Ex-Florida coach Fuller dies
Dave Fuller, the winningest baseball coach in University of Florida history, has died. He was 94. Fuller died Tuesday at North Florida Regional Hospital in Gainesville.
Fuller guided the Florida baseball program from 1948 to 1975, compiling a 557-354-6 record and winning three Southeastern Conference championships (1952, 1956, 1962).
He also was a member of the football staff for 29 years (1948-76), the longest run of any assistant coach in school history. Fuller served in many capacities as head freshman coach, varsity assistant, head scout and a key recruiter under head coaches Bob Woodruff, Ray Graves and Doug Dickey.
NCAA’s Brand dies: The NCAA says Myles Brand, 67, has died after battling pancreatic cancer.
The university president turned NCAA chief who pushed for tighter academic standards in college sports and took on Bob Knight died Wednesday.
It’s the first time a sitting NCAA president has died.
Brand announced he had cancer in January at the NCAA convention and continued to run the organization’s day-to-day operations.