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Two new entries to the Hockey Hall of Fame

Two new entries to the Hockey Hall of Fame
The first two official inductees for the Hockey Hall of Fame Class of 2016 has been announced as New York Rangers’ play-by-play announcer, Sam Rosen, and Chicago Tribune columnist, Bob Verdi will be enshrined this coming November.

Rosen will be receiving the Foster Hewitt Award, which is awarded annually for outstanding contributions as a broadcaster.

Rosen has been the lead announcer for the Rangers since 1984 and famously called the 1994 Stanley Cup win.

Bob Verdi will be given the Elmer Ferguson Memorial Award for excellence in hockey journalism as per the Professional Hockey Writer’s Association.

We here at Notinhalloffame.com would like to congratulate these two inductees and are eagerly awaiting the full batch of players and contributors for this year’s class.

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Steve Miller wants to tear down the RRHOF

Steve Miller wants to tear down the RRHOF
“I don’t want to be a belong to any club that will accept me as a member.”

Ok, that Groucho Marx quote isn’t exactly accurate, but Steve Miller still isn’t happy about being in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

As we discussed previously, Miller was quite vocal about his distaste for the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony, of which he was finally inducted after a long wait.  Miller infamously railed on the Hall at the post ceremony press conference but on the Howard Stern Show, he had a lot more to say:

“It's gonna get better. I'm gonna get these guys. They're gonna be sorry that they treated all these people this way…I'm planning to keep it in the news. I'm planning to investigate them. I've already got all of their public documents. I want to see where they're spending the money. I wanna see who's being paid. I wanna check it all out ... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's actually going to go to Cleveland. The Museum's actually gonna mean something. The funding they raise is actually gonna be used for music education before I'm done."

Miller trashed the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame committee, calling them “fucked-up” and “inbred”.

Is this the rambling of a cranky old man or is Miller on to something with the Rock and Roll Hall?

Either way, it will always be interesting in Cleveland.

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300. Rockin' Robin

300. Rockin' Robin
A former WWF Women’s Champion, Rockin’ Robin was the face of the women’s division for a time in the then named World Wrestling Federation.  While that is the good news, the fact is that as the face of the champion, the title was abandoned and the women’s division went into hibernation for over a decade.  That fact does the half-sister of Jake “The Snake” Roberts no favors.
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212. Lillian Garcia

212. Lillian Garcia
One of the longest tenured employees in the history of the WWE, the seemingly ageless Lillian Garcia has ring announced more matches than anyone else with the exception of WWE Hall of Famer, Howard Finkel.  Garcia used her singing skills to sing the National Anthem and America the Beautiful, most notably the latter at two Wrestlemanias.
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231. Bill Apter

231. Bill Apter
For decades, most wrestling fans got their information from the “Apter Mags”, namely the publications from Bill Apter.  While those magazines maintained “kayfabe”, they were a major part of the life of wrestling fans and the WWE does use many of the pictures that Apter himself took today.  While he never worked for the WWE, this could be a real dark horse candidate.
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299. Earl McCready

299. Earl McCready
The Canadian flagbearer in the 1928 Olympics, Earl McCready would go on to be one of the most successful collegiate wrestlers of all time, winning the NCAA Title for the University of Oklahoma three years straight (1928-30).  McCready would become a major star in the professional ranks in Canada and the United Kingdom winning the British Empire Title three times.
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