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University of Missouri names Houston’s Mack Rhoades as its next athletic director

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri has named Houston athletic director Mack Rhoades as the school’s new AD, according to the university.

The school’s board of curators held a closed-door meeting on Monday morning. Rhoades succeeds Mike Alden, who announced in January that he’d be stepping down at the end of the summer.

According to reports, the 49-year-old Rhoades was a candidate for Texas A&M’s athletic director opening in 2012 when Missouri chancellor R. Bowen Loftin was president at that school.

Rhoades has been at Houston since 2009.

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