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Tom Shanahan is an award-winning sportswriter honored by the National Football Foundation/San Diego Chapter, USA Track and Field/San Diego Chapter, San Diego Press Club and Copley Press as the former owner of a chain that included the San Diego Union-Tribune. His first book is due for a September 2014 release by August Publications. The title is, Raye of Light; The subhead is, Jimmy Raye, Duffy Daugherty, the integration of college football and the 1965-66 Michigan State Spartans. Tony Dungy, the first African-American head coach to win a Super Bowl, has written the Foreword. Shanahan has written the past four decades for newspapers, magazines and websites. He covered professional, collegiate and high school sports as well as featured Olympic athletes for the San Diego Union-Tribune. He has never tired for high school sports for its breath of fresh air and enjoys covering the Army-Navy game for the lack of entitlement demonstrated by academy athletes. Shanahan has won multiple first-place awards from the San Diego Press Club and first place from the Copley News Service Ring of Truth Awards. He recently launched his own website, Shanahanreport.com, and has been freelancing for the Raleigh News and Observer/Cary News. Shanahan grew up in Big Rapids, Michigan, and graduated from Michigan State University with a journalism degree in 1978.