“I tell untold stories on college football integration”

Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN I tell untold stories about college football integration. My quest is to lay down the facts of the true 1960s pioneers. The stories are focused on but not limited to Michigan State’s 1960s leadership under Duffy Daugherty. The College Football Hall of Fame coach assembled the sport’s first fully integrated rosters while his Underground Railroad teams tapped the segregated South. However, I learned from writing “Raye of Light” presenting the…

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SEC football statues on Monday April 17, 2017. Photo by Mark Cornelison | UKphoto

Stoops needs to teach Calipari a Kentucky history lesson

PHOTO: Kentucky football coach Charlie Bradshaw led Southeastern Conference desegregation with two Black recruits signed in 1966 and two more in 1967. The school unveiled a statue of its pioneers in 2016 (l-r): Nate Northington, Greg Page, Wilbur Hackett and Houston Hogg. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN There’s one more storyline to consider regarding John Calipari’s self-serving comments that Kentucky is a basketball school. And I’m here to explain it. The headlines last week favored…

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College football integration lore, in the form of traffic, has been steered to a fairytale exit

PHOTO: Pro-southern historians in the 1920s captured the narrative of the Civil War, and Robert E. Lee's statue stood over Richmond, Virginia, streets until it finally came down in 2021. A comparison can be made to Bear Bryant apologists and USC fiction writers capturing the college football integration narrative. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report “History writes people out of the story. It’s our job to write them back in.” — David Maraniss, Pulitzer prize-winning biographer By TOM SHANAHAN I’d…

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