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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A good old-school Eastern Conference battle is coming to Boston. The Celtics begin their second-round playoff series Tuesday against the Cleveland Cavaliers (6 p.m. CT, TNT) in a matchup of two of the NBA's top-seven defenses. As good as those defenses are, each team gets it done in different ways. Boston has arguably the best perimeter defense in the league, headlined by last year's NBA All-Defensive first-team selection Jrue Holiday and second-teamer Derrick White. In Cleveland, the backcourt defense is below average, but a towering frontcourt erases many of the...