Not in Hall of Fame News
Alanis Morissette to the Canadian Music HOF
Feb 12, 2015
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Committee Chairman
The Canadian Music Hall of Fame (also known as the Juno Hall of Fame) has announced that the 2015 inductee will be Alanis Morissette. The Ottawa native first became nationally known in the early 1990’s as a dance-pop artist but it was her switch to a hybrid of Rock and Alternative that led to the creation of her smash album, Jagged Little Pill, an effort that generated hits like “You Oughta Know”, “Ironic”, “You Learn” and “Hand In My Pocket”. It sold 33 million copies worldwide, won numerous awards and ushered in a new wave of female stars. While she…
RIP: Ed Sabol
Feb 11, 2015
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Committee Chairman
It is a sad day in the National Football League as the founder of NFL Films and Pro Football Hall of Fame Inductee, Steve Sabol passed away in his home in Scottsdale, Arizona at the age of 98. Sabol, along with his son Steve transformed the way that we watch the National Football League once he won the right to chronicle the game in 1962, and his vision gave us innovations that are still very much in use today. With a multi-camera attack, players with microphones and locker room access, Sabol created what was akin to a Hollywood production. NFL…
Rikishi to the WWE HOF
Feb 10, 2015
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Committee Chairman
It was announced today on Monday Night Raw that a member of the legendary Anoi’a family will be entering this year’s WWE Hall of Fame Class. That man is Rikishi, who had a long run under various personas in the WWE, and is the father of current WWE Tag Team Champions, The Usos, and the uncle of Roman Reigns. Born Solafa Fatu, Rikishi first gained recognition on a national level in a tag team with his cousin, Samu, as the Samoan SWAT Team, a duo that would have success in both World Class and WCW. The then named World Wrestling…
Brett Favre is coming home
Feb 09, 2015
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Committee Chairman
It appeared that this was going to be made official at some point in 2015, but this July 18th, Brett Favre will be inducted into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame and later in the year, his name and number four will be placed on the hallowed wall in Lambeau Field. It has not been announced when they will do the official ceremony at Lambeau, but Favre, on his website is looking forward to returning to the “Frozen Tundra” and a place that he reigned as king for sixteen years. As a member of the Packers, Favre would throw…
Nick Hardwick Retires
Feb 08, 2015
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Committee Chairman
It may not have received the ceremony it deserved outside of San Diego but former Pro Bowl Center, Nick Hardwick has decided to call it a career. The announcement came a couple of days ago, and a look at his career shows that Hardwick played 136 Games under the Quarterback for the San Diego Chargers and started every single one if them. Hardwick, who was a 2006 Pro Bowl Selection was also the winner of the Ed Block Courage Award in 2008. While Hardwick is not really a viable candidate for the Pro Football Hall of Fame, it is conceivable…
Hope for Pete Rose?
Feb 07, 2015
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Committee Chairman
An interesting piece of news came afoot regarding Pete Rose and the Baseball Hall of Fame this week. The new Major League Baseball Commissioner, Rob Manfred, stated that he would be making a decision to potentially reinstate Rose to Baseball and pardon him from gambling on the sport has a lot of ears raised. Rose has been banned for twenty-five years and throughout the Bud Selig era there was no discernable talk that he would be reinstated. There is now a glimmer of hope that the Hit King of Baseball might make it to Cooperstown after all. This news came…
Carlos Delgado headlines Canadian Baseball HOF Class
Feb 05, 2015
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Committee Chairman
Carlos Delgado may not have received the votes necessary to enter the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York, but he did receive a decent consolation prize, as he will be headlining the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Mary’s Ontario. Delgado would play his first twelve seasons with the Toronto Blue Jays where he would make the American League All Star Team twice. In 2003, he would lead the league in Runs Batted In and OPS and would finish second in MVP voting. Accumulatively, Delgado would blast 336 Home Runs with a Slash Line of .282/.392/.556 and…
Baseball List revised: Ken Griffey Jr. to the top
Feb 04, 2015
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Committee Chairman
Much like we sped up our process for revising the Rock and Roll list, we did the same with our Baseball one. Last month, the Baseball Hall of Fame announced that four players would be entering the hallowed halls of Cooperstown. Recapping those players and the rank that they had on our list are: Randy Johnson (Ranked #3) Pedro Martinez (Ranked #5) Craig Biggio (Ranked #11) John Smoltz (Ranked #13) Along with the addition of Ken Griffey Jr., your votes and comments, there is a significant change in the top ten of our Baseball list. As per the last three…
Triple H comments on Chyna and the WWE HOF
Feb 04, 2015
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Committee Chairman
We assume that many of you WWE fans listened to the “Stone Cold” Steve Austin podcast with Triple H, the COO, and likely future head of the WWE. It was a great listen, but rather than review the entire piece, we want to focus on comments that Triple H made regarding Chyna and the Hall of Fame. Although the company is still owned by Vince McMahon, the fingerprints of the man who is professionally known as Jean Levesque has been instrumental in the growth of their feeder system, NXT, and mending fences that brought Bruno Sammartino and The Ultimate Warrior…
Rock List Revised: Deep Purple stays number 1
Feb 03, 2015
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Committee Chairman
We told you we were not going to waste a lot of time revising our Rock and Roll List. In what for us was one of the most anti-climactic Rock and Roll Hall of Fame selection none of our top ten will be making the trip to Cleveland, though there were two of them (Kraftewerk at #2 and the Smiths at #5) were nominated. Combined with the fact that none of the incoming eligible acts made our top forty, the top ten did not change very much. Recapping, the following acts will be officially inducted into the Rock and Roll…