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Breitenbach, UW’s right-hand man, dies at 82 (AP)

MADISON � Otto Breitenbach, a former athletics administrator at the University of Wisconsin and commissioner of the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, has died at the age of 82.

Breitenbach had a heart attack Monday while watching the Wisconsin football team play Arkansas in the Capital One Bowl, university officials said. He died Tuesday at St. Mary’s Hospital.