Sean Tuohy Entrepreneur, NBA Broadcaster & SEC Basketball Hall of Famer Subject of The Blind Side

“When saw the new kid sitting in the high school gym, he saw a boy with nowhere to go but up. The question was how to take him there.” — from The Blind Side

“Sean was an American success story: he had sweetheart, the former Leigh Anne Roberts, come from nothing and made himself rich,” for 27 years, and they are the proud parents of wrote in The Blind Side, the daughter Collins (23) and sons best-selling book that inspired the major (23) and Sean, Jr. (16). motion picture starring and Sean is also in his ninth season as an NBA Tim McGraw. The Blind Side tells the story of broadcaster for the Memphis Grizzlies, after Michael Oher, a homeless teenager turned first several years as an analyst for radio broadcasts round draft pick NFL football player, with the at Ole Miss as well as national broadcasts for support and love of an unlikely adoptive family: Westwood One and CBS radio. the Tuohys. Sean Tuohy, Michael’s adoptive father, was a record-breaking basketball player In addition to his demanding business, before becoming a successful entrepreneur and broadcasting, school and church schedules (he NBA broadcaster. also helped to create one of the fastest growing evangelical churches in Memphis, the Grace Sean Tuohy knew what it meant to be the Evangelical Church) Sean is heavily involved poor kid in a private school—he had been one in supporting several minority students at himself. Raised in New Orleans, Tuohy’s father Briarcrest Christian School. “It’s easy to beat coached basketball at the prestigious Isidore a kid up. The hard thing is to build him up,” Newman School. After his father suffered a Sean says. With that philosophy in mind, Sean massive stroke, Sean continued to attend the and Leigh Anne brought Michael into their private school, where he found himself on his home, supported him through school, and own more than he ever anticipated. eventually adopted him as their son. With sports as his “meal ticket” through high At the podium, Sean invites audiences to go school and college, Sean left New Orleans for behind-the-scenes of the Tuohy household the University of Mississippi on a basketball with a heartwarming message: “In our house, scholarship. When Sean walked off the court we believe in miracles.” Sharing personal after his final game, he had shattered every anecdotes with his signature southern charm, major SEC assists-related record and become Sean brings to life. From a legend in the SEC hall of fame for leading The Blind Side the perspective of a dedicated father and the Ole Miss Rebels to their first and only Suggested inspirational coach, Sean asks all of us to Championship. consider a simple question: how many other Speech Topics Drafted by the NBA’s New Jersey Nets in kids just like Michael Oher are falling through Behind The Blind Side: 1982, he opted to continue his career overseas the cracks every day? And how can we make an Overcoming Obstacles in before returning to the US to be with his impact big enough to change a broken system? the Face of Adversity father in his final days. He became a successful entrepreneur, building a company that now Solving the Failure owns and operates 70 fast food restaurants, Epidemic: How Often Do including Taco Bell and Long John Silver’s. We Let Unrealized Potential Sean has been married to his college cheerleader Slip Through the Cracks?

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