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Brand brings just the right touch

By Pat Forde
ESPN.com

Thursday, April 2, 2009

DETROIT -- During the men's basketball Detroit Regional in March 2008, I looked up at a food court at our hotel to see NCAA president Myles Brand eating a sandwich and reading the newspaper, alone and unbothered in a crowd. The normalcy of it struck me because nothing in sports seems to strip a person of his/her humanity more than working for the NCAA. The NCAA's first executive director, Walter Byers, spent decades walling off himself and his organization from the public. The testament to hi ...

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