Alan Haller endorsed by Spartans from national championship teams

For more Michigan State history, visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report CLICK ON LINK BELOW https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0_k2wsXurs By TOM SHANAHAN Michigan State players from the head coach Duffy Daugherty's 1965 and 1966 national championship teams that won back-to-back unbeaten Big Ten titles endorse Alan Haller as the school's next athletic director. Daugherty's 1960s teams led college football integration with its first fully integrated rosters. He combined a Midwest-based roster with African-Americans recruited from the segregated South and players on his…

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Football’s unintended impact of concussions

I've transferred this story from my former website that was originally on May 26, 2015. By TOM SHANAHAN CTE joined the NFL alphabet largely through the deaths of football legends Mike Webster, Dave Duerson and Junior Seau and a $765 million lawsuit by former players, but fans still possess only limited awareness of concussions. Dick Proebstle They can gain much more knowledge about Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, the degeneration of the brain from too many blows to the head,…

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