NCAA president Brand dies of cancer (AP)

Courtesy Yahoo! Sports - Top News  Wed, 09/16/2009 - 15:33

NCAA president Myles Brand, who while leading Indiana University president fired basketball coach Bob Knight, died Wednesday afternoon from pancreatic cancer.

He was 67. As the first former university president ever to run college sports' largest governing body, Brand worked to change the perception that wins supersede academics in college sports.


 

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