Michael Jordan, who led the Chicago Bulls to the NBA crown last season and was named league and playoff MVP, was named Monday the Associated Press Male Athlete of the Year for 1991. "My God, Athlete of the Year," Jordan said. "I never expected it. I'm very surprised since I thought all the awards had been handed out." Jordan is only the second basketball player to win in the 61-year history of the award. Larry Bird won in 1986. Jordan had 348 points to 134 for long jumper Mike Powell and 80 for two-time Male Athlete of the Year Carl Lewis. Horse racing: Angel Cordero Jr., the most seriously injured of four jockeys involved in a chain-reaction spill Sunday at Aqueduct, remained in intensive care Monday at Long Island Jewish Hospital. Cordero, 49, broke his right arm and three ribs. Spring football: The Tampa Bay Outlaws of the new Professional Spring Football League selected their first 52 potential players Monday during two separate drafts in Las Vegas. Defensive end John Cannon, linebacker Keith Browner and kicker Donald Igwebuike were the ex-Buccaneers picked during the territorial draft. Among the other notable picks were former FSU and Tampa Bay Storm quarterback Chip Ferguson and Dunedin High graduate and former UF wide receiver Stacey Simmons. The team will draft again today and Wednesday (complete list, this page). Skiing: Patrice Bianchi of France won the men's slalom in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, on Monday for his first World Cup victory. Italian star Alberto Tomba, who was overtaken by Paul Accola of Switzerland for the overall World Cup lead, finished third. Bobsledding: Edwin Moses has decided to pass up a second chance to make the U.S. Olympic bobsled team, instead saying Monday he will concentrate on training for the hurdles in the Summer Olympics. An arbitrator ruled over the weekend that the U.S. bobsled team wasn't picked fairly and ordered a new round of tryouts. Olympics: Top officials of the IOC agreed tentatively in Lausanne, Switzerland, to plans for the former Soviet team in the Winter Games. Francois Carrard, director general of the IOC, said "we can only confirm that we are going toward one team, one delegation, one uniform. The situation is developing at such a pace that we must be monitoring it practically every day." Meanwhile, world and European bodies meeting in Zurich, recognized the soccer federation formed by eight former Soviet republics. Baseball: Commissioner Fay Vincent on Monday endorsed plans by a Milwaukee area business group to help put the Brewers in a new baseball stadium and boost the franchise's financial health. "I came to put some emphasis, some underscoring, on the matters," he said. "I support the efforts here to give some strength to the Milwaukee franchise." The Giants signed outfielder Cory Snyder to a minor-league contract. Et cetera: Britain's Fatima Whitbread, former world champion and record-holder in the women's javelin, has retired because of recurring injuries to her throwing shoulder. Virginia (13-0) was just two points short of being a unanimous No.1 pick in this week's Associated Press women's college basketball poll. Lawyers for former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson asked a judge to broaden the pool of potential jurors for his Jan.27 rape trial in Indianapolis. Jurors are drawn from voter registration lists, but Tyson's attorneys say that method draws too few minorities. _ Compiled by Pete Couture.