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07/07/11 Think you're good at math? Dr. Cecil Rousseau, a Memphis State University mathematics professor, has been tempting six teenage math wizards with that sort of question daily in training sessions at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Md.
06/22/11 Memphian Kellye Michelle Cash was crowned Miss Tennessee last night after judges picked her over nine other finalists, including the woman she lost to in this year's Miss Memphis State University pageant.
05/01/11 David Sullivan first saw her in college. She was the Golden Girl, the featured twirler dressed in gold who led the marching band at Memphis State University football games in the 1950s. He was struck with Diane Smith, the petite woman with blue-green eyes and radiant personality.
04/18/11 HUNTSVILLE, Alabama -- As Mark Mincher, the long-time baseball coach at Huntsville High and a former player at Memphis State, goes into the Huntsville-Madison County Athletic Hall of Fame tonight, his father Don is understandably beaming.
04/04/11 Larry Finch was the embodiment of all the positive hope and spirit that allowed Memphis to heal from the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. More important, he was the impetus and cause for the healing process, as the leader of the 1972-73 Memphis State basketball team that went to the NCAA Finals in 1973. In a sense Memphis could never fully heal from the deep wound that Kings death brought to the ...
03/22/11 Plans to cut federal funds could cost Memphis State University several hundred thousand dollars this year and the University of Tennessee-Memphis about $360,000 beginning next year, officials here said yesterday.
02/22/11 As good a basketball player as Forest Arnold was at Memphis State in the mid-1950s, it was the former All-American's deep spiritual side that Ken Caldwell remembers most about his teammate. Arnold, one of eight former Tigers to have had his jersey retired, died Saturday of natural causes in Springfield, Mo. He was 77.
01/20/11 She was in many ways the leader of the Memphis State Eight, bold and assertive, speaking up when others were afraid.
11/10/10 Memphis State University sports broadcasting icon Jack Eaton was among the list of 11 inductees to the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame announced on Tuesday.
10/30/10 In the 1970s, John Kilzer was a shooting guard for Memphis State who became known for draining more tequila shots than jump shots.
10/27/10 Denise Pratt, candidate for the Harris County 311th Family District Court in the Nov. 2 General Election, won the March primary against four candidates without a run-off. After graduating from Baytown Lee High School, she received her undergraduate degree from The University of Texas-Austin, and her law degree from Memphis State School of Law in Tennessee.
10/22/10 Memphis and Shelby County Mayors Dick Hackett and Bill Morris return from a trade journey in the Orient this week to a barrage of down-home arguments about where Memphis State University ought to play its home basketball games.
10/18/10 The last time the Florida Gators lost three straight regular-season games was October 1988, when they fell to Memphis State, Vanderbilt and Auburn. How long ago was that? Here are some other things that happened in 1988.
10/17/10 The last time the Florida Gators lost three straight regular-season games was October 1988, when they fell to Memphis State, Vanderbilt and Auburn. How long ago was that? Here are some other things that happened in 1988.
10/15/10 25 years ago: Basketball bounces onto the national collegiate scene today. Mid-South area coaches are eager, particularly in the Southeastern Conference where another donnybrook campaign is expected, and at Memphis State where postseason expectations are a natural.
09/22/10 William Ellis "Will" Renfro, a former DeSoto County supervisor who was also one of the first Memphis State players to be drafted into the NFL, has died.
06/20/10 25 years ago: Sports Illustrated yesterday reported that Memphis State University booster William B. Tanner paid as much as $1,500 a month to Tiger basketball players.
05/01/10 Maxine Smith , who was turned away from the old Memphis State University because of her race in 1957, will walk across the stage to pick up a diploma from the school she credits with turning her into one of the South's best-known civil rights leaders.
04/02/10 FILE - This March 26, 1973, file photo shows UCLA center Bill Walton shooting for two of his record 44 points against Memphis State in the final game of the NCAA basketball tournament in St. Louis, Mo. The 57-year-old Walton said that his former coach _ at the age of 99 _ was aware of UConn's streak.
03/25/10 Memphis State isn't exactly a stranger to Villanova, the team the Tigers will meet in the NCAA's national basketball semifinals Saturday in Lexington, Ky.
03/20/10 NCAA runnerup. Fred Schaus 1977 -- lost to North Carolina 69-66. Lee Rose Final Four. Gene Keady 1983 -- beat Robert Morris 55-53; lost to Arkansas 78-68. 1984 -- lost to Memphis State 66-48. 1985 -- lost to Auburn 59-58. 1986 -- lost to LSU 94-87, 2OT. 1987 -- beat Northeastern 104-95; lost to Florida 85-66. 1988 -- beat Fairleigh Dickinson 94-79; beat Memphis State 100-73; lost to Kansas State ... | 
