Conference USA teams to honor late former CUSA, SEC commissioner Mike Slive with helmet sticker
By Andrew Olson
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Former SEC commissioner Mike Slive passed in May 2018. His influence impact on the SEC was recognized at this summer’s SEC Media Days. But the SEC wasn’t the only conference in which Slive served as commissioner.
Before becoming commissioner of the SEC in 2002, Slive served as the first ever commissioner of Conference USA, beginning in 1995. The conference announced this week that teams will sport a Slive Foundation helmet sticker in his memory.
“My father would be honored by how Commissioner MacLeod and all the members of Conference USA have chosen to recognize him this fall. His legacy within intercollegiate athletics will be felt for many years to come, but I don’t know if he ever realized that he will now leave another legacy – to help save lives by ending prostate cancer,” Slive’s daughter Anna Slive Harwood said in the announcement. “When we launched the Mike Slive Foundation for Prostate Cancer Research last fall, we knew that we had a special opportunity to utilize the platform of athletics in the fight against prostate cancer. The numbers are sobering. A man dies of prostate cancer every 20 minutes. One in seven men will get prostate cancer in their lifetime. This is our chance to make a difference and be part of the end of prostate cancer. I’m doing this for my father. He was doing this for each of us. He used to say he was doing this so none of us would ever have to go through what he went through.”
Conference USA Football teams will honor former C-USA commissioner Mike Slive and promote prostate cancer awareness in partnership with the Mike Slive Foundation by wearing custom helmet stickers this fall 🏈 #CUSAFB
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— Conference USA (@ConferenceUSA) August 23, 2018
Earlier this year, the SEC donated $100,000 to the Slive Foundation.
Andrew writes about sports to fund his love of live music and collection of concert posters. He strongly endorses the Hall of Fame campaigns of Fred Taylor and Andruw Jones.
