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	<title>Hall Of Fame Network Blog</title>
	
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		<title>MLB All-Star Game: The Lure is Gone</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/07/11/mlb-all-star-game-the-lure-is-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 12:47:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Gilbert</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hofmag.com/?p=521</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to believe the MLB All-Star break is upon us. With summer yet to arrive in the northeast, the weather here still feels like NBA playoff time. When do the Lakers arrive in Boston for yet another NBA Finals? Is Garnett’s balky knee good enough to play? What…you mean we have to wait another [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Icons Die In Hollywood</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/06/26/three-icons-die-in-hollywood/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 13:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Vieira</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Farah Fawcett]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Michael Jackson]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hofmag.com/?p=517</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Death is inevitable. Nonetheless, we are always saddened by it - especially when it touches our mortality. Such was the case the week of 23 June 2009 in Hollywood.
Three icons have died: TV’s greatest sidekick, one of Hollywood’s favorite blondes, and the King of Pop.  For those old enough to have watched each rise to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greatest NBA Players of All-Time</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/06/09/greatest-nba-players-of-all-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 14:31:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Gilbert</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Basketball]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[George Mikan]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Jerry West]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Johnny Most]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Kareem Abdul-Jabbar]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Lew Alcindor]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hofmag.com/?p=513</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[To the now-generation basketball fans, excuse me for being more than 30 years old. When I played hoops, or anything else for that matter, I wore Converse “Chuck Taylor” canvas sneakers. The first time I bought “basketball shoes” was circa 1969. They were Adidas. And while I thought they were cool, they were also too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Baseball Card History</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/06/01/baseball-card-history/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 15:33:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Budris</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Topps]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hofmag.com/?p=507</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[by Jeff Figler, Collectibles Editor, HOFN.com
As baseball cards have become a part of American tradition and folklore, it is interesting to see how its evolution developed. A thumbnail sketch is as follows.
It is hard to imagine that baseball cards were first issued in 1887 by a few of the existing tobacco companies of that era. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Greatest Generation</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/05/25/the-greatest-generation-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 13:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Vieira</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hofmag.com/?p=504</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With Memorial Day upon us, we all need to take a moment and reflect.
As a Baby Boomer, I&#8217;m fortunate to have been born from parents of &#8220;The Greatest Generation.&#8221; For those unknowing, the Greatest Generation is a term used for Americans born from about 1911 to 1924. Americans who lived through the Great Depression, served [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lakers’ Greatest Players</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/05/25/lakers%e2%80%99-greatest-players/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 13:31:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Gilbert</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Bill Bradley]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Shaquille O’Neil]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hofmag.com/?p=501</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you were watching NBA basketball during the JFK, LBJ, and Nixon presidential era, you must have fallen off your chair when ABC/ESPN broadcaster Jeff Van Gundy recently proclaimed Kobe Bryant the greatest Lakers’ player of all-time. Hell, he doesn’t even make my top four (yet).
What makes Van Gundy’s comment even more surprising is that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Manny Joins Hall of Shame</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/05/11/manny-joins-hall-of-shame/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/05/11/manny-joins-hall-of-shame/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 12:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Gilbert</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hofmag.com/?p=494</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Manny Ramirez, called by many the greatest right-handed hitter of his generation (along with Albert Pujols), is the latest potential casualty to become a Hall of Famer. Hit with a recent 50-game suspension for violating the MLB drug policy, Manny joins the likes of McGwire, Bonds, Sosa, Clemens, Palmeiro, and A-Rod who will be keenly [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NBA Playoffs: For Real Basketball Fans</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/04/17/nba-playoffs-for-real-basketball-fans/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/04/17/nba-playoffs-for-real-basketball-fans/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Apr 2009 11:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Gilbert</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hofmag.com/?p=492</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Send the college hoopsters back to school for their finals and “bracket fans” (posing as basketball fans) back to whatever they do during the regular basketball season. March Madness is over and the real basketball season begins. It’s NBA Playoff time.
The greatest athletes in the world, a.k.a. professional basketball players, begin their quest for that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jordon Gets HOF Call…But Where’s Artis Gilmore?</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/04/12/jordon-gets-hof-call%e2%80%a6but-where%e2%80%99s-artis-gilmore/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/04/12/jordon-gets-hof-call%e2%80%a6but-where%e2%80%99s-artis-gilmore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2009 22:24:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Vieira</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blog.hofmag.com/?p=490</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame recently announced its 2009 Induction Class – and it could be one of its greatest classes ever. Hell, anything in basketball including Michael Jordon’s name has to be considered one of the best. Joining Jordon are fellow players David Robinson and John Stockton, plus Coaches Jerry Sloan and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Curt Schilling: A Hall of Famer?</title>
		<link>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/03/25/curt-schilling-a-hall-of-famer/</link>
		<comments>http://blog.hofmag.com/2009/03/25/curt-schilling-a-hall-of-famer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 01:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gil Vieira</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Since the announced retirement of Curt Schilling, the question du jour is whether or not he should be voted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. My initial, knee-jerk reaction was no. However, I’m now having second thoughts.
I am not a stat machine, so if you’re looking for all the numbers, you can look ‘em [...]]]></description>
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