While the carousel of coaches continue to turn in college football, there is one constant figure that patrols the sidelines, Joe Paterno. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1926, Paterno attended Brown University where he played football as well as basketball prior to his 1950 graduation. Upon graduation, he accepted a job as an assistant [...]
On January 12, 2009, the Baseball Writers Association will announce the new class of inductees in to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame. This years ballot is the smallest in history with only 23 names, 10 first timers and 13 returning all trying to be voted into the sacred Hall of Heroes. Voters are [...]
On December 1, 2008, the Hall of Fame ballot was released and leading the way is baseball’s all-time stolen base leader, Rickey Henderson. While being primarily known as a base stealer, it was Henderson’s high on-base percentage, power and ability to score runs that made him perhaps the greatest leadoff hitter in the history of [...]