Monthly Archives: December 2010

Nominations are being accepted online for the United States Sports Academy’s “Mr. Baseball” competition. The purpose of the ballot will be to determine the greatest baseball player of all time, and to name the impending new addition by Fairhope sculptor Bruce Larsen to the Academy’s Sport Sculpture Park. Baseball fans can submit their nominations by [...]

The United States Sports Academy participated in the effort to bring the World Leisure Organization (WLO) to Mobile, Ala, for its 2014 World Leisure Congress. Academy President Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich (center) met with members of the WLO Board of Directors who visited the Daphne campus this past summer, including (left to right) Jack Agrios [...]

Auburn’s 24-point comeback, the largest by any Alabama opponent, resulted in a 28-27 victory over the Crimson Tide to make the Iron Bowl the United States Sports Academy’s College Football Game of the Week. In the 75th edition of one of the most celebrated rivalries in sports, Tigers’ quarterback Cameron Newton threw for three touchdowns [...]

Who were the greatest athletes of 2010? Have your say in the United States Sports Academy’s Athlete of the Year balloting, presented to the world by NBCSports.com and USATODAY.com. Balloting begins at noon, 1 December 2010. The Athlete of the Year ballot is the culmination of the Academy’s yearlong Athlete of the Month program, which [...]

In 1974, when I was President of FOX Sports, I was also involved with Dr. Ernie Vandeweghe on the president’s Council of Physical Fitness. The great NFL coach George Allen was our chairman and he had a dream, which we shared, of building a Sports Academy in California. George never realized that dream. However, my [...]