BLEACHERS BREW EST. MAY 2006

Someone asked me how my blog and newspaper column came to be titled "Bleachers Brew". It's like this, it's an amalgam of sorts of two things: The bleachers area in the stadium/arena where I used to sit when I would watch baseball, football, and basketball games and Miles Davis' great jazz album Bitches Brew. That's how it got culled together. I originally planned on calling it "The View from the Big Chair" that is a nod to Tears For Fear's second album, Songs from the Big Chair. So there.

Saturday, February 14, 2009

The finalists for the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame

The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced that there are 16 finalists among the original 164 nominated for a seat in Springfield.

Individuals who receive at least five votes from a seven-member screening committee in a given year advance to an Honors Committee, composed of 12 members who vote on each candidate and rotating groups of 12 specialists (one group for female candidates, one group for international candidates, and one group for American and veterans candidates); any individual receiving at least 18 affirmative votes (75 percent of all votes cast) from the Honors Committee is approved for induction into the Hall of Fame. Advancement to the Honors Committee is generally pro forma, although the Hall's Board of Trustees may remove any candidate who "has damaged the integrity of the game of basketball" from consideration.

Al Attles
Cynthia Cooper
Richie Guerin
Bobby Hurley Sr.
Dennis Johnson
Michael Jordan
Johnny "Red" Kerr
Bernard King
Vladimir Kondrashin
Pereira Maciel
Chris Mullin
Don Nelson
Jerry Sloan
John Stockton
Vivian Stringer
David Robinson

The finalists will be announced in April. But all 16 could be elected if possible. Now if that were the Ateneo Sports Hall of Fame all them and their brother would get in.

Posted by Rick Olivares

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