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The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area.It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983.
Robert Lewis Jr. became a business leader in Memphis, and was noted for his efforts at establishing T. O. Fuller State Park. Other noted achievements include advocating for the hiring of the first African-American firefighters in Memphis in 1955, being the first African-American appointed to the city's Alcohol Beverage Commission, and ...
The renovations are scheduled to be completed before the 2026 Memphis football season and will affect the 2024 and 2025 SHC games. Jones said that will have significant impacts on the Classic's ...
Here is The Commercial Appeal's 2023 All-Metro football teams. This year's selections includes a first and second team. ... Morrow had 1,212 all-purpose yards and 12 total touchdowns. Defensively ...
In John Grisham's novel The Client, the Memphis Press is fictionally presented as still existing and flourishing as a major Memphis paper into the 1990s.. In the 2004 movie The Ladykillers, during the basement scene where Tom Hanks's character Professor Goldthwaite Higginson Dorr describes forming the crew for the heist, he references having posted an ad in the Memphis Scimitar, which the ...
TOM (Tigers Of Memphis) is the name of three Bengal tigers which have served as the mascot of the Memphis Tigers since 1972. The most recent, TOM III, was a beloved Bengal tiger mascot for the University of Memphis during one of the most glorious periods in University and athletics history.
Derrick Crawford (born September 3, 1960) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL), the United States Football League (USFL) and the Canadian Football League (CFL).
John R. Brinkley (1885–1945), charlatan physician and radio pioneer [12] Christopher Byers (died 1993), victim of the West Memphis Three [13] Walter Chandler (1887–1967), U.S. Representative from Tennessee and mayor of Memphis [14] Clifford Davis (1897–1970), U.S. Representative from Tennessee [15] Charlie Feathers (1932–1998), American ...