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Elvis and his crew loved Krystal burgers<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back tomorrow probably.<\/p>\n<p><em>It\u2019s free to read this blog, but I gratefully accept tips!\u00a0<\/em><br \/>\nVenmo:\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<br \/>\nApple Pay: paul.ryburn@gmail.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to root for the following men&#8217;s basketball teams to LOSE BIG in their conference tournaments: Oregon Louisville Missouri UCLA Michigan Saint Mary&#8217;s Clemson Marquette You see, ESPN&#8217;s latest bracketology has YOUR AAC REGULAR-SEASON CHAMPIONS AND AAC TOURNAMENT 1 SEED MEMPHIS TIGERS projected as a 7 seed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/08\/readers-i-have-an-assignment-for-you\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Readers, I have an assignment for you.&#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\/28451"}],"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=28451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28452,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28451\/revisions\/28452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<!-- WP Super Cache is installed but broken. 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