NCAA president Myles Brand dead

NCAA president Myles Brand dead

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA president Myles Brand, who while leading Indiana University fired basketball coach Bob Knight, died Wednesday afternoon from pancreatic cancer. He was 67.
The first former university president ever to run college sports’ largest governing body, Brand also worked to change the perception that wins supersede academics and earned accolades for his efforts.
Brand broke the news that he had cancer in January at the NCAA convention and continued to run the organization’s day-to-day operations, despite undergoing treatment. The NCAA announced his death. Officials were not ready to say who would replace Brand or when they may begin searching for a successor.

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