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It feels like we are losing so many great ones.  Today we lost another. Bobby Bowden, who was the Head Coach of at Florida State from 1976 to 2009 passed away at the age of 91 following a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Bowden played Quarterback at Howard College (Samford) and he would become an assistant coach there shortly after.  He later became the Head Coach at South Georgia State College (1956), and returned to Samford as their Head Coach in 1959.  His solid work there got him to big time, first at Florida State as the Wide Receivers Coach (1963), and then…

The sadness in professional wrestling continues.  “Beautiful” Bobby Eaton, best known for his tag team work in the Midnight Express, passed away at the age of 62.  It is not known at this time how he passed. Eaton debuted in 1976 after being trained by Tojo Yamamoto, and would quickly be used in various tag teams.  One of the most natural in-ring workers in the business, Eaton was regarded by his peers as one of the best.   His career really took off when he first teamed with “Loverboy” Dennis Condrey, managed by Jim Cornette, as the Midnight Express.  They drew money in Mid South,…

Jody Hamilton, known professionally as “The Assassin” passed away at the age of 82.  He had been in hospice care for the last month. Hamilton began his pro wrestling career in 1957, but it was when he became teaming with Tom Renesto as the Assassins four years later that his career took off.  The tandem wrestled all across the United States for 12 years, collecting titled and main eventing numerous times.  They broke up when Renesto concentrated on booking, but Hamilton carried on as a single.  He would later resurrect the tag team, with Randy Colley and Hercules Hernandez serving as his partners. Following…

Yes, we know that this is taking a while! As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our pre-2021-22 revision of our top 50 Toronto Raptors. As for all of our top 50 players in basketball we look at the following:  1.  Advanced Statistics. 2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in the NBA.  3.  Playoff accomplishments. 4.  Their overall…

Regular visitors of Notinhalloffame.com know that we are slowly working on the top 50 of every major team in the NHL, NBA, NFL and MLB.  Once that is done, we intend to look at how each team honor their past players, coaches and executives.  As such, it is news to us that the Colorado State Athletic Hall of Fame has announced their Class of 2021. This group comprises the 30th ever Class, and it consists of six people. The induction will take place on September 10, with the group being unveiled at their home game the day after against Vanderbilt. The Class of…