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News Nuggets, 07.10.05
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Lyme Disease sidelines FSU QB for 2005 season
TALLAHASSEE — Wyatt Sexton,
the Florida State quarterback who was found disheveled and disoriented on a
city street last month, has been diagnosed with Lyme disease and will miss
the upcoming season, the university said Saturday.
Florida State coach Bobby
Bowden said the university would seek a sixth year of eligibility for
Sexton, who has already used his redshirt season. He is the Seminoles' only
experienced quarterback.
``It looks like Wyatt will
need several months of treatment and will have to miss the season,'' Bowden
said in a statement.
A specialist in the field of
Lyme disease, Dr. S. Chandra Swami from Hermitage, PA, said Sexton's organs
have been infected and recommended intensive antibiotic therapy over a
period of months.
``Wyatt has active Lyme
Disease that has resulted in neuropsychiatric and cardiovascular deficits,''
Dr. Swami said.
The disease is curable, but
the estimated recovery time for his advanced stage of infection is several
months. If untreated, the disease can cause joint swelling and brain
inflammation.
``We expect him to fully
recover,'' Sexton's parents, Billy and Joy, said in a statement in the
school's release. Billy Sexton is the running backs coach for the Seminoles.
The Seminoles will now choose
between a pair of redshirt freshmen, Drew Weatherford and Xavier Lee, as the
starting quarterback for their nationally televised season opener Sept. 5
against Miami. The team begins its preseason practice Aug. 9.
``It may come down to flipping
a coin as to who starts the season,'' Bowden said.
Wyatt Sexton was the projected
starter at quarterback. He played in 10 games in 2004, completing 55.2
percent of his passes for 1,661 yards and eight touchdowns. He also had
eight interceptions.
On June 14, the 20-year-old
Sexton was doused by pepper spray and taken to a hospital after he was found
lying in the street and identifying himself as God. His parents released a
statement two days later that said drug abuse was not the problem.
Lyme disease bacteria are
transmitted to humans by ticks that are carried by deer.
The disease is often
identified by an expanding ``bull's-eye'' rash that develops days to weeks
after a tick bite. Other symptoms include tiredness, fever, muscle aches and
joint pain.
The Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in Atlanta said there are an increasing number of
cases that are attributed to growing populations of deer that support deer
ticks, more homes being built in wooded areas and better recognition and
reporting of the disease, named in 1977 when a cluster was identified in
Lyme, CT.
In addition to Sexton, the
Seminoles could also be without two linebackers, Ernie Sims and A.J.
Nicholson, for the Miami game because of recent run-ins with the law.
Florida State was 9-3 in 2004,
but failed to win the Atlantic Coast Conference title for just the second
time in 13 seasons, and wound up ranked 15th — its fourth straight year
outside the Top 10 in the final Associated Press poll.
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published by ECU, Conference USA and its member
schools; and reports from Associated Press and
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