Monthly Archives: January 2011

Joe Womack, a 1988 graduate of the United States Sports Academy, was recently named assistant general manager of the Canadian Football League’s (CFL) Hamilton Tiger-Cats. Womack joins the Tiger-Cats football operations staff after four seasons with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, most recently as their Director of U.S. Scouting. “I had an offer to go back to [...]

Jack Lalanne, the man whose name was synonymous with fitness for decades and winner of the United States Sports Academy’s 1995 Dwight D. Eisenhower Fitness Award, died Sunday at the age of 96. “While many kids were watching Loony Tunes and Mr. Rogers, I remember watching Jack Lalanne,” said Academy doctoral student and interval training [...]

A donation of 179 bronze statues from internationally-acclaimed sculptor Nemeth Ferenc pleased leaders of the American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA), a division of the United States Sports Academy, after what has already been a blockbuster year in art gifts. “It is a tacit recognition of the American Sport Art Museum and Archives as [...]

The work of John Rezner, the American Sports Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA) 2011 Sport Artist of the Year, Ceramics, is on sale at the United States Sports Academy. Jugs can be purchased at the Academy’s Daphne campus, at One Academy Drive, between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The Fairhope, Ala.-based artist [...]

Academy graduate Brandon Bowling (right), who now works for CBS Sports Site MaxPreps, visited the campus and Academic Affairs Dean Dr. Fred Cromartie (left) during a business trip to Daphne. MaxPreps is an online high school sports information service that handles high school coverage. Tuesday night Bowling, who received a master’s degree in sports management [...]

Leaders in sports business, administration, media, medicine and coaching were honored in a ceremony at the United States Sports Academy Friday afternoon. Honorary doctorates were given to Guo Jie, president of WorldTeam Sports in China, and Jack Lengyel, former Marshall University head football coach and athletic director at the United States Naval Academy. Also honored [...]

Before Auburn senior kicker Wes Bynum cleared the uprights as time expired and the engraving process for the Tigers’ BCS Championships rings began, the United States Sports Academy honored quarterback Cam Newton with the 2010 Alabama Male Athlete of the Year Award. To commemorate this award, the 2010 Heisman Trophy winner was honored by way [...]

A prestigious international business award was presented to one of China’s most powerful sports business leaders during his visit to Daphne Thursday night. Peter Tichansky, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU), presented the Dwight D. Eisenhower Global Award for Sport to Guo Jie, President of WorldTeam Sports, at [...]

There are some crazy parents in youth sports, and the most popular sporting event in the world is the India-Pakistan cricket match, according to the panel of experts who addressed a packed room at the United States Sports Academy Friday afternoon. Four of the Academy’s Awards of Sport medallion winners, two Honorary Doctorate recipients and [...]

The United States Sports Academy, “America’s Sports University”, and WorldTeam, among the largest privately owned sport services companies in the People’s Republic of China, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Friday, 7 January 2011, establishing the framework for the development of the Sino-American Golf Academy (SAGA) in that country. Plans call for the development [...]