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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Bryce Harper, Kyle Schwarber and Odúbel Herrera homered as interim manager Rob Thomson and the streaking Philadelphia Phillies won their season-high seventh straight game, beating the sagging Milwaukee Brewers 8-3 on Thursday. At 6-0, Thomson is off to the best start by a first-time major league manager since Boston’s Joe Morgan won […]

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Aaron Nola pitched eight sharp innings and the surging Philadelphia Phillies hit four home runs to rout the scuffling Milwaukee Brewers 10-0 on Wednesday night. The Phillies won their season-high sixth in a row, five of them since interim manager Rob Thomson took over when Joe Girardi was fired on Friday. The […]

If you are looking for a perfectly Memphis way to kick off your holiday weekend, we’ve got it. Head out to a movie screening with no idea which film you’ll be watching. All you know beforehand is that it is one of filmmaker Craig Brewer’s favorites.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — We hope you have your growl towels ready, because we’re just hours away from our Memphis Grizz taking on Golden State in Game 6 of the playoffs.  Many are still savoring Wednesday’s blowout win as the Grizz nation celebrated and chanted “Whoop That Trick.” Now, Memphis rapper Al Kapone tells us about […]

From the days of making his teachers and classmates laugh and on to audiences across the country. Rodney Perry has shown off his comedic skills on stages, television screens, and even films. And that includes Memphis’s own Craig Brewer latest movie, Coming Two America with Eddie Murphy! Rodney Perry was live with us to talk […]

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A little popcorn company from Memphis is getting some big national exposure from the premiere of the long-awaited Eddie Murphy film “Coming 2 America“. Pop’s Kernel Gourmet Popcorn made it into the hundreds of VIP boxes passed out to celebrities, bloggers, and other content creators ahead of the March 5 release on […]

Decades after the original hit the big screen, the much anticipated sequel for Eddie Murphy’s “Coming 2 America” arrives in theaters. WREG’s Alex Coleman had the change to chat with the director Craig Brewer about the project on Live at 9.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Movie fans listen up — “Coming 2 America,” the long-awaited sequel to Eddie Murphy’s hit 1988 romantic comedy will be released Friday, and the man Murphy entrusted with the task of making movie magic is Memphis filmmaker Craig Brewer. WREG’s Alex Coleman talked one-on-one with Brewer about reuniting with Murphy and the […]

NEW YORK (AP) — When Eddie Murphy made the original “Coming to America,” he was, almost indisputably, the funniest man in America. Murphy was at the very height of his fame, coming off “Beverly Hills Cop II” and the stand-up special “Raw.” They were heady times. Arsenio Hall, Murphy’s longtime friend and co-star in “Coming […]

MEMPHIS — After losing out on a season of baseball at Autozone Park last year due to COVID-19, the Redbirds will be back in 2021. In a new look division with a number of new look opponents. All part of the realignment being done to the minors by Major League Baseball. When the 144-game season […]