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MEMPHIS – Big day for Tiger basketball Friday. Okay, big day for Tiger basketball fans as Penny Hardaway gave us our first look at his new look Tigers.  A team made up mostly of prized transfers, players that took a chance on joining the U of M. That bet has paid off. Just a couple […]

TOKYO — James Wiseman, who missed all of last season while rehabilitating after a knee injury, scored 20 points on Friday as the defending champion Golden State Warriors defeated the Washington Wizards 96-87 to open the NBA preseason in Tokyo. Wiseman played 24 minutes, connecting on eight of 11 shots, while adding nine rebounds and […]

TOKYO (AP) — James Wiseman, who missed all of last season while rehabilitating after a knee injury, scored 20 points on Friday as the defending champion Golden State Warriors defeated the Washington Wizards 96-87 to open the NBA preseason in Tokyo. Wiseman played 24 minutes, connecting on eight of 11 shots, while adding nine rebounds […]

The days of postseason bans and crippling scholarship reductions to punish schools for breaking NCAA rules appear to be winding down. Memphis was placed on three years of probation earlier this week with a public reprimand and fined for NCAA violations related to the recruitment and short college career of James Wiseman, who is about […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn.– As students were going to and from class on the University of Memphis campus Tuesday morning, they learned that the Tigers basketball program would not face a ban on postseason play and head coach Penny Hardaway would not be suspended for allegations of recruiting violations. This decision will affect the student experience at future […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — In what is seen as a huge win for Memphis, the University of Memphis men’s basketball team will face a $5,000 fine and three years probation for Level II and Level III NCAA violations, according to a ruling released Tuesday morning. The penalties do not include any ban on postseason play for […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — The NCAA put Memphis on three years of probation with a public reprimand and a fine Tuesday, but declined to punish Tigers coach Penny Hardaway or hand down an NCAA Tournament ban. The NCAA had accused Memphis of four Level I and two Level II violations, considered the most serious infractions, […]

Kawhi Leonard was in the Los Angeles Clippers’ facility on Monday. That wasn’t exactly a surprise development. The news was his attire. He was wearing a basketball uniform. Finally. Welcome back, Kawhi. You too, Denver’s Jamal Murray, Brooklyn’s Ben Simmons, New Orleans’ Zion Williamson, the Clippers’ John Wall and plenty of others around the NBA. […]

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. (WREG) — Sunday was the Golden State Warriors’ Media Day giving us a chance to catch up with James Wiseman. The former Tiger center was very vulnerable in his media session when asked about his return to the game. Wiseman said he went to therapy during the year and a half he […]

MEMPHIS – First he was suspended at the University of Memphis, placing Penny Hardaway and the Tigers squarely in the sights of the NCAA. Now, the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association is stripping East High School of everything it accomplished with Hardaway on the bench and James Wiseman, on the floor. The TSSAA ordering East […]

Cinema’s biggest stars just seem to shine a bit brighter at the Venice International Film Festival, which begins this week in the Northern Italian city. Think of Lady Gaga, a woman who has never shied away from a grand entrance, somehow topping even herself delicately perched over the edge of a moving water taxi and […]