Chapter Four: Penny Hardaway has his greatest triumph – then frets about being a laughingstock

By , Daily Memphian Updated: November 29, 2018 1:31 PM CT | Published: November 25, 2018 9:56 PM CT
<strong>Memphis coach Penny Hardaway reacts to a play during the first half of Memphis Tigers' game against the Yale Bulldogs on Saturday, Nov. 17,</strong> <strong>at FedEx Forum.</strong> (Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to the Daily Memphian)

Memphis coach Penny Hardaway reacts to a play during the first half of Memphis Tigers' game against the Yale Bulldogs on Saturday, Nov. 17, at FedEx Forum. (Karen Pulfer Focht/Special to the Daily Memphian)

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Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.

ORLANDO – Just a few days earlier, Penny Hardaway had been sitting along the baseline at the Landers Center, watching three gifted recruits light up the court.

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