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Brian Leetch is headed to the Hall of Fame and he won't be the only former Ranger in the class of 2009. The NHL announced today that Leetch, Steve Yzerman, Brett Hull and Luc Robitaille, who played parts of two seasons with New York, will be inducted into the Hall of Fame this November. Leetch played over 1100 games as a Blueshirt and holds the team record for assists with 741. He was the Rookie of the Year in the NHL in 1989, won two Norris trophies as the best defensemen in the league and was named MVP of the 1993-94 playoffs. The Rangers actually traded Leetch twice in his career. First in the off-season in 2003 before promptly resigning him and more famously in 2004 when they shipped him to Toronto for a package of players and draft picks. That was all forgotten in 2008 when the Rangers put Leetch’s #2 into the rafters at MSG. The NHL also announced that Devils GM Lou Lamoriello will be enshrined in the Builder’s Category of the Hall of Fame. Lamoriello has made the Devils into a perennial powerhouse, winning the Stanley Cup three times, most recently in 2003.

It's about time: Run-DMC will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame tomorrow. In 1985 (nine years before the real deal opened) they put out a video for "King of Rock" that showed them trespassing at a fictional rock 'n' roll museum (watch it after the jump). Darryl McDaniels, aka DMC, remembers "people were saying that was kind of prophetic: 'You guys are bound for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame because of that.' "And now they're being welcomed with open arms.

Rich "Goose" Gossage, the former Yankees reliever who also pitched with eight other teams, gave a 17-minute acceptance speech as the only player honored this year in Cooperstown. A preeminent fireman reliever of his time, Gossage was the man who ended the epic one-game playoff between the Yankees and the Red Sox in 1978 by getting Carl Yastrzemski to pop out to third base. His plaque will forever show a Yankees cap, though he also made a name for himself with the San Diego Padres. Gossage said the induction was "the most amazing thing, outside of the birth of my three boys, that I've ever been through." He pitched 22 seasons, posting a 3.01 ERA and recording 301 saves, but his workload was most impressive: In that famous 1978 season, when the Yankees came from 14 1/2 games back to beat the Red Sox, he threw 134 innings, all in relief.

The little children out there may have trouble remembering it, but the Knicks were once good. In fact, they even played in the NBA Finals in 1994. Patrick Ewing did all he could, but when John Starks went 2-for-18 in Game 7, he helped keep Ewing on the Dan Marino list of greatest sports stars to never win a ring.