Gary Parrish is an award-winning sports columnist at CBSSports.com and the host of "The Gary Parrish Show with Geoff Calkins" on 92.9 FM ESPN in Memphis.[1] Parrish first gained national prominence for uncovering one of the biggest recruiting scandals in NCAA history—that University of Alabama booster Logan Young paid Trezevant High School football coach Lynn Lang $200,000 to steer All-American prospect Albert Means to the Crimson Tide football team.[2] Parrish now mostly writes about college basketball. He is a Senior Writer at CBSSports.com and a frequent contributor on the CBS Sports Network. His radio show is the top-rated sports talk show in Memphis. Readers of the Memphis Flyer voted it the best sports talk show in Memphis in 2010.
Parrish was raised in Horn Lake, Mississippi -- where he holds a key to the city.
He previously worked at The Commercial Appeal newspaper in Memphis.