{"id":562291,"date":"2026-03-26T15:15:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562291\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T15:15:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:15:07","slug":"stick-to-swimming-alligator-stuck-in-soccer-net-rescued-in-manatee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/562291\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stick to swimming&#8217;: Alligator stuck in soccer net rescued in Manatee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;This gator took the Gators&#8217; loss in the NCAA basketball tournament hard and decided to take on a new sport today &#8211; soccer,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office wrote.<\/p>\n<p>BRADENTON, Fla. \u2014 One &#8220;Florida gator&#8221; took the college team&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/syndication\/associatedpress\/defending-champion-florida-eliminated-from-march-madness-by-tougher-more-physical-iowa-team\/616-62217af2-b76d-4cdb-8168-3c235db9b138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">March Madness loss<\/a> to heart after being found stuck in a soccer net in Manatee County.<\/p>\n<p>The Manatee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says a passerby found an alligator trapped in a net Tuesday morning in the Greyhawk Landing neighborhood in Bradenton.<\/p>\n<p>MCSO COPS Rural Unit responded, freed him from the net and safely released him into a nearby pond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This gator took the Gators&#8217; loss in the NCAA basketball tournament hard and decided to take on a new sport today &#8211; soccer,&#8221; the sheriff&#8217;s office wrote. &#8220;We suggest that he stick to swimming as a sport in the future!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>    Alligator stuck in soccer net rescued by Manatee County Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;This gator took the Gators&#8217; loss in the NCAA basketball tournament hard and decided to take on a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":562292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-562291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/562292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}