The Commercial Appeal
The Commercial Appeal (also known as the Memphis Commercial Appeal) is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by Journal Media Group; its former owner, The E.W. Scripps Company, also owned the former afternoon paper, the Memphis Press-Scimitar, which it folded in 1983. The Commercial Appeal is a seven-day morning paper. It generally takes a liberal point of view regarding editorial positions. It is distributed primarily in Greater Memphis, including Shelby, Fayette, and Tipton counties in Tennessee and DeSoto, Tate, and Tunica counties in Mississippi. These are the contiguous counties to the city of Memphis. In 1994, The Commercial Appeal won a Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning by Michael Ramirez.
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In an Instagram post, Ja Morant announced, "coach 12ski is back!" The Memphis Grizzlies all-star point guard surprised a group of kids at a local basketball camp event. Morant played basketball with the kids before coaching them through drills and leaving them with a message. "Believe in yourself," Morant said. "Have confidence in yourself. There's going to be a lot of outside stuff that distracts your from your ultimate goal. Just stay locked in, tune it out and stay true to yourself." Morant provided the kids with Nike backpacks and...