Read more about the article One more honor due Bill Walton: The Presidental Medal of Freedom

One more honor due Bill Walton: The Presidental Medal of Freedom

More on Bill Walton: We'll miss Bill Walton the player, the broadcaster and the father who knew best - Tom Shanahan Report By TOM SHANAHAN President Joe Biden: Please honor Bill Walton with a Presidential Medal of Freedom same as Bill Russell and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Russell received his Meda in 2011 and Abdul-Jabbar in 2016 from President Barack Obama. Walton can join them posthumously following his death on May 27 at age 71 from colon cancer, but this…

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Read more about the article My FWAA first-place story on the 1962 Rose Bowl and segregation

My FWAA first-place story on the 1962 Rose Bowl and segregation

Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize winner and biographer: "History writes people out of the story. It's our job to write them back in." *** I’m humbled and honored to share with you I’ve won first place in a national sports writing contest sponsored by the Football Writers Association of America. The FWAA, on its Fifth Down website, announced the 30th annual contest winners. My story won first place for Enterprise. I wrote about the 1962…

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Read more about the article The 1962 Rose Bowl’s 60th anniversary: UCLA’s Black students and players stared down Bear Bryant with Jim Murray’s break from 1960s media customs

The 1962 Rose Bowl’s 60th anniversary: UCLA’s Black students and players stared down Bear Bryant with Jim Murray’s break from 1960s media customs

PHOTO: The 1961 UCLA football team that won the AAWU title to earn a Rose Bowl berth. My story was awarded first place for 2021 season Enterprise stories by the Football Writers Association of America. Visit my website homepage, TomShanahan.Report By TOM SHANAHAN The 1962 Rose Bowl established a college football Civil Rights milestone, but the 60th anniversary of the New Year’s Day game came and went without attention or even a fractional accounting. What should be remembered as…

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