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04-20-2010, 06:07 PM
Colorado Rockies baseball team president found dead
By the CNN Wire Staff
April 20, 2010 2:04 p.m. EDT
(CNN) -- Colorado Rockies President Keli McGregor was found dead Tuesday morning in a Salt Lake City, Utah, hotel, police said.
Police received a call shortly before 9 a.m. that a man was found unconscious in a room at the Grand America Hotel. Medics tried to revive him, police said.
The cause of the death is unknown.
McGregor, 48, has been the National League baseball team's president since October 18, 2001, according to a biography on the team's website.
The biography says McGregor began working with the Rockies in October 1993 as senior director of operations and was promoted to senior vice president in 1996 and executive vice president in 1998.
McGregor joined the Rockies after working as an associate athletic director at the University of Arkansas for four years.
He was a two-time All-American tight end at Colorado State and was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round (110th overall) of the 1985 NFL draft. He played for Denver, Indianapolis and Seattle football teams before retiring.
He also coached football at the University of Florida for two seasons, in 1988 and 1989.
The online biography says McGregor lived in Golden, Colorado. He and his wife have four children.
He was born in Primghar, Iowa, and raised in Colorado.
By the CNN Wire Staff
April 20, 2010 2:04 p.m. EDT
(CNN) -- Colorado Rockies President Keli McGregor was found dead Tuesday morning in a Salt Lake City, Utah, hotel, police said.
Police received a call shortly before 9 a.m. that a man was found unconscious in a room at the Grand America Hotel. Medics tried to revive him, police said.
The cause of the death is unknown.
McGregor, 48, has been the National League baseball team's president since October 18, 2001, according to a biography on the team's website.
The biography says McGregor began working with the Rockies in October 1993 as senior director of operations and was promoted to senior vice president in 1996 and executive vice president in 1998.
McGregor joined the Rockies after working as an associate athletic director at the University of Arkansas for four years.
He was a two-time All-American tight end at Colorado State and was drafted by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round (110th overall) of the 1985 NFL draft. He played for Denver, Indianapolis and Seattle football teams before retiring.
He also coached football at the University of Florida for two seasons, in 1988 and 1989.
The online biography says McGregor lived in Golden, Colorado. He and his wife have four children.
He was born in Primghar, Iowa, and raised in Colorado.