With his coach as their main motivator, junior Memphis guard Antonio Anderson and Junior forward Robert Dozier will enter the NBA Draft without hiring an agent. Coach Calipari advised them to test the waters in order to get into the NBA pre-draft game and see what how they stacks up in the eyes of NBA ...
My five years are up. There's no more denying it or putting it out of mind. This is the last column, the last thing I will write as the sports editor of The Daily Helmsman. I considered doing a cliché send-off about how leaving college sucks, but TJ already beat me to it. Then I considered doing a ...
After leading the Memphis Tigers to the National Championship game, All-American guard Chris Douglas-Roberts said he will skip his final year of NCAA eligibility to enter the NBA Draft. Douglas-Roberts, or CDR, as he is known among Memphis fans, led the Tigers in scoring, three-point percentage and ...
After much anticipation, one of the country's last undecided high-profile basketball recruits announced he will spend next season at The University of Memphis. Tyreke Evans, the most valuable player of the McDonald's All American game last month made his announcement Wednesday afternoon at his Philidelphia ...
As of Tuesday night, Memphis' Derrick Rose is one-and-done. So are Kansas State's Michael Beasley and Indiana's Eric Gordon. The Lopez twins from Stanford will leave after two years in college, while UCLA's Kevin Love and Darren Collison are still undecided about their college/professional futures. But, ...
Not only did the Memphis Lady Tigers soccer team have a season to remember in 2007, they had a spring season to remember in 2008. The 2007 Conference USA champions played 11 games this spring, including three games in Argentina during spring break. This week, the Lady Tigers ended the spring with a ...
Going into spring practice, the Memphis football team was eager to get back on the field and continue on the momentum of a 7-6 2007 season. During the off season, the Tigers made several personnel and staff additions that should insure the 2008 Tigers will be a team with new faces but the same mentality. "Overall, ...
The Memphis baseball team (12-19, 3-6 Conference USA) did the one thing they needed to in Tuesday's win over Mississippi State - end their nine-game losing skid before they began their string of five games away from Nat Buring Stadium. The first three games of that road trip will be played this weekend ...
Few subjects in sports spark more heated debates than the designated hitter (DH) rule in baseball. Some people love it, most baseball purists hate it and some teams can't live without it. I mean the 2004 Boston Red Sox probably wouldn't have won the World Series without the clutch hit of DH David Ortiz. Sunday ...
Prior to Tuesday night's game against the Mississippi State Bulldogs (14-18) at AutoZone Park, the Memphis Tigers baseball team (12-19, 3-6 Conference USA) was 1-4 against Southeastern Conference teams and 0-4 in one-run games during their nine-game losing skid. All that changed two nights ago as the ...
