A long-time baseball tradition has come to a stormy end, as bad weather forced the cancellation of the final MLB Hall of Fame Game.

Today’s contest between the Cubs & the Padres was to be the last game played in Cooperstown, NY, as MLB officials decided last January to discontinue the annual exhibition at the home of the Baseball Hall of Fame. But the ASSOCIATED PRESS reports that heavy rains & thunderstorms washed out what was to be the end of a 69-year-old tradition.

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It’s been a while since Al Sharpton last stuck his mug into the news, so it figures it was time for another sighting of the good reverend. And this one’s a doozy - he’s calling on the NFL to cancel their Hall of Fame game.

WKYC-TV reports that Sharpton and his National Action Network wants the league to postpone their annual preseason game in Canton, Ohio, in protest of alleged police misconduct by the Canton force. Read more…