Posts Tagged ‘hall of fame’
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008
Irvin finally made that walk last summer when we became a member of the 2007 Hall of Fame class. On Friday, it was the Cowboys’ turn as 18 rookies made the trip to Canton for a quick road trip. But more than deliver the idea, Irvin accompanied the Cowboys on the trip as well, serving [...]
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Saturday, June 21st, 2008
Was loved as a Hall of Fame running back, a Hertz spokesman, an actor, and a man with a million dollar smile. Though a jury failed to convict him, the throngs of guilt still surround him and his name has become synonymous with the word murderer. Some people believe he was acquitted because of his [...]
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Monday, June 2nd, 2008
“Our biggest hurdle is people understanding that we exist and letting them know where we are,” said museum director Rand Jerris. “People say ‘Cooperstown’ and everybody knows it’s the baseball Hall of Fame. We want people to know where Far Hills is and what the USGA is about.” “People relate better to people, and there [...]
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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
I can only assume people all over America were thinking, “Duran Duran is in the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame?” For his second song, Cook picked The Who’s “Baba O’Riley” which most people call Teenage Wasteland. I thought he was going to end the song by saying, “Let’s hear it for the bride.” Perhaps [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Norman Schwarzkopf were among the many honorees on hand for the ceremony at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center in Newark. The hall is one of many endeavors aimed at improving the reputation of the oft-maligned Garden State, which Springsteen referred to in his acceptance speech. “Rise up, my fellow New Jerseyans. We are all [...]
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
And I hear the European Tour event also ended in a playoff and Ignacio Garrido just coming up a bit short. Peter Lawrie won that one. Hall-of-Fame golfer Juli Inkster will miss next months McDonalds LPGA Championship, ending a streak of competing in 56 consecutive majors. The reason? Inksters youngest daughter, Cori, is graduating from [...]
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
If you are a boxing maniac then probably you must be aware about the upcoming Oscar De La Hoya and Floyd Mayweather fight scheduled this year. It is De La Hoyas first non-pay per view fight since March, 2001. As his career winds down De La Hoya, a savy hall of fame promoter as well [...]
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Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Dombrowski is among the 15 former players and coaches who will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as the Class of 2008. Dombrowski was a unanimous All-America selection in 1985 - the first-ever unanimous All-American in UVa. Dombrowski was the sixth overall selection in the 1986 NFL Draft and played 11 seasons [...]
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Sunday, April 27th, 2008
Long becomes the sixth son of a Pro Football Hall of Fame player/coach to be drafted into the league. Howie Long, a defensive tackle, was drafted out of Villanova by the Oakland Raiders in the second round (No. THERE WERE eight offensive tackles taken in the first round a record for the position in [...]
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Saturday, April 19th, 2008
T Ahmad run one play for the Phoenix Suns It was a segment on his old. You played with your friends and fantasized that you were Jim Brown or Jim Kelly or Ahmad Rashad. Campus Salute for College Football Hall of Fame inductee Ahmad Rashad was held last week in Eugene during Oregon. David Hadley [...]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
A little bit of a surprise, I suppose, but only because McNair has not been the subject of non-stop Hamlet-like will he or wont he debate for years like Brett Favre has been. The guy is 35, has loads of injuries, and is coming off his worst year, so this is a good time. I [...]
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Thursday, April 17th, 2008
Wally was born October 22, 1964 to William D and Ann Moulton Kleine. He was raised in Midland and graduated from Midland High School in 1982. He was an outstanding football player at Midland High and was selected to the All State team in 1981. That year he was the 48thplayer taken in the draft. [...]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
The New York Giants in the Hall of Fame Game was on a Monday night in 2002. The Monday night contest will be the first in the city of Houston since November 21, 1994 when the Houston Oilers played the New York Giants. Houston will make its first appearance in Lucas Oil Stadium, the new [...]
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
“Its a bit like sticking your hand blindly into the candy jar and coming up with trick after trick when you keep hoping for a treat,” he writes. “Invariably expectations for a new Madonna album are always high. In Madonnas now 25-year, Hall of Fame-awarded, recording career, the album that “Hard Candy” most resembles in [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
To be elected, a Finalist needs 18 of 24 votes from the Honors Committee for election into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The Class of 2008 will be enshrined during festivities in Springfield, MA September 4-6, 2008. Ticket packages to the 2008 Enshrinement Gala and all Enshrinement Weekend Events are on-sale now and [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
However, the short sighted insanity of these people is astounding. There is no justification for such a shameless omission. Officially . This is not exactly “news” or “surprising” or even the slightest bit informative. We’ve known Hakeem was a Hall of Fame basketball player since 1994. Because Olajuwon … Patrick Ewing, the team’s career scoring… [...]
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Monday, April 7th, 2008
Vitale and seven others, most notably Patrick Ewing, Hakeem Olajuwon and coach Pat Riley. The ceremony will be inSpringfield, Mass., home of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Thisbegs the question…should Dicky V get in? He was not a greatplayer, really just a mediocre college coach and the only thing to his credit is [...]
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