Read more about the article Nathan Leacock’s football future rooted in family’s track history

Nathan Leacock’s football future rooted in family’s track history

PHOTO (News & Observer): Millbrook High wide receiver Nathan Leacock influenced by his parents' college track careers. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN Imagine the ideal track and field athlete. He or she combines a sprinter’s fast-twitch muscles with a middle-distance runner’s aerobic endurance. Explosion and endurance — a potent brew. Millbrook High alumnus Dillon Leacock, a sophomore on the University of Houston track team, inherited the magical combination from his parents. Dillon’s explosion and endurance…

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Read more about the article The End Game with Army West Point pioneer Gary Steele

The End Game with Army West Point pioneer Gary Steele

Visit my home page, TomShanahan.Report Gary Steele, West Point trailblazer, Army's first Black football letterman. The End Game discusses race and sports in America with a focus on Michigan State coach Duffy’s Daugherty’s 1960 teams leading college football leading the way. Duffy’s teams were the sport’s first fully integrated rosters and won national titles in 1965 and 1966. Co-hosts: Tom Shanahan, award-winning sportswriter. Herman Bulls, West Point graduate, retired Colonel and honored numerous times as one of the nation’s top African-American…

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Read more about the article Timing right to reexamine Bryant folklore, 1970 USC-Alabama fiction and dispossessed true 1960s pioneers

Timing right to reexamine Bryant folklore, 1970 USC-Alabama fiction and dispossessed true 1960s pioneers

Cover photo (L-R): Kentucky's Walter Hackett, Tennessee's Lester McClain, Michigan State's Jimmy Raye, SMU's Jerry LeVias, and Auburn's James Owens. PHOTO GRAPHIC: Ashley S. Creative Visit my home page, TomShanahanReport EIGHTH OF AN EIGHT-PART SERIES. The first seven parts are listed at the end of the story. Although no one in the documentary says it, there seems to be a feeling that Southern Cal’s rout of Alabama was the shock that the University and a majority of the…

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