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Tennessee's Mitchell cleared to play after blackout scare

By Ron Higgins
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, September 6, 2007

It was late in the Tennessee-Cal season opener Saturday, and the Vols were desperately trying to keep the Golden Bears out of the end zone. Tennessee defensive end Xavier Mitchell pursued a ball carrier around the right end, lowered his head as he dove into a crowd and then… Nothing but black. "I ran into [teammate] Eric Berry's hip and knocked myself out," Mitchell said. As Mitchell lay motionless, and as a stretcher finally was brought onto the field and he was ...

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