Monthly Archives: February 2011

Representatives from Jones County Junior College (JCJC) and the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security (NCS4) visited the United States Sports Academy on Friday, 18 February 2011, to discuss the ways and means by which the organizations might be able to work together. From left: Mr. Jim Walley, the Vice President of External [...]

Academy Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Dr. T.J. Rosandich (left) recently met with Shabery bin Cheek (right), the Minister of Youth and Sport for Malaysia, to discuss developing a nationwide program to retrain all of Malaysia’s physical educators. This was the second stop in the Vice President’s three-nation tour of Asia, after visiting Thailand last [...]

Kanokphand Chulakasem (left), the governor of the Sports Authority of Thailand (SAT), visits Academy Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Dr. T.J. Rosandich during his recent visit to Bangkok, Thailand. Dr. T.J. Rosandich is in Thailand teaching a course in Olympism in conjunction with the SAT. The course is the first in a six-part series [...]

The football gods saved their best for last this past season, as Auburn’s 22-19 victory over Oregon in the Tostitos BCS National Championship Game was named College Football Game of the Year by the United States Sports Academy. Noted Alabama artist Daniel A. Moore has been commissioned by the Academy to commemorate the historic achievement [...]

Joining eleven other Detachments in the great state of Alabama, the United States Marine Corps League has opened a new Detachment in Daphne on the campus of the United States Sports Academy. Cal Walters, Commandant of the Department of Alabama Marine Corps League, met with local leadership on the campus of the United States Sports [...]

Former first Lady Nancy Reagan (left of the display) unveils a new postage stamp, designed by 1986 American Sport Artist and Archives (ASAMA) Sport Artist of the Year Bart Forbes (right of the display), to honor the late President Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday. The 40th President of the United States was a radio announcer for [...]

Ibiyinka Olufemi Alao of Nigeria, a winner of the United Nations International Art Competition, recently visited the United States Sports Academy’s American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA) during a tour of the United States. He was guest of Academy Art Committee Chairperson Nancy Raia. During the visit, he displayed the original of his work: [...]

"Babe Ruth" Face Jug Ten miles from the United States Sports Academy’s Daphne campus is a place where history and world culture combine in the works of local ceramic Potter John Rezner. Rezner, the American Sport Art Museum and Archives (ASAMA) 2011 Sport Artist of the Year, is known for a style of pottery that [...]

The United States Sports Academy will be providing Academic services to three multi-billion dollar projects, “Sport Cities” in China that will be built around a major golf course and designed to be model towns for promoting a “healthy and happy” lifestyle in the world’s most populous nation. Academy President Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich plans to [...]

This past Sunday was the 100th birthday of Ronald Reagan (left), the 40th President of the United States. In 1988, President Reagan and Academy President Dr. Thomas P. Rosandich (middle) presented the Academy’s Ronald Reagan Media Award to ABC sports announcer Al Michaels (right) at the Western White House.