<div class="hd"> <h1>Death of Drew Brees' mother ruled a suicide</h1> <div class="byline"> <div> <div> <p id="byline">
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GRANBY, Colo. (AP)-The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback <span class="ysp-player">Drew Brees(notes)</span> has been ruled a suicide.</p>
Mina Brees, an attorney from Austin, Texas, died Aug. 7 while visiting Colorado. Grand County coroner Brenda Bock concluded this week that the 59-year-old Brees died of a prescription drug overdose and ruled the death a suicide.</p> <div id="sidebar"></div>
Bock said Brees died while staying at the home of a friend in Granby near Rocky Mountain National Park.</p>
It took longer than three months for autopsy results to be released, but Bock said that's typical for cases involving toxicology tests.</p>
The Austin American Statesman reported that three days before Brees died, the Texas attorney general's office subpoenaed her business records.</p>
She had allegedly sent letters to some restaurants in Austin and Houston stating that they had lost their rights to use their names to a company she represented, Chicksports, but they could win the rights back by paying up to $25,000. She was also the president of Chicksports but that wasn't mentioned in the letter.</p>
Relations between Drew Brees and his mother were strained at times and the quarterback asked her to stop using his picture in TV commercials touting her candidacy for a Texas appeals court seat in 2006.</p>
Mina Brees said she had not anticipated upsetting her son and sent out replacement commercials omitting mention of him.</p>
At the time, Drew Brees called his relationship with his mother "nonexistent," saying it crumbled six years earlier when he refused to hire her as his agent.</p>
Austin attorney Marty Akins, the brother of Minda Brees, declined comment late Friday.</p>
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GRANBY, Colo. (AP)-The death of the mother of New Orleans Saints quarterback <span class="ysp-player">Drew Brees(notes)</span> has been ruled a suicide.</p>
Mina Brees, an attorney from Austin, Texas, died Aug. 7 while visiting Colorado. Grand County coroner Brenda Bock concluded this week that the 59-year-old Brees died of a prescription drug overdose and ruled the death a suicide.</p> <div id="sidebar"></div>
Bock said Brees died while staying at the home of a friend in Granby near Rocky Mountain National Park.</p>
It took longer than three months for autopsy results to be released, but Bock said that's typical for cases involving toxicology tests.</p>
The Austin American Statesman reported that three days before Brees died, the Texas attorney general's office subpoenaed her business records.</p>
She had allegedly sent letters to some restaurants in Austin and Houston stating that they had lost their rights to use their names to a company she represented, Chicksports, but they could win the rights back by paying up to $25,000. She was also the president of Chicksports but that wasn't mentioned in the letter.</p>
Relations between Drew Brees and his mother were strained at times and the quarterback asked her to stop using his picture in TV commercials touting her candidacy for a Texas appeals court seat in 2006.</p>
Mina Brees said she had not anticipated upsetting her son and sent out replacement commercials omitting mention of him.</p>
At the time, Drew Brees called his relationship with his mother "nonexistent," saying it crumbled six years earlier when he refused to hire her as his agent.</p>
Austin attorney Marty Akins, the brother of Minda Brees, declined comment late Friday.</p>
