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Mississippi State’s head football coach Mike Leach died Monday night after suffering complications from a heart condition, the school announced Tuesday. He was 61.
Leach had what the university initially described as a “personal health issue” at his home in Starkville on Sunday, after which he was airlifted to the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, where he died on Monday.
“Mike was a giving and attentive husband, father and grandfather,” his family said in a statement released by Mississippi State on Tuesday. “He was able to participate in organ donation at UMMC as a final act of charity. We are supported and uplifted by the outpouring of love and prayers from family, friends, Mississippi State University, the hospital staff, and football fans around the world. Thank you for sharing in the joy of our beloved husband and father’s life.”