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1990 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 we have asked the question: What if the PFHOF had begun 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 each voter selected 25 names as their semi-finalists and five names for the Senior Pool. We then asked the group to vote for their 15 Finalists in the Modern Era and 3 in the Senior…

At UFC 324, Dominick Cruz was selected to the UFC Hall of Fame, which stands as a powerful tribute to one of the greatest bantamweights in mixed martial arts history. Throughout his remarkable career, Cruz combined elite athleticism, unmatched movement, and tactical brilliance to dominate a division and leave a lasting mark on the sport. Cruz first rose to prominence in the World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) organization, where he captured the bantamweight title in 2010 with a dominant victory over Brian Bowles. When the UFC absorbed the WEC later that year, Cruz became the promotion’s first UFC bantamweight champion. He…

Wow (again). A week after it was leaked that longtime New England Patriots Head Coach Bill Belichick was not chosen for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026, the owner of the dynasty, Robert Kraft, will also not be inducted. Kraft, whose purchase of the Patriots saved the franchise from possible relocation, presided over the dynasty that won six Super Bowls, and like Belichick, was a Finalist for the first time, and many (including this writer) thought it likely that both would be inducted this year.   Now, it is neither. With Kraft and Belichick passed over, we…

Wow. According to an ESPN article, Don Van Natta Jr. and Seth Wickersham reported that eight-time Super Bowl Champion Bill Belichick was not selected for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026. Allegedly, Belichick was informed by a Hall representative last Friday that he was not chosen.  The 50 Hall of Fame voters met previously to present cases, debate, and cast a secret ballot, and many (including some of the Hall of Fame selectors) thought that Belichick was a lock. His case was the most complete of any coach’s case this side of Vince Lombardi.  Belichick led the…

We are in December, which we at Notinhalloffame call “Hall of Fame Season,” and one of its premier events is the announcement of the 2026 Baseball Writers of America Ballot.  Announced today is that Carlos Beltran and Andruw Jones have received the necessrry 75% of the vote to enter the hallowed halls of Cooperstown. Let’s take a deep dive into the results: INDUCTED: Carlos Beltran: 84.2 %, enters on his fourth ballot.   Beltran had the resume that should have put him close to the borderline of a first-ballot Baseball Hall of Fame inductee, but his significant role in the…