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First-year candidates Junior Seau, Kurt Warner and Orlando Pace are among 18 finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame.The list of nominees was reduced Thursday to 15 from the modern era, one senior and two contributors. A finalist must receive at least 80 per cent of the votes from the 46-person selection committee to be elected.The class of 2015 will be announced Jan. 31 in Phoenix during NFL Honors, the TV show in which The Associated Press hands out its eight individual NFL awards. Inductions will be in August in Canton, Ohio.The modern-day finalists are kicker Morten Andersen, running back Jerome Bettis, wide receiver Tim Brown, coach Don Coryell, running back Terrell Davis, coach Tony Dungy, linebacker-defensive end Kevin Greene, linebacker-defensive end Charles Haley, wide receiver Marvin Harrison, coach Jimmy Johnson, safety John Lynch, and guard Will Shields.The senior nominee is former Vikings centre Mick Tingelhoff.Special contributors are Bill Polian and Ron Wolf, the architects of Super Bowl teams as executives.Of the three coaches on the ballot, Dungy is in his second year of eligibility, Johnson in his 16th and Coryell in his 28th. Hall of Fame rules for coaches changed in 2007, requiring the coach to be retired for five seasons.Seau, who committed suicide in 2012, played two decades with three teams and made 12 Pro Bowls. He was the NFL Defensive Player of the Year in 1992.Warner guided St. Louis to its only Super Bowl victory after the 1999 season and also led the Rams to the title game two years later. He helped Arizona get to its only Super Bowl after the 2008 season. He won league MVP honours in 1999 and 2001.Pace was the first overall draft pick in 1997 by the Rams and played 13 seasons, with five Pro Bowl selections.Like Dungy, one of his star players, Harrison, is in his second year of eligibility. The Colts star retired ranking second to Jerry Rice in receptions with 1,102.Andersen, seeking to become the only kicker other than Jan Stenerud in the hall, and Lynch are in their third years on the ballot. Andersen played 25 pro seasons with five franchises and set the NFL records for points (2,544), field goals (565) and games (382). Lynch spent 11 seasons with Tampa Bay, four with Denver, and made nine Pro Bowls.Shields, a Pro Bowl guard 12 straight years with Kansas City, is in his fourth year of eligibility. Bettis, nicknamed The Bus, carried the Steelers to the 2005 NFL championship in his final season and has been on the ballot for five years.Brown, a standout kick returner as well as pass catcher, is in his sixth year of eligibility. He made nine Pro Bowls, twice as a return man.Davis gave Denver an efficient running game to go with John Elways passing, and they took the Broncos to championships in 1997 and 1998. This is his ninth year on the ballot.Pass-rushing stars Haley and Greene are in their 11th year of eligibility. Greene played for four teams and made the Pro Bowl five times. Haley won five Super Bowls, two with San Francisco and three with Dallas, the only player to do so.Tingelhoff retired in 1978 after 17 seasons as one of the most durable and dependable centres in the league. He never missed a game, starting 240, and made it to four Super Bowls.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL Cyber Monday Yeezy . -- Cole De Vries had a couple of key strikeouts during what could have been the inning that doomed him to defeat against the Kansas City Royals, allowing him to escape further damage and keep the game tied up. Fake Yeezy .Best moustache: How can we not give this to Lanny McDonald? Check out the duster for yourself. https://www.fakeyeezywholesaleonline.com/. The D-Backs came into being in 1998 and appear destined to finish second in the AL West after the Tsunami that is the Los Angeles Dodgers swept over them. I thought it might be interesting to see what the D-backs have done over their 16 years compared to what the Blue Jays have done over their past 16 campaigns. Cheap Yeezy . -- Chicago manager Darold Butler has a message for the Windy City. Discount Yeezy . For Sweed, a second round pick of the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2008, this will be his second go around in the CFL after previously having spent time with the Saskatchewan Roughriders.The bands first full length LP, Jackson Square, was released in 2008 to critical and commercial acclaim, which led to a Juno Award for New Group Of The Year in 2010. In 2011, they released Michigan Left, a collection of blue-eyed soul, sing-a-long anthems. In 2012 they won the Juno Award For Group Of The Year, and the CBC Music award for Best Live Band.dddddddddddd High Noon looks to keep growing the impressive catalogue the Arkells have already put together and carry on their legacy as one of the cant miss musical artists in the country.For more information on the band or upcoming tour info, you can visit their website . ' ' '