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Julie Lansky of Lansky Bros. and Jeff McCall of TruGreen Inc. have been selected to a national list of influential young executives.The Business Journals Influencers: Rising Stars spotlights 100 people in business across the country who are having an impact relatively early in their careers on their companies and their communities. And, because theyre still early in their careers, these executives could be shaping how business gets done in cities across the country for years to come.Click

Amazon.com Inc. executives are putting boots on the ground in some major U.S. cities. Thats because the Seattle-based e-commerce giant is narrowing the list of finalists for its $5 billion second-headquarters project. The news indicates that the process, which has lasted more than a year, is coming to a close. According to The Wall Street Journal, the visits over the past couple of months include New York City, Newark and Chicago. In addition, the Jeff Bezos-led company has been following up

With the rise of e-commerce and a wave of retirements, FedEx is ready to fund future aviation professionals. FedEx Express a subsidiary of Memphis-based FedEx Corp. announced Oct. 18 it will provide $2.5 million in grants via its newly created FedEx Purple Runway Aviation Scholarship program. As part of that, FedEx Express is partnering with six universities and technical schools that provide training for students interested in being pilots, aircraft maintenance technicians or other aviation

In a matchup of Tigers Saturday afternoon, Missouri asserted itself as dramatically superior to the visitors from Memphis. In rolling up 646 yards against an overmatched Memphis defense, Missouri scored the most points against the Tigers in 39 years. Florida State beat the Tigers 66-17 on November 17, 1979. Memphis quarterback Brady White entered the contest having thrown but one interception in seven games. He threw two in the loss, the first of them returned 42 yards for a touchdown by Christian Holmes early in the first quarter to give Mizzou a 14-0 lead. The Tigers closed the deficit to four points 21-17 early in the second quarter when White connected with Tony Pollard for a 30-yard touchdown. But Missouri scored four touchdowns over the final nine minutes of the first half to put the game out of reach. Two of the touchdowns were scored by Albert Okwuegbunam, who caught a third scoring strike from Mizzou quarterback Drew Lock in the third quarter. Okwuegbunam finished the game with 159 yards on six receptions. Lock completed 23 of 29 passes for 350 yards and four touchdowns. The countrys leading rusher, Memphis tailback Darrell Henderson, was limited to four carries for 15 yards by a hamstring injury and did not play in the second half. Patrick Taylor rushed for 103 yards and scored a pair of touchdowns. White completed only 15 of 37 passes for 208 yards and two touchdowns. Damonte Coxie caught eight of the passes for 111 yards and a score. The loss is the 28th in 31 games against SEC foes for Memphis since the Tigers upset of Tennessee in 1996. Their next SEC tilt will be against Ole Miss in the 2019 season opener. Missouri will visit Memphis in 2023. The loss drops Memphis to 4-4 while Missouri improves to 4-3. The local Tigers have a bye week before traveling to East Carolina where theyll resume American Athletic Conference play on November 3rd.

There are lots of reasons you should be excited about this years Grizzlies. The Memphis Grizzlies will catch you, the NBA and maybe even themselves off guard in 2018-19. If the team can stay healthy, Marc Gasol and Mike Conley will enjoy a supporting cast thats the best fit for their talents theyve ever had and one thats ideal for the pace-and-space era. You heard it here first: Assuming the Grizzlies avoid the kinds of extraordinary injury issues that plagued the past two seasons, they will make the playoffs. If the Grizzlies are healthy in the playoffs, this seasons iteration of the team will be well-suited to upset any of the NBAs current elite, so yes ... they could win it all. Memphis hasnt seen Marc Gasol and Mike Conley play a meaningful stretch of games since Tony Allen and Zach Randolphs departure fundamentally reshaped the landscape of the court by adding spacing and broadening lanes to the rim. Conley was playing the best offensive basketball of his career in the season before last years injury-wash. Marc Gasol started shooting threes just two seasons ago, and the Grizzlies have not been able to utilize this aspect of his game while paired with Conley at his best for any length of time. In his 2017-18 League Pass Watchability rankings, analyst Zach Lowe said, Gasol and Conley work the most subtly gorgeous two-man game in the league a bob-and-weave, give-and-go symphony only possible when two genius players compile a half-decade of shared knowledge. Lowe came to this assessment when Conley and Gasol played on a team that routinely offered the leagues worst spacing. This unparallelled two-man game will fuel many wins if its operating on a team that can space the floor, knock down open threes, and widen driving lanes to the rim. The return of the Conley/Gasol two-man game, and the fate of the win now Grizzlies, mainly rests in Conleys hands. His value cant be overstated for Memphis: Hes an elite NBA point guard who can carry the team with his scoring and facilitate the offense as a floor general. The Grizzlies have no replacement for what Conley brings to the team, and they will not contend if he cant play or if hes seriously limited. Speaking of which, theres a frightening stat that shows guards under a certain height experience a tremendous statistical drop off after a certain age, and Conley is a candidate to fit that pattern. On his fantastic Patreon page, writer Matt Hrdlicka calculated a list of guards 63 or under, age 29 or older, who were as good as Conley was in 2016-17. The list is only five people long, including Conley, and features Chris Paul, 2016-17 Kyle Lowry, and Chauncey Billups and Steve Nash. The majority of smaller guards not on this list experienced drop-offs in explosiveness and quickness, two things Conley will need in order to get to the rim, set up his teammates, and play at a level where its still reasonable for the Grizzlies to win. Conleys time in the league and the energy hes had to expend for the Grizzlies to win stands out on Hrdlickas list, so the odds and time wouldnt appear to be on Conleys side. Which is to say, it may be now or never for these Grizzlies. The hope is that a healthier team, and new ball-handling and play-making personnel, will alleviate Conleys burden and prolong his ability to play in the league. Speaking of new guys ... Kyle Anderson may end up being the biggest Grizzlies non-draft acquisition since Zach Randolph. Like Randolph, hes contractually locked in to spend his prime years with Memphis. Anderson likely wont have the same cultural impact as ZBo nor the potent, ride-that-horse type of scoring, but he will be able to defend multiple positions against the best teams in the NBA, take over some ball-handling and facilitation responsibilities, and stick around for a while. Anderson probably wont be awarded accolades like Tony Allen got as the leagues best one-on-one defender, but he will be a better and more versatile overall team defender. Its a role thats better suited for combatting the pace-and-space Curry-Thompson-Durants and CP3-Harden team-ball that now dominates the league instead. Plus, unlike Allen, who was often a liability on offense, Anderson can keep the offense running. Also, with Anderson potentially in the starting lineup, Conley wont have to hit the gas as often, and can play off the ball. I cant wait to see how Anderson looks in an expanded role. Another development this season that may take many by surprise is Chandler Parsons. Ever since the ill-considered Chancun Instagram, weve grown accustomed to Parsons maintaining a relatively clean PR presence. Hes now sharing Instagram videos of innovative workouts and gym shootarounds. But he kicked things up a notch this year by writing a letter to Memphis in the Players Tribune. Chandler basically tried to bury the hatchet with frustrated Grizzlies fans and detailed the impressive efforts hes made to rehab his body. He says he woke up early and spent most of his days rehabbing and fortifying his body with a litany of exercises. He flew to Germany so doctors could inject his knees with enormous needles, using the same treatment that revived Eric Gordons career. Parsons certainly makes the case that this year will be different, and if training camp and preseason have been any indication, he might be telling the truth. Hes running the court well, knocking down threes, and even played both nights in a pre-season back-to-back. Parsons wants to prove that he still has it, and he appears to be on track to becoming a reliable wing that can provide scoring and playmaking off the bench. If his health and ability return to near what the Grizzlies signed him to be, the Grizzlies could start either Parsons or Anderson, depending on the defense and shooting necessitated by the opponent. So, Kyle Anderson may be the biggest acquisition since Zbo ... unless its year-three Chandler Parsons pulling an Eric Gordon. If thats the case, look for Conley and Gasols efficiency and production to spike in ways not unlike the success seen by other stars around the league who are teaming up in threes and fours. The Grizzlies also appear to be on the verge of starting their best shooting guard since Courtney Lee. Garrett Temple, the likely starter, is a reliable veteran and a classic 3-and-D player. He will also help the Grizzlies reclaim their strong defensive identity. Dont sleep on Wayne Selden, though. Hes another player that could catch people off guard this season. Analysts pinned him for a potential big breakout season at the beginning of last year, but he was sidelined due to the same quad-injury that plagued Kawhi Leonard. Seldens sample size from when he was healthy with the Grizzlies is tiny, but he shot very well from three and packed a lot of athleticism and rim-attacking ability into the two spot. Its another small sample size, but Selden thrived when he was given the opportunity in a preseason game against the Pacers, scoring 16 points and dishing nine assists in 27 minutes of play. Selden could provide more of a scoring punch in the starting lineup, or serve as a backup point guard behind Conley. Having options for backup point guard is another overlooked development that will make this team more successful than most have predicted this season. The Marc & Mike Grizzlies have frequently suffered from not having a backup primary ball-handler that can facilitate the offense. By adding a veteran backup point guard like Shelvin Mack, and ball-handlers like Kyle Anderson, Conley wont have to shoulder the floor general burden alone. JaMychal Green is another player who could surprise people with his effort and production this season. Itll be a contract year for the power forward, and he should see better looks more often from deep with the makeup and health of this years roster. Greens steady ability to defend the four and space the floor gives rookie Jaren Jackson Jr. plenty of time to adapt to the NBA, which is nice, because overextended young big men tend to get injured. Speaking of Jaren Jackson Jr., I think its possible he may go down as the best player to ever wear a Grizzlies uniform. His youth, size, quickness, ability to guard the perimeter, block rate, 3-point percentage, and FT percentage made Jacksons ceiling and unicorn potential stand out in the recent draft class. The Commercial Appeals Peter Edmiston, one of my favorite number-crunching analysts covering the Grizzlies, had Luka Doncic and Jaren Jackson Jr. on a tier far above everyone else, and I think hell end up being right in his assessment. Jackson can defend the perimeter, protect the rim, space the floor, hit threes, and sink free throws. Many big men arent able to remain on the court late in games due to poor free throw shooting and difficulty guarding the perimeter. Jackson will have no such issues. But Grizzlies fans will need to be patient with Jackson, as foul problems should be expected for a 19-year-old rookie big man. If Jackson had one serious knock on his NBA potential going into the draft, it was his ability to score in the paint and the post, but that aspect of his game has steadily improved with each game hes played. Dont forget to thank the tanking gods for Triple-J. One of the most difficult reads an NBA teams front office and head coach have to make is whether their team should try to win now or rebuild for the future. How much of your future are you willing to compromise to try to win at this moment Should the rotation lean on its stars and veterans if mid-level playoff success is not a forgone conclusion How do you walk the line between winning games and developing players further down the bench so your team becomes deeper and ultimately better equipped to compete in the playoffs The call was easy to make last season. With Conley going down early, Parsons not healthy for most of the season, and Gasol being the only star besides Tyreke Evans on a team with no consistency or identity, it was clear that the season was a wash. To anti-tankers: I say Jaren Jackson Jr. is better than losing in the first round of the playoffs and getting some broke-ass project like Michael Porter Jr. Injuries have kept the Grizzlies from finding and refining their next identity. Memphis has been wandering in the wilderness, to an extent, ever since Grit n Grind reached the true end of its road in a four-game sweep by the Spurs in the 2013 Western Conference Finals. The Grizzlies finally moved on from that anachronistic blueprint in 2017, when they shipped off ZBo and TA, but the team had barely scratched the surface of its new identity last year beating the Warriors and Rockets in the first couple weeks of the season before Conley went down. The Grizzlies were lauded for having some of the best locker-room chemistry in the league before falling on hard times. And in that nadir season, what was the worst thing that happened Marc Gasol got fussy That pales in comparison to the days of punching teammates in the face over gambling debts while on the team plane, or the well-documented feuds that have plagued other teams in the league. Another bonus from last years disastrous tank-a-thon season was Dillon Brooks, who grew into a solid rotation player and gives the team yet another weapon. The Grizzlies have a mature locker room that isnt driven by ego, and additions such as Garrett Temple and Anderson can only fortify the status quo. The Grizzlies team chemistry up and down the roster should prove to be an advantage as new players gel and find their roles. On the Grizzlies Media Day, Conley said he and Gasol had signed their recent contracts with the intention of retiring as Grizzlies. When pressed about his plans in the year before his player option, Gasol was less forthcoming, saying that it was hard for him to make guarantees when he didnt know what the future would look like. It wouldve been nice if hed given a more comforting response, but I think Gasol appreciates better than most how much the unknown governs the game and players careers. The Grizzlies could get bitten by the injury bug again, and Gasol might find himself wanting to join another team to contend for a title while he still has gas left in the tank. In a worst-case scenario, this could be Conley and Gasols last season playing together in Memphis. But it could also be a beginning that brings a return of high-level playoff action to FedExForum. I think most of the litany of unknowns going into the season will reveal themselves as unexpected positives. And I believe that you should be more excited for NBA basketball in Memphis than ever before.

When voters opt to enlarge type button on polling machines in Shelby County, gubernatorial candidate Karl Deans name gets pushed from the top of the first page of gubernatorial candidates to the second page of candidates, after the many independents also running for the seat. Shelby County Election Commission officials said the official order of the listing of candidates names comes from the state. Tennessee election law says nominees on ballots here shall be listed in the following order: majority party, minority party, and recognized minor party, if any. That Deans name is kicked to a second page, after independents, when enlarge type is pressed is simply a characteristic of Shelby County voting machines, election officials here said. They decided to format the ballot that way, they said, because they thought itd be better to have Deans name appear at the top of a page than at the bottom. Deans campaign did not immediately respond to questions about the situation, and has not, so far, said anything public about it. U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen did take the matter to social media, saying this should not have happened.

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Memphis heads into its bye with three losses in four games, and serious questions to answer if it wants to salvage this season.

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Tigers not only lose the game but the nations leading rusher, Darrell Henderson, missed most of the game with an injured hamstring.

President Donald Trump said Saturday he will pull the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty because Russia has violated the agreement, but he provided no details on the violations.