Urban Meyer Hospitalized With Chest Pains

According to SEC Sports Hub, Urban Meyer was hospitalized due to some severe chest pains.

Meyer was taken to the Shands Hospital in Gainesville but has been released according to a source in the Florida athletic department.

How quick did they get back?  I mean the game ended around 7:30/8:00.  They must have packed up quick in Atlanta.  Even flying back, they couldn’t have got back much earlier than 11:00 PM.  It’s also being said that he checked himself into the hospital from other sites.

SEC Sports Hub also went on to mention it is known that Meyer has a cyst on his brain that causes extreme pain when stressed out.  It’s not hard to assume that the game last night against Alabama is what caused the extreme stress from Meyer.  We’ll keep you updated with more info as we get it.

Urban Meyer was released shortly after checking in.

UPDATE:

According to a Florida spokesperson, Meyer was treated for dehydration, but is doing “OK” now.

Memo To Tim Tebow Haters

Don’t hate on Tim Tebow crying. He cries because he cares about the team. He cries because he knows we didn’t do as well as we could. He cries because he gives a damn. He’s not a sissy or (excuse my language) pussy, he’s a man that doesn’t care about showing his emotions. Get over it haters!

Florida Gators Remake “Thriller” for Halloween

The Florida Gators remake “Thriller” for halloween:

UF student Kristin Giannas (Telecom-News in the house!) pulled off a nearly impossible feat; getting a bunch of UF athletes to participate in something and videotaping it. Try picking out all the athletes Miss Giannas is able pull together as they perform ‘Thriller’ with Albert and Alberta.

Video created by Kristin Giannas.

Florida Gator Women’s Lacrosse Underway

That’s right… Florida Gators now has a women’s lacrosse team.  The team started with two exhibition games today with a big wins of 22 – 4 and 27 – 6 in both games today.

Florida will take next weekend off before traveling north for the prestigious Princeton Fall Tournament on Oct. 17. They will play five 30-minute running clock games against five of the NCAA Quarterfinalists from 2009, including NCAA runner-up North Carolina and five-time defending national champion Northwestern. The Gators will also play Syracuse, Penn and Princeton.

Find information about the Lady Gator Lacrosse team at Gator Zone

Surprised to hear about UF having a women’s lacrosse team?  Well it’s been in the works for quite some time and it looks like we’re off to recruiting just as well as other sports as the Gators received the #1 ranking class from Lacrosse Magazine.

U.F. Women’s Lacrosse Timeline
2005-06	• Identify needs (funding, facility, scheduling, staff)
2006-07	• Fundraising • Facility Planning • Secure league affiliation • Construct offices for coaches
2007-08	• Hire coaching staff • Facility construction • Recruiting • Purchase lacrosse equipment
2008-09	• Complete facility • Complete inaugural season schedule • Recruit and sign student-athletes

Tim Tebow on His Way Home

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Tim Tebow has been discharged from the hospital in Kentucky and is headed back to Gainesville. From head coach Urban Meyer:

“Tim is doing fine this morning. His CT scans came back and indicated that Tim suffered a concussion. Our medical and athletic training staff will continue to monitor him to determine how much rest and recovery he needs.”

Thanks to all for your concern and support. Go Gators!

Florida Volleyball Loses First Game of 2009

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From Gator Zone

The No. 3/3 University of Washington volleyball team turned in a complete effort, holding No. 4/4 Florida to an .067 hitting efficiency, to post a 3-0 win (25-17, 25-10, 25-19) win against the Gators on Saturday in the Tampa Twice Tournament, hosted by the University of South Florida at its Sun Dome.

The Gators (6-1) were led for the fourth consecutive match by sophomore outside hitter Colleen Ward (Naperville, Ill.), who turned in a team-high seven kills to complement two blocks for a squad-best 8.0 points. Washington (8-0) posted its eighth consecutive sweep of the season with the victory.

The Huskies hit .359 in the match and out-blocked the Gators 7.0-4.0. Washington also had three players record double-figure dig performances.

“What makes Washington so good, besides how talented they are, is that they make very few mistakes,” Florida head coach Mary Wisesaid. “Their numbers all season and their numbers today reflect that. There is a huge gap right now between how Washington played today and where the Gators are today. Our goal is to get back to work, starting tomorrow, and to narrow that gap so that the next time we play a team as talented as Washington, we will be in the match.”

Sophomore right-side/setter Kelly Murphy (Wilmington, Ill.) added six kills and tied junior setter Brynja Rodgers (Iowa City, Iowa) with a team-high 12 assists. Sophomore middle blocker Cassandra Anderson (Bakersfield, Calif.) led Florida in blocks with three.

Senior libero Elyse Cusack (Melrose, Fla.), who has posted double-figure digs in each of the team’s matches this season and ranks No. 4 on the Southeastern Conference’s all-time career digs list, recorded a squad-best 13 digs in the match.

Sophomore outside hitter Kristy Jaeckel (Littleton, Colo.) added nine digs and four kills for the Gators.

The two teams battled evenly to begin the opening set before back-to-back kills by Washington’s Becky Perry and Jill Collymore gave the Huskies an early 8-6 advantage. Trailing 11-8, Florida got a kill from Ward and benefitted from a ball-handling error by Washington to cut within one at 11-10.

Still ahead by one at 12-11, Washington scored three points in a row to go up 15-11 and force Wise to burn a timeout. That was the beginning of a 12-2 run by Washington, which reached set point at 24-13. Florida staved off four attempts at match point before the Huskies’ Airial Salvo recorded a kill to give UW a 25-17 first-set win.

Washington raced out to a 4-1 lead in the second set before a kill by Jaeckel stopped the scoring streak. Following that kill, the Huskies ran off seven consecutive points leading into a Florida timeout to go up 11-2. The Gators twice cut within seven, the last at 14-6 on an illegal rotation call against Washington. That was the beginning of a 7-0 run that extended the Huskies’ lead to 19-6. Washington continued on to a 25-10 second-set victory.

The Gators used two kills from Murphy and a pair of blocks to jump out to an early 4-1 advantage in the third set. With Florida head by three, 5-2 after a Murphy kill, back-to-back Gator attack errors brought Washington to within one, 5-4. The Huskies kept rallying to knot the score at 6-6. An ace by Collymore and a kill by the Huskies put them in front 8-6. Back-to-back put-downs by Jaeckel again knotted the score, this time at 8-8.

With Washington leading 10-9 after a Johnson kill, the Huskies ran off two in a row to go back up by three, 12-9. UW kept rolling to a 14-10 advantage heading into a Florida timeout. With the Huskies ahead 18-11, the Gators scored two in a row after a Murphy kill and an attack error by Collymore to cut within five, 18-13. The two teams traded points to put Washington up 22-15 before seniorKristina Johnson (Indianapolis, Ind.) notched a kill and Rodgers followed with an ace. Continuing to trade points, the Huskies took a 25-19 win in the third set.

Florida returns to action on Friday when it opens Southeastern Conference play at Ole Miss. Opening serve is set for 8 p.m. ET and the match will be carried live on ROCK 104 FM with Cory Stephens.

UF Beats Colorado in Soccer

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From Gator Sports

UF soccer coach Becky Burleigh said after Friday’s victory over Duke that her team is built to play better in the second half. Sunday, at home against No. 20 Colorado, Mother Nature helped the No. 14 Gators get an early start.

After a back-and-forth match through 39 minutes, the sun ducked behind darkened clouds and the rain fell. With the field forming puddles and turning into its own version of the swamp, Florida glided to a 3-1 victory.

Two minutes after the first rain drops fell, Holly King took a throw-in from defender Jazmyne Avant near the right sideline. The freshman King turned on a Buffaloes defender and fired a long 25-yard shot that bent over keeper Kara Linder and fell into the far-left side of the net, giving King her first collegiate goal.

“I knew the keeper was off of her line, so I had to get it over her head,” King said. “I just turned and shot it and got it right where I wanted it.”

Moments after the goal the rain disappeared, leaving behind a soaked field that kept the ball wet and the air increasingly humid. That didn’t stop the Gators from compiling their typical strong play in the second half, but it seemed to drain the energy from Colorado.

Three minutes into the second period, freshman Erika Tymrak took a pass from roommate Brooke Thigpen and launched an 18-yard straight shot into the hands of Linder, who bobbled the sure-catch into the air, over her head and onto the ground. Linder dropped down as the ball approached the goal line and attempted to clear it out, but inadvertently pushed the ball in as it straddled the line. The goal was credited to Tymrak on a goalie miscue, but nearly was ruled an own-goal.

“The ball was definitely wet (in the second half),” said Gator keeper Katie Fraine. “… The balls that we use skip when they’re wet instead of rolling. I had to remind myself of that.”

Senior Lindsay Thompson scored the third goal for Florida (5-2) in the 54th minute on a long breakaway run that finished with a 15-yard shot to the left of Linder. The goal was Thompson’s second of the weekend.

Colorado (4-3) negated the shutout in the 80th minute when Kate Russell put in a 32-yard free kick against a group of Gator reserves, including backup keeper Kendall Graham.

“For some of our players, it was their first game action ever and I never thought that would have happened against a team as good as Colorado,” Burleigh said. “That says a lot about our team that we could be in that position.”

No 6 Florida Soccer Loses in OT

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Courtesy of Gator Sports

The No. 6 Florida soccer team lost 2-1 in double overtime to Indiana on Friday at Armstrong Stadium.

The teams came into the match undefeated and the Hoosiers hadn’t given up a goal in the 2009 campaign.

The first goal of the match came off an IU free kick in the 58th minute. Chloe McKay took the 35-yard kick and sent the ball into the box where Devon Beach headed it in from 10 yards for her second goal of the season.

The match was tied in the 62nd minute off an IU (4-0) own goal. Florida’s Angela Napolitano centered the ball from deep in the Hoosier half. IU defender Kerri Krawczak tried to clear the ball, but it went back toward the IU goal. Hoosier goalkeeper Lindsay Campbell tried to catch the ball, but it slipped through her fingers and into the goal. The score ended Campbell’s scoreless streak, which started in the 2008 season, at 562:17 minutes.

In the 67th minute, a bouncing ball was loose in the box. Florida’s Lindsay Thompson and Campbell both were moving at full speed when they collided in the box. The collision left Campbell down on the field and she was replaced in goal by junior Lauren Hollandsworth.

The match was the first overtime contest of the season for either team. The only shot credited to either team in overtime was the game-winner by IU’s Leigh Anne Cummings. She was led by a pass from Beach and Cumming’s sharp right shot from 15 yards was the golden goal in the 115th minute. It was the first overtime loss for the Gators since losing 1-0 to Illinois in 2005 NCAA opening round action.

“This was a game where we never got on track. We were never in rhythm. Our game is about completing passes and possession and we were never able to do that consistently,” UF coach Becky Burleigh said. “We need to find a way to win when we are not connecting passes. It wasn’t just one person — we just weren’t in rhythm. Our game depends on rhythm and we struggled with that.”

This was the first match that Gator senior Ashlee Elliott hadn’t appeared in since early in 2007 — a stretch of 45 consecutive appearances for UF, including 43 starts. Elliott tore her left anterior cruciate ligament in the Aug. 30 Florida-USF match and will miss the remainder of the season.

“Having Ashlee helps from a leadership standpoint and from a depth standpoint because she is a presence that other teams had to deal with. But that (not having Elliott) isn’t why we lost the game,” Burleigh said. “We lost the game because we couldn’t connect passes. When you give the ball away, bad things happen.”

Florida (3-1) continues its Midwest road trip with a match vs. No. 9 UCLA (1-1-1) on Sunday in Champaign, Ill. Match time is set for noon.

Gator Country – New Magazine

Gator Country Multimedia, Inc. has a new magazine partner and that’s good news for customers and fans, who will be the beneficiaries of expanded coverage.

A powerful new alliance with Doug Cifers and Florida Monthly Magazine will expand the Gator Country horizons significantly, boosting the circulation and size of the No. 1 Florida Gator publication, widening distribution across the state, increasing visibility and promotion significantly and providing revenues to catapult Gator Country Magazine to an entirely new level.

This was the first couple paragraphs of a post on Gator Country.  This is huge for coverage of Gator sports in general.  Not only do we get 2 more prints a year for no extra cost!!!(from 10 to 12)  This combined effort of Gator Country and Florida Monthly will allow the resources of each side do what they do best and maximize the potential.

The magazine is also going to have more pages on each edition and they won’t be all ads… it will be more content for Gator fans to read.  Not only does this combined effort give us more editions and more coverage… they will be available at major stores like Publix (That’s a Grocery store for you northern Gator fans) and Barnes & Nobles (that’s a book store for you Tennessee fans…. books are what you read to get smarter… smarter is ehh forget it).

Raymond Hines III, Publisher/Owner and Buddy Martin, CEO and Executive Editor of Gator Country had this to say:

“This is one of the most exciting moments for Gator Country that we’ve had in our 14 years,” said Publisher/Owner Raymond Hines III. “Doug’s expertise in publishing brings us the tools we have always needed to achieve the excellence we have only been able to dream about before. He is not only the ideal partner as a businessman, but he and his wife Kristen are exceptional people.”

The new alliance has supercharged the Gator Country team members.

“I can second that motion,” said Gator Country CEO and Executive Editor Buddy Martin, “because in the few short weeks I’ve dealt with Doug and Kristen, I have experienced first hand the excitement and enthusiasm they exhibit about publishing Gator Country Magazine. The only thing that surpasses it is their passion for the Gator athletic program and their dreams of another championship season.”

At this time no digital version is available but the article did mention that it was in the works for users to be able to get it online.  Members will continue receive their copies as part of the VIP package or separately as a magazine. Annual print subscriptions remain $39.97.

ESPN and SEC Strike a Monster Deal

ESPN Regional Television, the new over-the-air syndication home for Southeastern Conference programming, and the SEC announced on Tuesday a regionally-syndicated college sports package that will air in more than 73 television markets, along with the branding of the syndication package as the SEC Network – all part of the groundbreaking 15-year agreement between ESPN, Inc., and the SEC.

Full story at Gator Zone

So what does this mean?

Within the 9 state footprint of the SEC network, it would air on the over-the-air stations of the SEC event. In areas that don’t fall inside the SEC “footprint”, it would air on air on local, over the air TV stations or regionial sports networks.

“As ESPN moves forward in this landmark agreement with the SEC, ESPN Regional Television is thrilled to provide our viewers with a consistent window for Southeastern Conference football and basketball,” said Pete Derzis, senior vice president & general manager, ESPN Regional Television. “With ESPN’s multimedia platforms, we anticipate SEC sports will touch an unprecedented base of college fans nationwide.”

The deal is set to start in the 2009 – 10 season for 15 years.

“The SEC Network, through the efforts of ESPN, will be the largest college sports syndication television package in the country,” SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said. “The comprehensive market coverage in the nine-state SEC area combined with the out-of-market reach gives us significant additional exposure for our programs.”

Below is a list of schools and stations for further breakdown:

SEC Network Markets (confirmed as of release date)

State	City	Station(s)	Affiliation
Alabama	Birmingham-Tuscaloosa-Anniston	WTTO; WABM	CW; MNT
	Dothan	WTVY; WTVY-DT2, -DT3	CBS; MNT; CW
	Huntsville-Decatur (Flor)	WZDX; WAMY	FOX; MNT
	Mobile-Pensacola (Ft Walt)	WJTC	IND
	Montgomery (Selma)	WCOV; WCOV-DT2	FOX
Arizona	Phoenix	KTVK (Football only)	IND
Arkansas	Fort Smith-Fay-Sprngdl-Rgrs	KHBS+; KHBS-DT2	ABC; CW
	Jonesboro	KAIT; KAIT-DT2, -DT3	ABC
	Little Rock-Pine Bluff	KATV; KATV-DT2	ABC
Florida	Fort Myers-Naples	WXCW	CW
	Gainesville	WOGX	FOX
	Jacksonville, Brunswick	WJXT	IND
	Miami-Fort Lauderdale	WSFL	CW
	Orlando-Day. Beach-Melbourne	WOFL; WRBW	FOX; MNT
	Panama City	WJHG	MNT
	Tallahassee-Thomasville	WCTV; WCTV-DT2	CBS; MNT
	Tampa-St. Pete, Sarasota	WTTA	MNT
	West Palm Beach-Fort Pierce	TBA
Georgia	Albany	WALB	NBC
	Atlanta	WPCH	IND
	Augusta	WRDW; My 12	CBS; MNT
	Columbus	WXTX; WTVM, WLGA	FOX; ABC; IND
	Macon	WGXA	FOX
	Savannah	WTGS	FOX
Illinois	Chicago	TBA (Football only)
Indiana	Evansville	WTVW	FOX
	Indianapolis	TBA (Football only)
Kansas	Wichita-Hutchinson	KWCH; KSCW	CBS; CW
Kentucky	Bowling Green	WBKO; WBKO-FOX; WBKO-This-TV	ABC; FOX
	Lexington	WKYT; CWkyt	CBS; CW
	Louisville	WAVE	NBC
	Paducah-C.Girard.-Harrbg-Mt VN	WPSD; WPSD-DT2	NBC
Louisiana	Alexandria	KLAX	ABC
	Baton Rouge	WAFB; WBXH	CBS; MNT
	Lafayette	KADN	FOX
	Lake Charles	KVHP	FOX
	Monroe-El Dorado	TBA
	New Orleans	WWL; WUPL	CBS; MNT
	Shreveport	KMSS; KSHV	FOX; MNT
Michigan	Detroit	TBA (Football only)
Missouri	Springfield	KCZ	CW
Mississippi	Biloxi-Gulfport	WXXV; My XXV2	Fox; MNT
	Columbus-Tupelo-West Point	WCBI; My MS	CBS; MNT
	Greenwood-Greenville	WABG; FOX 10	ABC; FOX
	Hattiesburg-Laurel	WHLT; WHLT-DT2	CBS
	Jackson	WJTV; WJTV-DT3	CBS; RTV
	Meridian	WDMN; WGBC; WGBC-DT1	CBS; NBC; FOX
N. Carolina	Charlotte	WAXN	IND
	Greensboro-H.Point-W.Salem	WCWG	CW
	Raleigh-Durham	WNCN; WNCN-DT2	NBC
New York	New York	TBA (Football only)
Ohio	Cincinnati	WSTR	MNT
	Columbus	WTTE	FOX
	Dayton	WRGT	FOX
Oklahoma	Oklahoma City	KSBI	IND
Pennsylvania	Pittsburgh	WPMY (Football only)	MNT
S. Carolina	Charleston	WMMP	MNT
	Columbia	WIS	NBC
	Greenvll-Spart-Ashevll-And	WSPA; WYCW	CBS; CW
	Myrtle Beach-Florence	WWMB; WPDE	CW; ABC
Tennessee	Chattanooga	WDSI; WFLI	FOX; CW
	Jackson	WJKT	FOX
	Knoxville	WVLT;  My VLT2	CBS; MNT
	Memphis	WLMT	CW
	Nashville	WUXP	MNT
	Tri-Cities, TN-VA	WCYB; CW4	NBC; CW
Texas	Beaumont-Port Arthur	KUMY	MNT
	Dallas-Fort Worth	KTXA (Football only)	IND
	Houston	KTBU (Football only)	IND
	San Antonio	KMYS (Football only)	MNT
	Tyler-Longview-Lufkin & Ncgd	KLPN; KFXL	MNT; FOX
Virginia	Norfolk-Portsmouth-NN-Hampton	WSKY	IND
West Virginia	Charleston-Huntington	WSAZ; My ZTV	NBC; MNT

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