Cardinal Gibbons quarterback learned from early age

The newspaper industry provided me a four-decade career experiencing inspiration, dedication and just plain fun. The start of my career while covering the Chargers, college, high school sports and Olympic athletes came full circle with Don Coryell’s Pro Football Hall of Fame induction on August 5 in Canton, Ohio. I helped Hall of Famer Dan Fouts with research on Coryell’s remarkable record of first-time Pro Bowlers with the SAN DIEGO Chargers and Cardinal for Fouts’ presentation to the voters. I’ve…

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A Duffy history lesson to guide Michigan State’s new head coach

ILLUSTRATION: Michigan State College Football Hall of Fame coach Duffy Daugherty. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report My letter to new Michigan State football coach Jonathan Smith: Coach Smith: Welcome to Spartan Nation. A plethora of people – and political factions creating palace intrigue – are no doubt in your ear offering Michigan State-styled advice about the early signing period, the transfer portal, NIL, where to eat and whatever else compounds a modern-day college football coach’s job. But if…

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Below are links click on to purchase my books focused. My books tell the true story of college football integration in the 1960s and address the myths and fiction that allowed a false narrative surrounding the 1970 USC-Alabama game to usurp the credit. As I said when I spoke at the National Sports Media Association book festival, no two books provide an accurate portrayal more than RAYE OF LIGHT and THE RIGHT THING TO DO. I'll put my…

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