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The recent list of winners at TPC Scottsdale reads like a future Hall of Fame roll call.

As we segue from the Hall-of-Fame election to the soon arrival of pitchers and catchers, this is a good time to celebrate the active players who don’t have to do anything more for us to earn a ticket to Cooperstown.

The ACC coach is the only active coach in the College Football Hall of Fame.

SAN DIEGO — If you're among the hundreds of thousands of San Diegans who rode the Super Bowl wave with the 1994 Chargers, raise a protein shake in honor of Bobby Beathard, the body-surfing football savant and fitness buff who drafted Junior Seau, hired Bobby Ross and weathered working for…

"He was a friend of mine. He is a friend of mine. I just haven't seen him. But I always really enjoyed playing with him and being around him."

Oh, to be in the room where it happens. The nominating room for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Those debates must be fiery.

PITTSBURGH — Is there anything more tiresome than the "Steelers Way?"

There is no threat of him signing with the 49ers now with this final retirement announcement.

A spokesperson for the Washington Commanders said Beathard’s family told the team he died Monday at his home in Franklin, Tennessee.