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Camp Good Grief 5k

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Memorial Park Funeral Home & Cemetery, in partnership with Pugh’s Flowers & Pugh’s Earthworks, is proud to sponsor a 5k Run/Walk benefiting Camp Good Grief – the Mid-South’s first children’s bereavement camp – on  Sunday, Oct.

Grizzlies celebrating tenth season with block parties

The Grizzlies are going to be prowling the Mid-South in September, celebrating a decade of playing basketball in the Bluff City. Here are the details from the Grizz:

The Memphis Grizzlies are inviting fans to get together for the Tenth Season Round Town Tour.

The Tenth Season Round Town Tour will take place throughout Memphis during the entire month of September at Block Parties and festivals to get Grizz Nation excited about the upcoming 2010-11 season, presented by Pepsi.

Grizzlies fans of all ages are invited to join Grizzlies players, coaches, executives, Grizz and the Grizz Girls tip-off the start of the season in a festive setting at Block Parties that will be held at a variety of Memphis locations.

Baseball championships scheduled for the weekend

 

 

Get ready for a big week of baseball!  Sixteen teams from across the country will meet in Memphis August 26-29 to determine who will be named “The Best of the Best”.   The New Era National Youth Baseball Championships return to Gameday Baseball’s First Tennessee Fields.

The tournament is sponsored by the Major Youth Baseball Alliance, LLC, comprised of eight sports sanctioning organizations and representatives from Major League Baseball.

The New Era National Youth Baseball Championships will feature the season’s top 10-and-under and 12-and-under teams from all eight MYBA organizations: American Amateur Baseball Congress (AABC), Amateur Athletic Union of the United States (AAU), Babe Ruth Baseball, Dixie Youth Baseball, National Amateur Baseball Federation (NABF), PONY Baseball, Super Series Baseball of America, and United States Specialty Sports Association (USSSA). The MYBA has a combined total of over 8 million participants.

Send us your football scores, pictures, and video

High school football season is getting into full swing across the Mid-South, and Action News 5 covers high school football each Friday night during our 10 p.m. newscast.

However, we can't be at every game, and that's where you come in.  Call your team's score into our newsroom at 901-726-0416, or email scores@wmctv.com.

We'd also like pictures or video highlights from your game.  You can email those to my5@wmctv.com, or log on to WMCTV.com's My 5 to upload them directly. Or follow us on Twitter, @wmctvsports and send us your scores with the hashtag #midsouthpreps.

If your video gets used as our "Play of the Week," you'll win an Action News 5 shirt.

'The Dream Team' Tackles Landscape

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The Dream Team Tackles Landscape Issues
Memphis Botanic Garden
Saturday, October 2, 2010
9 a.m. – 12 noon

Have a landscape problem you can't manage? A drainage problem? A shady area where nothing will grow? A big eyesore of a utility box? Don’t worry, because the ‘Dream Team’ is coming to the rescue on Saturday, October 2nd with a very affordable seminar. The cost is $3 for Memphis Botanic Garden members and $5 for non-members.

All you need to do is submit a photo and description of your landscape dilemma and a panel of six experts could solve your problem at the seminar.

Mid-South Hunting & Fishing Extravaganza

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EXTRAVAGANZA TO FEATURE 16 HOURS OF SEMINARS

If it’s seminars you want. We’ve got them.

How about 16 hours of seminars? And they’re all free as part of your admission to the annual Mid-South Hunting & Fishing Extravaganza Aug. 13-15 at Agricenter International in East Memphis.

Produced by Memphis-based Expo South, sponsored by the Avery Super Store and Barton Powersports and presented by KIX 106 and 98.1 The Max, the 2010 MSHFE’s list of seminar speakers will cover a variety of subjects ranging from predator hunting to fall crappie fishing to the basics of fly fishing to waterfowl hunting to archery from A to Z.

And, like we said, all the seminars are included in the price of admission, which is $7 for adults and $5 for youth with a discount coupon available via Expo South’s web site at www.exposouth.com.

Memphis Tigers announce exhibtion trip to Bahamas

MEMPHIS, TN (WMC-TV) - The Memphis Tigers basketball team announced plans for a foreighn exhibition tour of the Bahamas from August 14 to 18.  This allows the Tigers to begin a 10-day practice schedule August 2.

“Per NCAA rules, basketball programs are allowed to take a foreign trip once every four years, and my staff and I feel this is a great opportunity for this team,” said head coach Josh Pastner. “We have such a young squad, and with the 10 extra practice days the NCAA allows for the trip, we hope the team grows and bonds together for the upcoming season."