Archive for the 'Hall of Fame' Category
An amazing collection of the best NBA Playoff moments guaranteed to waste your afternoon.
I bet you can’t watch just one.
Watch them all here.
Got an hour to waste? Head over to ESPN for a great look at the best NFL franchise players of all time, broken down team by team. Each player was chosen through a vote and included is the percentages for each athlete. The discussion boards should be full of good stuff!
It was the mindset that would, in three years time, help trigger World War II. In 1936, Adolf Hitler boasted of Aryan supremacy and predicted their success at the Berlin Olympics. He wanted to show the world that the German “master race” would excel in the Olympic events, to the detriment of the other races.
African-American, […]
Very interesting…from ESPN.com:
The New York Jets have received permission to talk to retired Green Bay Packers quarterback Brett Favre, a source told ESPN’s Chris Mortensen on Friday.
Also Friday, a Packers source told Mortensen that Favre informed Packers general manager Ted Thompson by phone on Thursday that he was planning to report to the team’s training […]
The awkwardness surrounding how the ball landed in the Hall of Fame can only be matched by the awkwardness surrounding Barry Bonds season, or lack thereof.
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Coach Pat Riley, ESPN college basketball analyst Dick Vitale, players Hakeem Olajuwon and Patrick Ewing, plus three others have been elected to basketball’s Hall of Fame. Read more… and check out Hakeen and Patrick in the NCAA below.
Hakeem Olajuwon at University of Houston:
Patrick Ewing at Georgetown:
Time Warner takes a page from the book of “give people what they want”
Enter SI Vault. If you are wondering what SI Vault is, as the name would imply, it’s 54 years of Sports Illustraded’s covers, images, stories and much more. If an image is worth a thousand words, what would 54 years’ […]
You have to love ESPN. Check out this list on the 25 greatest single season feats by athletes:
25. Marcus Allen, USC Trojans, 1981
24. Ted Williams, Boston Red Sox, 1941
23. LaDainian Tomlinson, San Diego Chargers, 2006
22. Michael Jordan, Chicago Bulls, 1987-88
21. Martina Navratilova, 1984
20. Mario Lemieux, Pittsburgh Penguins, 1992-93
19. Pedro Martinez, Boston Red Sox, 1999
18. […]
This is starting to become quite the soap opera:
Slugger Barry Bonds said he would refuse induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame if his record home run ball branded with an asterisk goes on display in the Cooperstown shrine.
Dogged by speculation that his pursuit of baseball’s all-time home run mark was fuelled by performance-enhancing drugs, […]
He wouldn’t do that, it would prove that he’s been taking allegedly steroids all along.
Instead he’s gonna donate a batting helmet… a batting helmet? If it’s the batting helmet, that’s fine, I guess.
“I’m not worried about the Hall. I take care of me.”
Barry Bonds, when asked what he would give to the Hall of Fame […]