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'08 VA OL Kyle Long (Florida State baseball - Saddleback College - Oregon signee)

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Kyle Long was checked out thoroughly at UVa Medical Center and released Friday night.

?He?s doing good,? Chris Long said. ?I talked to him last night and everything came back good. He?s back to his usual self. He was home watching [the Virginia] game on TV.?

Still, it made for a worrisome time for Chris Long on the road on Friday, waiting to play the Tar Heels the following afternoon.

?It was in my mind until about 11:30 last night,? Long said. ?That?s when I heard that everything was good. I talked to [Kyle], and dad [Howie Long] was home. I had to hear that. It was very important to me to hear that.?
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DailyProgress.com | UVA FOOTBALL: Once again, Long sets tone for Virginia's defense

Baby bro

Defensive end Chris Long called home last night to see how his two younger brothers' high school game had gone when he got the news that the second oldest Long brother, Kyle, a senior at St. Anne's-Belfield, had been hit awkwardly in the neck against LCA and was taken off the field in an ambulance.

Kyle, a Florida State baseball recruit, is fine. He went home from the hospital last night. Chris talked to him at 11:30 p.m. and it put his mind at ease.

"I had to hear that," said Long, who had four tackles, a sack and his first career interception on Saturday. "It was very important for me to hear that."
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NewsAdvance.com | Virginia Notebook - Getting the job done


Kyle Long might have similar potential, and he, too, attends St. Anne's-Belfield. But he excels in baseball also and has accepted a scholarship offer from Florida State.

Early in the fourth quarter of the St. Anne's football game Friday against Liberty Christian, Kyle crumbled after an apparent blow to the neck. The contest was delayed 30 minutes as trainers secured Kyle and an ambulance ferried him to the hospital.

Not to overdramatize, but neck issues give us all pause, especially after the injury Buffalo Bills tight end Kevin Everett sustained last Sunday.

When Chris checked his cell phone Friday night at Virginia's North Carolina hotel, he noticed his battery was dead. So he headed up his room, called his mom and learned of Kyle's situation.

"Mainly, you just start panicking," Chris said.

It was 10 p.m. Ninety minutes later, Chris got a call back ? Kyle was good to go and able to move all extremities normally.

Better yet, the brothers spoke on the phone. They are beyond close, and Kyle often is visible at Virginia football practices and functions.
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Long the difference for Cavaliers -- dailypress.com


UVa's Long learns brother OK
By Doug Doughty
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- It was Virginia's good fortune that senior defensive end Chris Long was able to approach Saturday's game at North Carolina with a clear head.

Long had a few anxious moments after hearing that his younger brother, Kyle, had been injured Friday night in Charlottesville, Va.

Kyle Long was immobilized and taken from the field in an ambulance after he suffered a neck injury in a football game between St. Anne's-Belfield and visiting Lynchburg Christian.

"I called my mom and I could tell right away that she didn't sound right," said Chris Long, who was at UVa's team hotel Friday night. "It was in my mind till I heard everything was good around 11:30 [p.m. Friday]."

Long said he spoke with his brother Friday night and again on several occasions Saturday morning.

By then, doctors had determined that Kyle Long had suffered a stinger, which is similar to a pinched nerve.
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UVa's Long learns brother OK - Roanoke.com

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[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif] PREP FOOTBALL: K. Long expected to return soon
 [/FONT] [FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]By Sean McLernon / [email protected] | 978-7258[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]September 18, 2007[/FONT]
[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif][/FONT][FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]On Friday night, St. Anne?s-Belfield lineman Kyle Long lay motionless on his home field following a hit to the back of his neck and was eventually carried away in an ambulance. Less than 48 hours later, he was working out on an elliptical machine.[/FONT]


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K. Long ready to play

St. Anne?s-Belfield coach John Blake held star lineman Kyle Long out of Thursday?s win over Trinity Episcopal just to be on the safe side. Long was, after all, carted away by medical personnel after a hit to the back of the net in a Sept. 14 loss to Liberty Christian.

But during the Trinity game, Long looked nothing like an injured player. Long was active on the sidelines - vocally supporting the Saints, tossing the football with teammates during breaks in play and even filling up water bottles. After the contest, when asked whether he would return to field next week, Long responded with an emphatic: ?Yeah, dude? before joining his team to celebrate STAB?s first victory.

Although Long was brought to the University of Virginia Medical Center as a precaution Sept. 14, he was exercising before the end of the weekend and the injury was determined to be just a ?stinger-type thing,? according to STAB coach John Blake.
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DailyProgress.com | PREP FOOOTBALL: Covenant program seeing some growth
 
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DailyProgress.com | PREP FOOTBALL: Saints march past Barons, into final

ST. GEORGE - St. Anne?s-Belfield stuck to a simple strategy in its VISFA Division II semifinal Saturday - run, run, run, and hang on to the ball for a Long time.

And when you have two Longs (Kyle and Howie) it makes it a little easier.

The Saints rode the strength of the brothers, both on the line and in the offensive backfield, to a commanding 39-13 win over Blue Ridge School to advance to next weekend?s championship game.

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?We were able to hold on to the football, which is a big thing for us, which is one of the keys we set out for at the beginning of the game,? Kyle Long said. ?Joe [Chambers] and Jack [Thomasson] did a great job. This was a team effort. It?s great to see guys come together like this at the end of the season.?

The Saints (6-4) got off to a quick start, using all running plays on their first series to score on a 9-yard dash by Thomasson.

The visitors continued to build their lead, as they scored again on their next drive on a beautiful double reverse pass play. Junior quarterback Howie Long hooked up with Kyle Long for the 43-yard scoring strike as the Saints went ahead, 12-0.

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All the better that it worked out this way...
After all... thinking of a line from left to right
Adams... Jenkins... Brewster... Long.... Shugarts...
is sick... sick... sick... flat out illegal... NCAA would not permit it...
they'd have to make a rule to ban this line...
put Prior behind it... throwing to Posey, Torrence and Stoneburner
with Thomas in the back field...
sick I tell you...

but then again, batting against Long can't be a picnic either...
 
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