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Yes, we know that this is taking a while! As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out, and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post-2023 revision of our top 50 Tampa Bay Rays. As for all of our top 50 players in baseball, we look at the following: 1.  Advanced Statistics. 2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in…
This March, we have been working diligently on adding to our futures section in the big four sports.  We have our first update to share, with the addition of the 2026 Basketball Futures. All of the names feature retired players who will first be Hall of Fame eligible for the Class of 2026.  You can now vote and/or comment as to whether you believe these names are (or are not) Hall of Fame worthy. The new names are: Andre Iguodala:  Iguodala was a four-time NBA Champion with the Golden State Warriors and was a Finals MVP.  He was also an…
1957 Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project Class. Here we are!  Again!! If you have been following our Pro Football Hall of Fame Revisited Project, you know that we have asked the rhetorical question: What if the PFHOF began in January 1946? After soliciting and obtaining a passionate group of football fans and historians, we sent out a ballot for a Preliminary Vote, in which we asked each voter to give us 25 names as their semi-finalists and 5 in the Senior Pool. Following that, we asked the group to vote for their 15 Finalists in the Modern Era…
There are a lot of Quarterbacks and Offensive Coordinators who are breathing easier today. Aaron Donald, the most terrorizing Defensive Player in the last ten years, has announced his retirement after ten years in the NFL, all with the St. Louis/Los Angeles Rams.  Drafted 13th Overall in 2014 from Pittsburgh, Donald accomplished everything a player could.  Named to the Pro Bowl in all ten of his campaigns, Donald was a First Team All-Pro in seven of them and won three Defensive Player of the Year Awards.  Donald also won the Defensive Rookie of the Year and achieved the ultimate goal:…
Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB.  Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, it is important to us that the Kansas City Royals will induct Bo Jackson into their franchise Hall of Fame. The ceremony will take place on June 29. The 1985 Heisman Trophy winner from Auburn was a two-sport athlete, playing both baseball and football. With the Royals, Jackson was an All-Star in 1989 and…
We had heard that Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was playing a part in the 2024 WWE Hall of Fame Class.  With the names that had been announced thus far (Paul Heyman, Bull Nakano, The U.S. Express and Thunderbolt Patterson, we had not seen any direct evidence to think that was the case.  This ends today with the announcement that his grandmother, Lia Maivia, will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. The wife of WWE Hall of Famer Peter Maivia, Lia took over the Polynesian Pro Wrestling promotion following Peter’s death in 1982.  This made her one of the…
It was rumoured that a fifth name was being considered for the WWE Hall of Fame, and this morning it was announced that it is Thunderbolt Patterson. Born Claude Patterson in Iowa, he made his wrestling debut in 1964 and would work throughout various American promotions and won significant titles in the 1970s, including the Florida Heavyweight Title by defeating Bruiser Brody and the United States Title, with a shock win over the legendary Sheik.  He also was Ole Anderson’s tag team partner in 1984, where they held the National Tag Team Titles. Patterson was not the smoothest in-ring worker,…
It is very much a new era for the WWE Hall of Fame.  In the past, it was described that former owner and chairman Vince McMahon had made the calls as to who would be in the Hall.  With him out of the picture, Jean “Triple H” Levesque” has taken over that duty, and with alleged input from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, we are seeing a cohesive list of names emerge. This past week, Paul Heyman, Bull Nakano and the U.S. Express (Barry Windham and Mike Rotundo) were named to the Hall, and now we have a huge name, albeit…
Last night at UFC 299, the UFC announced that Joanna Jendrzejczyk will enter their Hall of Fame in the Modern Wing as part of the 2024 Class. The induction will take this June as part of International Fight Week in Las Vegas. From Poland, Jendrzejczyk first studied Muay Thai and Kickboxing and won multiple tournaments and titles in both sports.  She made her Mixed Martial Arts Debut in 2012, and two years later, she joined the UFC.  Less than a year after her debut in the UFC, she easily beat Carla Esparza for the Strawweight Championship at UFC 185.  Jendrzejczyk…
It is a tough week to be a Philadelphia Eagles fan.  Days after star Center Jason Kelce retired from the NFL, Defensive Tackle Fletcher Cox announced his retirement from the game of football. Like Kelce, Cox played his entire 12-year career with the Eagles, the team that drafted him 12th Overall from Mississippi State in 2012. As the Eagles hoped, Cox made an immediate impact as a starting Defensive Tackle, earning All-Rookie honors.  Comfortable against the rush and pass, Cox began a six-year run of consecutive Pro Bowls in 2015 and was also a First Team All-Pro in 2018.  Cox…