INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The NCAA will honor six former athletes, including Sean Payton, David Robinson and Tim Brown, as Silver Anniversary Award winners for their contributions to intercollegiate athletics on Friday night.
Kevin Johnson, Doris Burke and Amy Perko also will be recognized during the 2012 Honors Celebration.
Payton, coach of the New Orleans Saints, had planned to attend, but his team has a playoff game at San Francisco on Saturday. Robinson played college basketball at Navy and is a two-time gold medalist. Brown won the Heisman Trophy for Notre Dame in 1987.
Johnson, who played college basketball at Cal, is the mayor of Sacramento. Burke, a former Providence basketball player, is an ESPN broadcaster. Perko, a former Wake Forest basketball player, is the executive director of the Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics.
