This Day in Sports

In an unprecedented move, a three-team trade that

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George Karl becomes the seventh coach in NBA

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April 27, 2010: Mark A. Emmert, president of the University of Washington, is named the fifth NCAA president. He takes over the office’s duties Oct. 5, 2010.

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2010: The reach and visibility of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship expands with the announcement of a new 14-year, $10.8 billion television, Internet and wireless rights agreement with CBS Sports and Turner Broadcasting System.

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March 17-20, 2010: Emory wins the first of 10 straight team titles in the Division III Women’s Swimming and Diving Championships.

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Sept. 16, 2009: President Myles Brand dies of cancer. James L. Isch, formerly an NCAA senior vice president and chief financial officer, is later named interim president.

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2009: Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia, becomes the NCAA’s first member school outside the United States, joining Division II.

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April 17-18, 2009: Georgia’s Courtney Kupets wins four individual titles to bring her career total to a record nine titles in the National Collegiate Women’s Gymnastics Championships.

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April 6, 2009: An NCAA Division I men’s basketball tournament record crowd of 72,922 attends the championship game of the Men’s Final Four at Ford Field in Detroit. North Carolina defeats Michigan State 89-72 to win the national championship. The attendance for the national semifinals two days earlier was 72,456.

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The Los Angeles Lakers defeated the Boston Celtics

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