The year the quarterback who was later a stock broker beat the Super Bowl ticket market

PHOTO: Notre Dame's Terry Hanratty added his College Football Hall of Fame enshrinement in December to his national title and two Super Bowl rings with the Pittsburgh Steelers. Visit my homepage: TomShanahan.Report — Click here for book review and purchase link: THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s and here for a purchase link to RAYE OF LIGHT, Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the Integration of College Football and the 1965-66 Michigan State…

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THE RIGHT THING TO DO: Donate to the Rashaan Salaam Foundation

By TOM SHANHAN The Rashaan Salaam Foundation is holding launch on October 12 at the College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta. At the event, I’ll be donating to the foundation 100 percent of funds raised through the sale of copies of my new book, “THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s.” Salaam was the Heisman Trophy winner in 1994 as a 2,000-yard rusher at Colorado and was enshrined in…

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The Wonders of Michigan State’s expanded worlds under President John Hannah’s leadership

PHOTO: Wonders Hall opened in 1963 as John Hannah's example of a progressive campus before the 1964 and 1965 Civil Rights Acts were signed. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN Gene Washington escaped the segregated South 60 years ago, boarding Michigan State’s Underground Railroad from La Porte, Texas. His life-altering journey as a freshman football recruit for preseason practice was prior to September classes. The time frame, coincidentally, matched 250,000 Americans traveling to the nation’s capital…

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