The Jimmy Raye Project: A Story of a Man who carved a path for Black players and coaches

PHOTO: Jimmy Raye today posing as if he had boarded Duffy Daugherty's Underground Railroad in 1964 bound for Michigan State. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report NFL Media's release promoting its February 8 screening of a documentary on Jimmy Raye during Super Bowl week. *** The National Football League is celebrating this Black History Month with a private screening of The Jimmy Raye Project, a special episode of the Emmy Award-Winning series 'NFL 360' that explores how one man's story…

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Herman Edwards on learning about Duffy’s Underground Railroad

Reposted from my former website, July 12, 2009. PHOTO: Herman Edwards with Tom Izzo (L) and Mark Dantonio at 2018 Michigan State-Arizona State game in Tempe, Arizona. By TOM SHANAHAN Arizona State coach Herm Edwards offered an observation about young athletes, breaking into his familiar belly laugh that fills a room. They view the 1960s as ancient history, he says. “It’s amazing. They think the ’60s was a long time ago. It wasn’t that long ago. I lived…

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