COACH: George Allen, new football coach at...

COACH: George Allen, new football coach at Cal State Long Beach (C1), says he won’t abandon his goal of building a U.S. Fitness Academy. . . . Allen wanted to build the academy in Laguna Niguel but couldn’t get funding. . . . Ever optimistic, Allen said Tuesday: “It’s still going. Today we hired an executive director in Chicago to help put on a world (sports) congress.”