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Pat Summitt's doctors are lucky they are still standing. When the first neurologist told her she had symptoms of early-onset Alzheimer's disease, she almost dropped him with one punch. When a second one advised her to retire immediately, she said, "Do you have any idea who you're dealing with?"
Three months ago, Summitt, 59, the blaze-eyed, clench-fisted University of Tennessee women's basketball coach who has won more games than any other college coach ever, men's or women's, visited the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. seeking an explanation for a troubling series of memory lapses over the past year. A woman who was always highly organized had to ask repeatedly what time a team meeting was scheduled for. "She lost her keys three times a day instead of once," her son Tyler says. She was late to practice. On occasion, she simply stayed in bed.
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