Not in Hall of Fame News

We are only a few weeks away from the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announcement to complete their Class of 2014, and it looks like there will be might be changes coming to the process in 2016. Currently, the Basketball Hall has five categories where one individual will bypass the voting process and receive automatic induction.  They are the Contributors, ABA, Early African American Pioneer, International and Veterans.  This was instituted in 2010, with the intention of finding those who may have “slipped through the cracks”.  This process helped induct Artis Gilmore, Mel Daniels and Roger Brown; who may not…

We almost missed this one.  Gene Simmons of KISS has been very vocal about his distain for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame; before and after he got in, but there was an excerpt from his recent interview with Radio.com that we thought was worth mentioning, where he slammed some of the Rap and Hip Hop entrants to the Hall.  “A long time ago it was diluted. It’s really back room politics, like Boss Tweed. A few people decide what’s in and what’s not. And the masses just scratch their heads. You’ve got Grandmaster Flash in the Rock and Roll…

Tonight on the tapings of Friday Night Smackdown, it was announced that Carlos Colon will be entering the WWE Hall of Fame.  Colon debuted in professional wrestling in 1966, but citing a need for a solid promotion in his native Puerto Rico, he co-created, the World Wrestling Council, which would become a major promotion. Colon would become the promotion’s champion multiple times, and his decades long feud with Abdullah the Butcher is still legendary on the Caribbean Island.  In 1983, it appeared to the WWC faithful that he won the NWA World Heavyweight Championship from Ric Flair when he defeated…

The Buffalo Sabres began their Hall of Fame in 1980 and have already inducted forty-one men in their Hall.  Honestly, this is a high amount for a franchise that has never won a Stanley Cup (although they have been to two), but the 42nd inductee is someone that hockey fans should have no problem with. That man is Czech born Goaltender, Dominik Hasek, who arrived in Buffalo via a trade from Chicago as the backup for Grant Fuhr in 1992.  Hasek would ascend to the starting position following an injury to Grant early in the 1993-94 season, and he immediately…

In January, the St. Louis Cardinals announced the first class for their club’s Hall of Fame.  It will have a physical structure within Cardinal Nation in Ballpark Village.  The Cards are one of the most decorated franchises in all of sports and have won nineteen National League Pennants and eleven World Series, easily the most of anyone in the Senior Circuit. They have followed the pattern of other Major League franchises that have their own separate Halls of Fame, and since they have well over 100 years to draw from, they have the ability to create one that not only…