Louis Stout, athletic union leader, dies

LEXINGTON, Ky. -- National Amateur Athletic Union president Louis Stout, who sought to foster a "culture of safety" with the implementation of several reforms, died Sunday at age 73, the organization said.

AAU spokesman Ron Sachs said Stout died at St. Joseph's Hospital in Lexington, Ky.

Stout took over the Amateur Athletic Union after the group's former president, Bobby Dodd, was accused by two former basketball players of molesting them as children in the 1980s. The organization had never faced any abuse allegations before those against the 63-year-old, and he to date has not been charged with a crime.

Stout became commissioner of the Kentucky High School Athletic Association in 1994, becoming the first African-American to head a state high school athletic association in the country. -- AP