{"id":103298,"date":"2016-06-28T07:00:32","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T12:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=103298"},"modified":"2016-06-28T13:46:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T18:46:25","slug":"legendary-coach-pat-summit-passes-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=103298","title":{"rendered":"Legendary coach, Pat Summit, passes, 64"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Summitt-Pat1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-103319\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Summitt-Pat1-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Summitt-Pat1\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Summitt-Pat1-300x202.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Summitt-Pat1-260x175.jpg 260w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Summitt-Pat1.jpg 445w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2013 Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history who helped boost the women\u2019s game to the big time in a 38-year career at Tennessee, has died at 64.<\/p>\n<p>With an icy glare on the sidelines, Summitt led the Lady Vols to eight national championships and prominence on a campus steeped in the traditions of the football-rich south until she retired in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Her son, Tyler Summitt, issued a statement Tuesday morning saying his mother died peacefully at Sherrill Hill Senior Living in Knoxville surrounded by those who loved her most.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler\u2019s statement said \u201csince 2011, my mother has battled her toughest opponent, early onset dementia, \u2018Alzheimer\u2019s Type\u2019 \u2026 and we can all find peace in knowing she no longer carries the heavy burden of this disease. \u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) \u2013 Pat Summitt, the winningest coach in Division I college basketball history who helped boost the women\u2019s game to the big time in a 38-year career at Tennessee, has died at 64. With an icy glare on the sidelines, Summitt led the Lady Vols to eight national [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":103317,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103298"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103298\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103320,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103298\/revisions\/103320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/103317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}