Sports of Memphis, Tennessee
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Memphis, Tennessee is home to several professional sports teams.
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[edit] Basketball
The Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association is the only one of the "big four" major sports leagues in the city. The team plays at the FedExForum downtown.
[edit] Baseball
Several minor league teams also call Memphis home, including the Memphis Redbirds of the Pacific Coast League, a Triple A baseball farm team for the St. Louis Cardinals. The Redbirds play at AutoZone Park, a state-of-the-art baseball-only venue downtown.
[edit] Ice Hockey
The Mississippi RiverKings are a professional hockey team of the Central Hockey League. The RiverKings play at the DeSoto Civic Center in nearby DeSoto County, Mississippi.
[edit] Football
The Memphis Panthers are a football team that play in the North American Football League. The Panthers play at Halle Stadium.
[edit] Rugby
Memphis is also home to the Memphis Blues, a Rugby Union team, which plays at Tobey Field in Midtown, Memphis.
[edit] Wrestling
Memphis also has a fertile history when it comes to pro wrestling. The sport's greatest name to come out of the city is Jerry "The King" Lawler. Other greats who started out in Memphis include Hulk Hogan, The Undertaker, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, Mick Foley, "Macho Man" Randy Savage", and Ric Flair. Memphis has two pro-wrestling organizations, "Power-Pro Wrestling" which is filmed in the Cook Convention Center in downtown Memphis, and Memphis Wrestling which is filmed in the Desoto Civic Center in Desoto County.
[edit] Motorsports
Memphis is also home to Memphis Motorsports Park, just north of the city on the outskirts of Memphis and Millington, TN. The venue has a 3/4-mile (1207 m) paved oval track that annually hosts 2 NASCAR-sanctioned events, a Busch-series race (the Sam's Town 250) and a Craftsman Truck series race (the O'Reilly 200). It also has a 1/4-mile (402 m) drag strip that annually hosts the NHRA POWERade O'Reilly Mid-South Nationals, as well as locally-sanctioned events that run from February to November.
[edit] Golf
Golf is a very popular form of recreation in Memphis, which has eight municipal courses.[1] There are over 30 public and private golf courses in the Memphis Metropolitan Area.[2] Memphis is home to the annual Stanford St. Jude Championship, a regular part of the PGA TOUR.
[edit] Tennis
Memphis is home to the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships and the Cellular South Cup. The Regions Morgan Keegan Championships is an ATP event, and the Cellular South Cup is a WTA event. The senior event, the Stanford Championships started in Memphis, but it has since relocated to Dallas, Texas.
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