INDUCTION JUNCTION: It's been a busy week on the Hall of Fame beat, with Cooperstown and Cleveland both welcoming new classes, but that doesn't mean the nation's thousands of other halls have been quiet. Here's a few of the other Hall of Fame stories that have recently slipped through the cracks.
- Tommy Lee Jones headlined this year's class of the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame. Joining Jones was his No Country For Old Men co-star Barry Corbin; presumedly Javier Bardem fell just short. The normally ornery Jones, who has won an Oscar, Golden Globe, Emmy and even an MTV Movie award, said of the honor, "This might be the first time that I’ve taken an award personally...This is the first time in all my long years of award winning that I wish my granddad could be here."
- "Stone Cold" Steve Austin will be headlining this year's WWE Hall of Fame class, the first wrassler from the so-called "Attitude Era" to be inducted. Here's a look at some others (Mr. T!) who should also be enshrined.
- When the second class of your Stand-Up Comic Hall of Fame includes Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Bob Newhart, Sam Kinison, and Don Rickles, your initial class must have been hella good. Without clicking on the link, can you name the first five comics Bullz-Eye magazine chose for its inaugural class?
- In other sports, Monica Seles will be inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame this summer, Jeff Agoos and Joy Fawcett were to the National Soccer Hall of Fame, golfers not named Tiger were added to this year's World Golf Hall of Fame ballot, and Muscles Yankee and Miss Easy are this year's nominees to join the Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame’s Living Horse Hall of Fame.
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