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The Basketball Hall of Fame has reduced its eligibility wait time to four years, among other changes. Shaq, Allen Iverson, and Yao Ming will now be eligible to be elected as part of the class of 2016. [AP]...

The 2016 Baseball Hall of Fame ballot is out. Newcomers include: Ken Griffey Jr., Trevor Hoffman, Billy Wagner, Jim Edmonds, Mike Lowell, Brad Ausmus, Luis Castillo, and David Eckstein. This is the final year on the ballot for Mark McGwire and Alan Trammell....

Protesters Abseiling From The Panthers' Stadium Hang Anti-Dominion Banner [UPDATE]

We’ve seen it all. Here are two protesters from We Are Cove Point rappelling from the Panthers’ stadium to hang a banner reading “BOA Dump Dominion.” And unlike most Idiots On The Field, ESPN actually aired them!...

The Baseball Hall Of Fame Is A Grim, Cruel, Terrible Place

In 1999, I was teaching advanced dialectical history at a small northeastern liberal arts college whose name I will not mention here. The season of that year that stands out the most in my own memory is Autumn. The Autumn of 1999. I remember, that Autumn, getting home from the last class of the day,...

What Does It Take To Get Photographers Into Sports Halls Of Fame?

The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is the most idiosyncratic of the major sports halls of fame, in part because its mission is to celebrate the game of basketball in its many incarnations, as opposed to just the NBA. That independent spirit is readily apparent this weekend, when Springfie...

Rob Manfred Kicks Shoeless Joe Jackson Back Into The Grave

The appointment of a new MLB commissioner is always a good time for certain special interest groups—spitball enthusiasts, Montreal baseball fans, Pete Rose truthers—to begin seeking favors. “Maybe,” they think, “the new commissioner will be more reasonable than the last!” This is presumably why the ...

Former Steelers Kicker Jeff Reed Ejected From Hall Of Fame Game [Update]

Jeff Reed no longer plays in the NFL, but the former Steelers kicker showed up in the crowd at Sunday’s Hall of Fame Game in Canton. He wasn’t there the whole time, however. According to other fans at the game, Reed was escorted from his seat for allegedly fighting with another fan. ...

Watch Sydney Seau's Tribute To Her Father At His Hall Of Fame Induction

Junior Seau told his daughter Sydney before his death that he wanted her to speak on his behalf if he ever made it into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Hall wasn’t having any of that, though they eventually relented and gave the 21-year-old a few minutes to talk about her dad. She notably doesn’t...

Hall Of Fame To Allow Junior Seau's Daughter To Speak At Induction

According to Fox Sports, the Pro Football Hall of Fame has decided not to be a complete dick and will allow Junior Seau’s daughter, Sydney Seau, to speak via an on-stage interview at next Saturday’s induction ceremony....

Pedro Martínez Talks Dominican Pride In Stirring Hall Of Fame Speech

Pedro Martínez played up his heritage and spoke directly to his fellow Dominicans today at his Hall of Fame induction, dedicating the honor to his home country and declaring the award a “sign of hope, faith, determination, strength, courage, and dignity.”...

Junior Seau's Family Banned From Speaking At His Hall Of Fame Induction

Junior Seau’s induction into the Pro Football Hall of Fame next month will feature a video celebrating his on-field accomplishments, but no mention of his football-caused brain injuries or his self-inflicted fatal gunshot wound in 2012. It also will not feature any words from his family members....

Actual Crack Smoker Rob Ford Elected To Hockey Hall Of Fame Board

Toronto’s former crack-smokin’, councilwoman-knockin’ mayor Rob Ford has been appointed to the Hockey Hall of Fame’s board of directors, according to the Canadian Press. ...

Daniel Bryan WWE HOF Speech: Wrestling's Fake, But Here's A Real Story

Daniel Bryan's WWE Hall of Fame induction speech for child cancer victim Connor "The Crusher" Michalek not only brought the pro wrestling superstar to tears but also—to the shock of some viewers—tore down the façade of wrestling storylines multiple times, admitting that "everything I've done...is ...

The just-announced finalists for the Basketball Hall of Fame include Dikembe Mutumbo, Tim Hardaway, Spencer Haywood, Kevin Johnson, Lisa Leslie, John Calipari, and Dick Bavetta. ...

Peter King Defends Hall Of Fame’s Right To Honor Alleged Serial Rapist

The NFL season is over, which means it's probably a good time for big-time NFL writers to go home and take a nap. And it seems no certified water-carrier needs a break more than SI's Peter King, who took to Twitter last night to defend the Hall of Fame candidacy of … alleged serial rapist Darren Sh...

A largely pointless digression I will never tire of debating: which caps should baseball hall-of-famers wear on their plaques?...

Horrible Man Has Terrible Idea

"Before we die, there will be an NFL theme park. In fact, an executive for the Pro Football Hall of Fame recently proposed a version for Canton, Ohio, in which actual elderly NFL retirees would live in a nearby 'village.'" [Grantland]...

Randy Johnson will wear a Diamondbacks cap on his Hall of Fame plaque. That means Ken Griffey Jr. will be the first player to go in as a Mariner when he's inducted next year....

2014 Deadspin Hall Of Fame Inductee: Tommy Craggs

Tommy Craggs has left us to lord over every other Gawker Media site for the next year or so, after which he'll probably need work. After getting a big ol' boner in the quest to verify that Manti Te'o's dead girlfriend was indeed fake and turning Deadspin into a site for communist propaganda, he no...