Report: Florida Coach Urban Meyer was rushed to hospital hours after losing SEC title game

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ESPN.com is reporting that Florida football Coach Urban Meyer was rushed to the hospital just hours after the Gators lost in the SEC championship game earlier this month.

The Dec. 6 call, obtained Wednesday by ESPN, contradicts an earlier statement from the University of Florida that the coach checked himself into a hospital that morning for dehydration, only later to admit that he also had chest pains.

Meyer’s wife, Shelley, who placed the 911 call, said her husband awoke briefly that morning and tried to get out of bed, but fell to the floor. On the call, Shelley Meyer said he was breathing and had a pulse but would not wake up and that he had been taking the sleeping pill Ambien.

Meyer has refused to elaborate on his health problems, and declined to answer on Sunday when asked if doctors advised him to stop coaching.

-- Houston Mitchell