Brand: 'A friend in the justice world'

Date of Release: September 17, 2009 (Special to ESPN.com)
by Richard Lapchick
America lost a champion for student-athletes, for Title IX and for civil rights in sports with the passing of Dr. Myles Brand on Wednesday. No one did more to make college sport live up to its ideals. We knew he’d been fighting deadly pancreatic cancer since January, but no one was ready when the announcement of his passing came. More…