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Paul Pierce and Chris Bosh headline the list of finalists for the 2021 Hall of Fame class as the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame made the highly-anticipated announcement on Tuesday. Chris Webber has once again been named as a finalist this year, and for his part, the five-time All-Star has recently opened up about […]

The last feather put in a great NBA player’s cap is being inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Paul Pierce and Chris Bosh both have been named as finalists to the 2021 Class. Pierce is best known for his stint with the Celtics and Bosh for his time with the Toronto Raptors […]

The finalists for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame were announced Tuesday, with Paul Pierce and Chris Bosh headlining the group. Bosh and Pierce will be joined by fellow finalists Tim Hardaway, Chris Webber, Michael Cooper, Ben Wallace, and Marques Johnson. Longtime Portland Trail Blazers and Sacramento Kings head coach Rick Adelman leads the […]

The Pro Football Hall of Fame announced recently that it will include Kansas City Chiefs head coach Andy Reid’s now-iconic face shield that he wore throughout much of the 2020 NFL season. The mask will be included in the Hall’s Pro Football Today Gallery. It will be paired with a game-worn hat of Reid’s. New […]

It’s been three years since former NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens was voted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame, but he says that he still doesn’t plan to visit the Hall of Fame and believes that the voting system is still flawed. Despite a 16-year career that saw him become of the greatest players […]

Peyton Manning of the Indianapolis Colts and Denver Broncos has been inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. He will be formally presented as a member of the exclusive club during a ceremony in August. Congratulations to the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2021: Alan Faneca, Tom Flores, Calvin Johnson, John Lynch, […]

Dallas Cowboys legend Drew Pearson has made his desire to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame no secret. On Saturday, the 70-year-old finally got his wish as it was officially announced that Pearson will be part of the 2021 Hall of Fame class. The news was made official by the Pro Football […]

Two-time Super Bowl champion Tom Flores of the Raiders became the first Hispanic head coach to be inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Paul Gutierrez of ESPN confirmed the news: BREAKING: #Raiders Tom Flores has been selected for the @ProFootballHOF — Paul Gutierrez (@PGutierrezESPN) February 7, 2021 Flores guided the Oakland Raiders to […]

Curt Schilling was left out of the Baseball Hall of Fame once again by just a handful of votes, and he isn’t happy about it. Curt Schilling definitely has an argument to make that he should be in the Hall of Fame, but his antics on social media seemed to rub some of the voters […]

Not one candidate will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2021, which marks the first time since 2013 that no MLB player received enough votes. Nominees require 75 percent of the vote from writers across the country in order to be inducted, and none of the eligible players received that in a […]

Fans around the world can’t wait for the moment Los Angeles Lakers legend Kobe Bryant is officially inducted into the Hall of Fame in May, even if it’s going to be bittersweet due to Bryant’s tragic death last January. Kobe’s Hall of Fame class was supposed to be inducted in 2020, but the enshrinement was […]

The NBA has revealed a slew of notable dates for the 2020-21 season. Individual player workouts and Media “Week” will begin on Tuesday, Dec. 1, and will go until next Saturday. Group workouts will start the following day. The preseason, which will mark the first live NBA action outside of the Orlando bubble since March, […]

Former Oakland Raiders head coach Tom Flores has been named as a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2021, the Hall of Fame announced. BREAKING: Former @Raiders Coach Tom Flores has been selected as a finalist for the Class of 2021. #PFHOF21 More: https://t.co/6mdxwqfj8O pic.twitter.com/AeIl1xdd2s — Pro Football Hall of Fame […]

The Pro Football Hall of Fame is changing the way it selects NFL Hall of Famers. NFL coaches will benefit for the next four years. The tweaks will allow coaches to have their own category from now on. Last Friday, the Pro Football Hall of Fame Board of Trustees approved the change in the selection […]

The Pro Football Hall of Fame has announced they will be moving the 2002 enshrinement back to 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the uncertainty that it has place on NFL activities this summer. The Enshrinement Week Powered by Johnson Controls will take place August 5-9 in 2021. As a public health precaution, all […]

The NFL plans on holding the Pro Football Hall of Fame enshrinement ceremony and the Hall of Fame game as scheduled in August. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, large crowds are not expected to be present at either event. Governor DeWine said it's "highly unlikely" that crowds of around 20k would be allowed for […]

The late, great Kobe Bryant will be headlining this year’s class of Hall of Fame inductees. With the enshrinement ceremonies fast approaching, it has been revealed that the family of the Los Angeles Lakers legend, led by his wife, Vanessa, has every intention of playing a significant role in the ceremony. According to Naismith Memorial […]

Chris Webber may not have won a NCAA or NBA title, but Jalen Rose believes his former Michigan (and AAU) teammate belongs in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame—and not just for his distinguished professional career. “Webb shouldn’t spend a second worrying about that — it’s going to happen,” Rose said to The Athletic’s […]

Former five-time All-Star and Sacramento Kings legend Chris Webber hung up his sneakers in 2008. Given the fact that each player is eligible to be enshrined to the Hall of Fame three years after retirement, the 47-year-old has been snubbed for nearly a decade now. For a couple of Webber’s former teammates, they simply cannot […]

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is considering postponing the induction of the Class of 2020 for a later date. This year’s class — which is headlined by NBA greats Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett — was set to be inducted on Aug. 29 in Springfield. According to Gary Washburn of the Boston […]

Four-time NBA All-Star and one-time NBA champion Shawn Marion believes he should be in the Hall of Fame. Marion retired from the NBA after the 2014-15 season. His best years were with the Phoenix Suns when he was the swingman running the floor with Steve Nash. The man known as “The Matrix” captured his lone […]

Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant — along with Kevin Garnett — have been elected to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in one of the most star-studded Hall of Fame classes in NBA history. We know that Duncan and Bryant are two of the greatest players of their era and two of the greatest players […]

The Boston Celtics plan on retiring Kevin Garnett’s No. 5 next season, but Ray Allen hasn’t decided whether he’ll be in attendance for that or for KG’s induction into the Hall of Fame. On Cedric Maxwell’s podcast, Allen discussed his frayed relationship with his ex-teammates and said “it would take Kevin and I to have […]

The 2020 Hall of Fame class is one of the best we have ever seen, as NBA legends Kevin Garnett, Tim Duncan and Kobe Bryant have all been inducted. Garnett spoke on what it means to go into the Hall of Fame with Duncan and Bryant, as well as former WNBA star Tamika Catchings: “To […]

Basketball Hall of Famer and Inside the NBA analyst Charles Barkley made an appearance on ESPN’s Get Up Monday morning, and shared some major praise for some of the newest inductees into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. When host Mike Greenberg asked Chuck about his memories of facing a young Kobe Bryant at […]

After being a finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame for the last four years, former St. Louis Rams wide receiver Isaac Bruce will finally be inducted into Canton this year. Any player that is selected for the Hall of Fame needs to select someone to present themselves at the ceremony in August. Bruce’s […]

Despite almost every other significant sporting event being postponed or canceled, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame has decided to push through with its upcoming annual events. According to NBA insider Brian Mahoney of The Associated Press, the announcement of this year’s batch of inductees in the spring as well as their enshrinement later […]

Everyone is wondering what the NFL plans on doing amid the controversy surrounding the coronavirus and the first football-related event has been postponed. According to Nora Princiotti of the Boston Globe, the Pro Football Hall of Fame postponed its FanFest with the coronavirus scare present. The Pro Football Hall of Fame has postponed its "Hall of […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers have quite a few players that are going to be inducted into the Hall of Fame, but so do the Dallas Cowboys. As a result, it has been reported that the Steelers and Cowboys will be playing in this year’s Hall of Fame game. For the Steelers, both Troy Polamalu and Bill […]

Former Miami Heat star Chris Bosh wasn’t named a 2020 NBA Hall of Fame finalist. The 35-year-old took to Instagram to express his disappointment, but vowed to stay positive: https://www.instagram.com/tv/B8t4ODIJYe-/ In 893 games with the Toronto Raptors and Heat, Chris Bosh averaged 19.2 points, 8.5 rebounds, 2.0 assists and a block while shooting 49.4 percent from the field, […]

The Pittsburgh Steelers had two players named among the 15 modern-era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame and one of them was able to get inducted. With the league announcing the inductees, Troy Polamalu earned a first-ballot Hall of Fame honor, per Adam Schefter. Former Steelers’ safety Troy Polamalu enters the Pro Football […]

The Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2020 has been announced and fans of the Denver Broncos are excited to see the list. According to Mike Klis, Steve Atwater has been inducted into the Hall of Fame. https://twitter.com/MikeKlis/status/1223712355613380608?s=20 Early Saturday morning, the Hall of Fame committee voted on the modern-era finalists. The finalists consisted […]

The modern-era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2020 will be announced on Saturday night and it appears one of the finalists already knows he wasn’t chosen. Ahead of the NFL Honors ceremony, LeRoy Butler of the Green Bay Packers revealed his Hall of Fame fate. Butler actually became a finalist […]

Deion Sanders is known as arguably the greatest cornerback of all time. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011. Despite being enshrined in Canton for nearly a decade, Sanders believes that too many players are getting into the Hall of Fame. “What is a Hall of Famer now? Is it […]

The Super Bowl is less than a week away and the NFL will soon be announcing the modern-era finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Ahead of the long-awaited announcement, Ray Lewis explains why Alan Faneca of the Pittsburgh Steelers belongs in the Hall of Fame. https://twitter.com/steelers/status/1222282704319705088?s=20 Faneca was drafted by the Steelers in […]

If Brett Favre were an NFL Hall of Fame voter, he’d make sure Steve Hutchinson would find himself part of the 2020 class. Hutchinson, a former offensive guard for the Seattle Seahawks, Minnesota Vikings and Tennessee Titans, is a Hall of Fame finalist. 2020 marks his third straight year he’s part of the finalist class. […]

The NFL recently revealed its 2020 Hall of Fame class and while some players have got to relive their dream of making it, others will have to wait another year to get their name called. Among this year’s notable snubs was former Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Drew Pearson. Pearson was understandably upset when he found […]

San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich will be eligible to make the basketball Hall of Fame next season. He will likely be joined by Kobe Bryant, Tim Duncan and Kevin Garnett. According to Gary Washburn of The Boston Globe, Popovich would have already been elected to the Hall of Fame, but he refused consideration. […]

As part of an official statement released on Thursday, the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame announced that three-time NBA champion and Miami Heat icon Dwyane Wade will serve on their Board of Trustees: Basketball Hall of Fame Announces New Board Members. @DwyaneWade and @ScottRochelle_ Named to Board of Trustees. 📰: https://t.co/tA3s8bb3id pic.twitter.com/tc9ajwV9TL — Basketball […]