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Memphis Athletics Sets up Relief Fund for Six Tiger Student-Athletes

MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Over the summer, the apartment of two University of Memphis basketball players caught fire in the middle of the night, and the pair were fortunate to escape unharmed.

However, everything in the apartment was destroyed, while the two apartments below - which was housing four football players - sustained substantial water damage.

All three of the apartments were destroyed, and all six athletes - Trahson Burrell and Markel Crawford of the men's basketball team, and Taylor Fallin, Tevin Jones, Ryan Mack, and Greg McKillion, had to vacate.