It sure sounds nice, the idea that Major League Baseball’s embrace of legalized betting has opened a door for the late Pete Rose to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame. With all this gambling going on, they’d be a bunch of hypocrites if they didn’t put Rose in Cooperstown, right? Well … no. It’s…
Shari Franke, the eldest daughter of former YouTube family vlogger Ruby Franke, has spoken out about a disturbing incident involving her younger brother Chad. In the upcoming Hulu docuseries Devil in the Family: The Fall of Ruby Franke, premiering on February 27, Shari recalls helping Chad clean blood off the walls after he was severely…
NEW ORLEANS — Antonio Gates, Jared Allen, Eric Allen and Sterling Sharpe comprise a streamlined 2025 Pro Football Hall of Fame class after changes to the voting process raised the bar for enshrinement this year. The class revealed at the NFL Honors show on Thursday night is the Hall’s smallest in 20 years and the…
Michael Bevan during a Cricket Australia Hall of Fame Announcement at Melbourne Cricket Ground. (Photo by Daniel Pockett/Getty Images) NEW DELHI: Michael Bevan, the legendary ODI batsman for Australia, was elected into the Australian Cricket Hall of Fame after the requirements for membership in the esteemed club were modified.According to Cricket Australia (CA), the Australian…
COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. — He had walked through these massive red doors before — seven times before. But this was different. This was visit No. 8, on a frosty, 14-degree Thursday morning in January. This time, Ichiro Suzuki was walking through these doors, of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, as one of the legends. “This…
Michael Clarke during the Cricket Australia Hall of Fame ceremony at Sydney Cricket Ground. (Photo by Hanna Lassen/Getty Images) timesofiNEW DELHI: The Australian Cricket Hall of Fame inducted World Cup-winning former captain Michael Clarke as its 64th member, the nation’s cricket governing body said Thursday. On Wednesday, the induction ceremony was held at the Sydney…
New York Yankees catcher Austin Romine was buckling his shinguards in the dugout when he heard a booming voice and immediately looked up. It was CC Sabathia. He was pissed. “First dude,” Sabathia said. It was Sept. 27, 2018. Sabathia was set on revenge against the Tampa Bay Rays, after reliever Andrew Kittredge aimed a…
Inzamam-ul-Haq, left, and Misbah-ul-Haq (Agency Photos) The Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) on Friday announced the names of latest inductees into the prestigious Hall of Fame, chosen after a voting process conducted by an independent panel of 11 members, according to a PCB press release. Inzamam-ul-Haq, Misbah-ul-Haq, Mushtaq Mohammad and Saeed Anwar are the latest to…
IC 814 Captain Devi Sharan retires NEW DELHI: “Now even as a passenger, I will always be looking at people around me to ensure that everyone is alright and nothing’s wrong. A creeping doubt will linger on.” That’s how Captain Devi Sharan — commander of the Indian Airlines aircraft IC 814 hijacked in December 1999…
Two guys are sitting in a bar. They could be talking about who the Giants’ next quarterback should be, or what went wrong with Daniel Jones. Instead, they are talking about Eli Manning, as, it seems, they have been for most of the last two decades. They are debating whether he should be voted into…