Hakim Warrick had 25 points, Chucky Atkins had 22, and Mike Miller had 14 assists as the Grizzlies beat the Nuggets in Denver. For a box-score and recap, go here. For analysis and deep thoughts from the Flyer‘s Chris Herrington, visit Beyond the Arc, our Grizblog.
Time magazine recently published “The All-TIME 100 Albums,” a list of what it considers the 100 greatest and most influential albums. So how many do you think Elvis has? 10? Five? Nope. One. The King has only one album in Time magazine’s Top 100.
Of course, Elvis was more known for his singles, so it’s not altogether surprisingly that the album Time chose was “30 Number 1 Hits.”
Time divides the albums by decade and Elvis ranks in the 2000s, alongside Hank Williams, Muddy Waters, and Kanye West.
See the full list here, or just wait until TIME LIFE starts running late-night infomercials on the inevitable 6-disc set.
UPDATE: Our thanks to Fishkite, who correctly noted that there are indeed two Elvis albums on the list. Our bad.
Scarcely a week before his father, former county commissioner Michael Hooks Sr., is due to be sentenced for his role in the Tennessee Waltz scandal, former school board member Michael Hooks Jr. has asked for, and been granted, additional time to review the government’s evidence against him.
At Hooks’ request during a Monday-morning hearing, U.S. District Judge Daniel Breen set a new report date of February 26. Acceding to the request was assistant U.S. Attorney Tim DiScenza, who told Breen, however, that he anticipated a trial of only “two or three days.”
Hooks’ attorney Glen Reid disagreed, saying that he might need “at least a week” just to present a response to the government’s evidence, including surveillance audio- and video-tapes of his client dealing with FBI agents posing as representatives of the fictitious E-Cycle company.
In August, the senior Hooks pleaded guilty to one count of taking bribes from the agents.
Eight Mexican nationals are in custody after Memphis Police discovered 1,300 pounds of marijuana, one kilo of cocaine, and over a half million dollars in a southwest Memphis home this morning.
The arrest came after a nine-month federal and local investigation of the drug ring. The drugs were imported from Mexico and distributed here. Memphis Police Director Larry Godwin says the men were receiving thousands of pounds of marijuana every three weeks.
“We’ve been trying to build a case and get [the drugs] when [they] were delivered. This morning was the time,” said Godwin at a press conference earlier today.
Also seized were 10 vehicles, two semi trucks, and one semi-trailer all used for drug distribution and an assortment of automatic weapons and pistols.
The case remains under investigation, and Godwin says more arrests are possible.
by Bianca Phillips
With apologies to college football traditionalists
everywhere, I’ve got some news to report: the first Saturday in December has
become the sport’s biggest day of the year. I can hear the protests filling
cyberspace. What in the name of Knute Rockne?! Madness! New Year’s Day . . . now
and forever!!
Nope. Not anymore. This Saturday — December 2nd on your
calendar — is the biggest and best day the college game has to offer.
First, a refresher on what New Year’s Day has become in
the 21st-century world of college football. Gone is the age when you killed your
hangover with an early dose of Cotton Bowl, followed by a mid-afternoon lunch
with the Rose Bowl, and an evening channel battle between the Sugar Bowl and
Orange Bowl. On January 1, 2007, there will be six bowl games for your viewing
pleasure, but nary a Sugar or Orange among them. Ever try killing a hangover
with an Outback Bowl? How about a Capital One Bowl? (That’s the one that has
Rockne throwing fits on his cloud.) And how, exactly, did the Gator Bowl — a
second-tier, opening act made for December if ever there was one — land on New
Year’s Day?
Worse yet, those six New Year’s bowl games will
represent less than 20 percent of college football’s “bowl season.” No fewer
than 32 postseason games will be played, starting with the — be quiet, Knute!
— Poinsettia Bowl on December 19th. More than half of the programs in Division
I-A will attend bowl games and, somehow, call the contest their biggest game of
the year.
What about the grand Orange Bowl, you ask? It’ll be held
January 2nd, after your work year has begun. The Sugar Bowl? January 3rd, when
your attention has already turned to the upcoming NFL playoffs. And get this.
The Sugar Bowl will be played FIVE DAYS before college football’s big sendoff.
The newly christened BCS Championship Game will be held on January 8th and won’t
even be the first bowl game played in January at Glendale Stadium in Arizona
(the Fiesta Bowl is held there, yes, on New Year’s Day). This, my college
football-cheering friends, is true madness.
So we turn to the first Saturday in December. Three of
the finest conferences in the land (the SEC, Big 12, and ACC) and even little
old Conference USA will hold old-fashioned — well, actually new-fashioned —
championship games. In the age of the “super conference” these four leagues have
figured out the virtue in deciding its champion on the field, with contestants
based on actual standings. No computers or voting system in the mix, whatsoever.
Two divisions per league, each with a first-place team to square off for all the
marbles. (And in the case of the SEC, Big 12, and ACC, an automatic bid to a
major — or BCS, for Bowl Championship Series — bowl hangs in the balance.)
Absolutely the closest thing to a legitimate playoff this great but flawed sport
will ever see.
Go ahead and make your plans for watching the Rose Bowl
on New Year’s Day, plotting how to dodge that Gator Bowl intruder as you channel
surf. I’ll be filling my fridge and seizing the remote control this Saturday.
Nebraska and Oklahoma from Kansas City for Big 12 Supremacy (glory to the late,
great Big 8). Georgia Tech taking on Wake Forest to prove that the ACC is worth
watching away from a basketball court (give ’em hell, Deacons!). And Arkansas
carrying the Mid-South torch into Atlanta to battle Florida for the SEC title.
(You C-USA loyalists can pick between Houston and Southern Miss.)
Somewhere, sometime during the infiltration of big-money
sponsors and the mighty hand of television, college football lost track of an
element that made it unique from the other major American spectator sports: a
single day during which the game’s finest played on multiple stages in a
nationwide festival of gridiron greatness. Good luck trying to find this day
once “bowl season” starts. The best the game has to offer now comes a week after
Thanksgiving. Worth putting off your holiday shopping one more day.
“The Memphis Grizzlies long have said Pau Gasol is untouchable, but maybe he isn’t so much anymore.
“There were reports this weekend that the Boston Celtics had interest in Gasol. There were also whispers in recent weeks that Gasol’s floating timetable to return from foot surgery is more about concern with the uncertainty surrounding the Memphis organization.”
The NBA vultures are circling, now that the Grizzlies have stumbled out of the blocks without their injured All-Star Pau Gasol. Trade rumors are everywhere, and now Chicago Tribune columnist Sam Smith chimes in.
Is it real or just an Internet hoax? People have been sending us images of this Elvis candy wrapper, but we can’t find out anything about it.
There’s nothing on the Reese’s products Web site and no sign of the product in local stores. Could it be the ghost of Elvis has struck again? Who knows? But if you find a package of this stuff, we’d sure like to see it. And eat it.
In a recent New York Times article about My Blueberry Nights, an upcoming movie by Wong Kar-wai starring Jude Law, Norah Jones, and Rachel Weisz, Wong says the setting plays prominently on Jones’ face.
“In Memphis,” he says, “there’s something very classic about her presence. In New York it’s very contemporary.”
We don’t know what that means, but we’re going to take it as a compliment.
Oh my. We just can’t get over this guy. We know you might have heard the rumor that David Gest might be slightly, possibly, just-a-tip gay. Not news. But with this still pic from his reality show, I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!, the combo is just too good to pass up. Check out some the Gest-man’s latest quotes and new round of gay denials, courtesy of our pals at towlerroad.com.
And yes, it’s a gay web site. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
“When they finally shook themselves out of the second quarter doldrums and got their heads back into the game, the Rockets made beating the Grizzlies look more than easy. They made it look fun.
“It was more than just Yao Ming rolling to 28 pints and 8 rebounds, more than Tracy McGrady putting up another Magic-line of 19 points, 13 assists and 5 rebounds.”
Read the rest of Houston Chronicle columnist Fran Blinebury’s column here, and his take on Rudy Gay versus Shane Battier here.