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Guest Columnists
By Candace Echols, Special to The Daily Memphian
Published: May 25, 2025 4:00 AM CT
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Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five.
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Ed. note: This is the third and final installment of our Mother’s Day series for which we profiled three mothers of PGA Tour pros. Previous installments: Chris Spieth, Jordan’s mother|Karuna Theegala, Sahith’s mother***Matt Fitzpatrick, the 2022 U.S. Open winner, has on three occasions had his mother, Sue, as his pro-am partner in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship in Scotland. Most pros in the Dunhill are paired with celebrities or titans of business.
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Memphis Grizzlies
By Candace Echols, Special to The Daily Memphian
Updated: May 11, 2025 4:00 AM CT | Published: May 11, 2025 4:00 AM CT
Jay Huff (front) and his sister Katrina pose for a photo as chldren. (Courtesy Katrina Huff)
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Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five.
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Sahith Theegala is hard to miss at PGA Tour events, and not just because he’s 6-foot-3. Often, he’ll have a lively gallery in tow: his parents; girlfriend; family; friends; other assorted fans and admirers drawn to him by his starring role in Netflix’s “Full Swing” series.
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flipboard.com | Candace Echols
Has any team overcome a 3-0 deficit in the NBA Playoffs? Inside pivotal Game 7s with historic comebacks on the linePerhaps the hardest thing in sports is for a team to come back from a 3-0 deficit in a playoff series. Once the postseason comes around, it is …
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4 weeks ago | 
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By Candace Echols, Special to The Daily Memphian
Updated: May 10, 2025 4:00 AM CT | Published: May 10, 2025 4:00 AM CT
Donna Spencer holds her son and future Memphis Grizzlies player Cam Spencer. (Courtesy Donna Spencer)
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Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five.
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4 weeks ago | 
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Much ink has been spilled on the role many fathers have played in helping to raise their PGA Tour professional sons. But what of the players’ mothers? What wisdom does a mother offer her son on the eve of a pivotal tournament? What small truths did she feed him over breakfast and afternoon snacks for the nearly two decades he spent in her care? At the heart of it, what is it really like to be a mother of a PGA Tour pro? We asked three of them.
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1 month ago | 
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Opinion
By Candace Echols, Special to The Daily Memphian
Updated: May 09, 2025 4:00 AM CT | Published: May 09, 2025 4:00 AM CT
“He doesn’t care about the glitz and glam of all of this stuff,” Laketia Wells (right) said about her son Jaylen Wells (left as a baby and center). “He just lives.” (Courtesy Laketia Wells)
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Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five.
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1 month ago | 
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Guest Columnists
By Candace Echols, Special to The Daily Memphian
Published: May 04, 2025 11:49 AM CT
Special to The Daily Memphian
Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book “Josephine and the Quarantine.”
“Life comes at us utterly unannounced. No spoiler alerts. No accurate forecasts. No fortune tellers.
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1 month ago | 
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Guest Columnists
By Candace Echols, Special to The Daily Memphian
Updated: April 20, 2025 4:00 AM CT | Published: April 20, 2025 4:00 AM CT
Every spring, daffodils push up through the dirt. (Michaela Wenzler/Pixabay)
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Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five.
