Daly’s stories on James Bond, Duffy, Biggie, breakfast with The Bear and quotes Bryant’s apologists don’t want you to hear

By TOM SHANAHAN Team equipment managers hear the juiciest gossip. As the locker room empties, they quietly go about their business, unintentionally a chameleon blended into the walls. Others forget they’re within earshot. Marty Daly was one of those guys at Michigan State. Daly was the Spartans’ assistant equipment manager from the 1965 to 1972, a time that overlapped College Football Hall of Fame coach Duffy Daugherty’s 1965 and 1966 national championship teams. He later was promoted to…

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Her arm is missing but not her heart

PHOTO: Dawn Halfaker interviewed by James Gandolfini for his ALive Days special in 2007 on HBO. NOTE: I've reposted this story I originally wrote July 17, 2007 as a columnist for Voice of San Diego. By TOM SHANAHAN Heroes, warriors and courage are words thrown around too loosely in sports, especially by those that have never been in battle. Capt. Dawn Halfaker (U.S. Army retired), a women’s basketball star at the Army as a West Point cadet from…

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