Monthly Archives: October 2009

The United States Sports Academy extends heartfelt congratulations to Rio de Janeiro, the winner of the Olympic bid for the 2016 Games and Paralympic Games. The time for South America to host its first Olympic Games was long overdue. The country previously submitted bids in 1936, 2004 and 2012. This time, Brazilian President Luis Ignacio [...]

The memory of late National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) President Dr. Myles Brand will be honored by the United States Sports Academy, which plans to award scholarships to its best future students in his name. Two master’s students at the Academy, one male and one female, will be named “Brand Scholars.” Plans are to award [...]

The United States Sports Academy hosted the 2009 Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT) Study Tour, bringing eighteen administrators and coaches to observe sports programs and sport facilities in the United States. The Academy has delivered sports programs in more than 60 countries around the world. The Academy has a long-standing relationship with the SAT, sending [...]

C. Vivian Stringer, the famed Rutgers women’s basketball coach whose name graces one of the United States Sports Academy’s Awards of Sport Medallions, was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame. Stringer, the first women’s coach in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) history to lead three different teams to the Final Four, is the third [...]

NCAA rules about monitoring academic progress of athletes may come out more favorable for schools whose football teams are in Bowl Championship Series (BCS) conferences, according to a new study published in the Fall 2009 issue of The Sport Journal, the United States Sports Academy’s online publication. Another article in the world’s largest peer-reviewed journal [...]

Former Chicago Bulls great Michael Jordan leads the balloting through three weeks of international voting in the United States Sports Academy’s search to identify the Greatest Basketball Player of All Time. The Academy is hosting a worldwide ballot through NBC Sports and USA Today in an effort to name its newest sculpture on campus, a [...]

The University of Texas-El Paso’s shocking upset of Houston was an overwhelming choice for the Week 5 College Football Game of the Week, according to the expert panel of the United States Sports Academy. In a week that offered yet another series of compelling games across the country, UTEP’s 58-41 trouncing of Houston ended the [...]