Tom Shanahan is an award-winning sportswriter that began his career in San Diego but has been writing about North Carolina high school sports for nine years. He is the author of “Raye of Light,” a book on Michigan State’s leading role in the integration of college football. Jimmy Raye of E.E. Smith in Fayetteville was the South’s first black quarterback to win a national title on Michigan State’s 1966 team.
