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Tom Shanahan is an award-winning sportswriter and author of books focused on Michigan State coach Duffy Daugherty's 1960s football teams leading college football integration. He started his website, TomShanahan.Report, in 2015 after researching and writing his first book, RAYE OF LIGHT, Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the Integration of College Football and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans. Foreword by Tony Dungy. August Publications.

Career Shanahan is a from Big Rapids, Michigan, and is a Michigan State University graduate. He was sports editor the the State News, the student newspaper, as a senior in the 1977-78. His time overlapped covering with the freshman year of Earvin "Magic" Johnson.

He spent most of his newspaper career in San Diego, starting at the Oceanside Blade-Tribune and later at the San Diego Union-Tribune. The first high school athlete he interviewed as a young sportswriter fresh out of college was Oceanside High senior football player, Savaii Seau, the older brother of Junior Seau, who was then in middle school. Savaii told him then, in the fall of 1978, "Watch for my younger brother coming up."

Shanahan has written two more books and one children's book.

--- THE RIGHT THING TO DO, The True Pioneers of College Football Integration in the 1960s. Foreword by Ruffin McNeill. August Publications.

--- BUBBA'S DAD, DUFFY AND COLLEGE FOOTBALL'S UNDERGROUND RAILROAD. LT Publishing.

At the 2023 National Sports Media Association Book Festival in Winston-Salem, N.C., Shanahan stated no two books better tell the story of college football integration than RAYE OF LIGHT and THE RIGHT THING TO DO.

In 2022, his story on the 1962 Rose Bowl, Alabama and segregation was awarded first place by the Football Writers Association of America.

He is a frequent guest on The Drive with Jack, a sports radio showed hosted by Jack Ebling in Lansing, Michigan.