Not in Hall of Fame News

Regular visitors to Notinhalloffame.com are aware that we are gradually compiling the top 50 lists for every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL, and MLB. Once that is done, we will examine how each team honors its past players, coaches, and executives. As such, it is important to us that the San Francisco 49ers have announced that former Tight End Brent Jones will become the 33rd member of their franchise Hall of Fame. Jones played 143 Games for the Niners (1987-97), where he recorded 417 Receptions for 5,195 Yards and 33 Touchdowns and went to four consecutive Pro Bowls…

It is with great pleasure that we have brought back the Notinhalloffame MLB Regular Cup, and let us explain how this works: For every regular-season game, we anointed the best five players with descending points, 5-4-3-2-1.  We know the following: The top players for the MLB NIHOF Cup are not always the best in the league, as injuries keep players out of games, and a premium on staying healthy can help pile up points. It also does not hurt to be a top player on an average or mediocre team, as they can amass Cup points more easily than elite…

For our website, this news is as big as it gets. In a shocking announcement, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred removed Pete Rose, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, and the rest of the banned 1919 Chicago White Sox players from the permanently ineligible list.  This would presumably mean that Rose and Jackson could find their way into Cooperstown one day. First, let’s recall how we arrived at this point. In 1921, Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis banned Chick Gandil, Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsh, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver, and Lefty Williams for their alleged participation in throwing the 1919 World…

We continue to chip away at our revised Notinhalloffame.com Hockey list for the 2025 vote and have updated 226-250.  The entire list (albeit under construction) is here, but for your reference, here are the ranked players for Hockey Hall of Fame consideration from 226 to 250. 226. Mike Ramsay227. Murray Oliver228. Daniel Briere229. Rob Ramage230. Tomas Kaberle231. Ivan Boldirev232. Tom Anderson233. Tomas Vokoun234. Jason Arnott235. Mike Ridley236. Joel Otto237. Ab McDonald238. Petr Svoboda239. Glenn Murray240. Mikko Koivu241. Barry Pederson242. Robbie Ftorek243. Ulf Nilsson244. Jean-Sebastian Giguere245. Bobby Holik246. Blaine Stoughton247. Dave Kerr248. Wilf Paiement249. Don Beaupre250. Jim Thomson  Look for more updates…

Professional wrestling lost one of the great innovators as we learned that Terry Brunk, professionally known as Sabu, passed away at 60. The nephew of wrestling legend, The Sheik, Sabu was trained by his uncle and debuted in 1985.  Sabu gained national prominence in the early 1990s as one of the main stars of ECW, and over the second half of the decade, he would main event multiple shows for the Philadelphia-based promotion. Sabu won all three major titles in ECW (World Heavyweight, World Television, and World Tag Team), and his aerial style combined with uncontrollable barbarism made him legendary…