By: E&P Staff Ron Brown, a longtime basketball coach and author of the Bangor (Maine) Daily News' "Time Out" sports column, died Tuesday due to complications from renal failure at the age of 58.
According to the Daily News, Brown first experienced kidney failure in 1984 before undergoing a successful transplant in 1989. The kidney lasted nine years, then failed. He had been undergoing dialysis treatment three times per week since 1998.
A 1973 graduate of the University of Maine, Brown's first coaching job was in 1976 at Central High School in Corinth. For the next 30 years, Brown coached at a series of high schools around Eastern Maine. He also served as head coach of the now-defunct Maine Lumberjacks of the Continental Basketball Association.
In addition to his regular column, Brown authored numerous books on basketball, and served as a color commentator for the Maine Public Broadcasting Network?s coverage of the Eastern Maine high school basketball tournaments.
On Tuesday, the Bangor Daily News ran Brown's final column. In it, Brown said, "If you are following this space today, then you will soon find that my name may be also found on the obituary page.
"Sound a little melodramatic to you? Perhaps. But that?s what a writer does. He writes."
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