BOULDER – Irv Brown, the former University of Colorado baseball coach, collegiate referee and longtime local media personality, passed away early Sunday morning from complications due to a brief illness. He was 83.
His oldest son, Greg, currently an assistant coach at Auburn, relayed that he was diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoma just last Wednesday. He died at a Hospice in Denver.
"The biggest and best thing growing up was that I never had to go outside my home for a hero or a role model," Brown said. "All I had to do was look at my dad every day.