Boat has been located by the Coast Guard with one of the men clinging to it according to breaking news from Fox (everything is a news alert to them, but this one really is) Found at 11:30 am off the Florida coast, no published details yet available.
Boat found off Fla.; unsure if NFL players aboard
My Way News - : "TAMPA, Fla. (AP) - The Coast Guard says it has found a person clinging to an overturned boat off Florida's Gulf Coast but did not confirm whether it is the one missing with two NFL players aboard.
Corey Smith, a free-agent defensive end who played for the Detroit Lions last season, and Marquis Cooper, an Oakland Raiders linebacker, are two of the four people aboard the boat that didn't return from a fishing trip Saturday.
Petty Officer Sondra-Kay Kneen says searchers located an overturned boat Monday but provided no further details.
The men were reported missing Sunday. The Coast Guard has searched about 16,000 square miles of ocean for the 21-foot boat.
THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below."
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original post below from Sunday afternoon
Definitely a strange occurrence here as two millionaire NFL football stars among others are presently considered missing from their boating excursion today on the Florida Gulf. Here are the two men in question, Detroit's Corey Smith and the Raiders' Marquis Cooper, former teammates in Tampa Bay.
Agent: NFL players Corey Smith, Marquis Cooper among group of missing boaters off Florida
chicagotribune.com: "CLEARWATER, Fla. (AP) — Detroit Lions defensive end Corey Smith and Oakland Raiders linebacker Marquis Cooper were among four boaters missing Sunday off Florida's Gulf Coast, the Coast Guard and Smith's agent said.
Smith and Cooper were on a 21-foot vessel that left Clearwater Pass on Saturday morning for a fishing trip and did not return as expected, the Coast Guard said Sunday. Crews used a helicopter and a 47-foot boat to search a 750-square mile area west of Clearwater Pass on Sunday.
Cooper owned the boat and he and Smith had been on fishing trips before, said Ron Del Duca, Smith's agent. The pair had been teammates on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2004."
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