Harvin released from hospital

Percy Harvin, a Minnesota Vikings rookie receiver and recent University of Florida standout, was released from an Atlanta hospital Saturday and is recovering at home, Vikings officials said.

Harvin, who was en route to Minneapolis for mini-camp, began throwing up during a layover Thursday at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and was hospitalized for dehydration.

The Minneapolis Star Tribune reported Harvin was at home, and Vikings coach Brad Childress said doctors had ruled out any chances of Harvin, the team’s top pick in last weekend’s NFL draft, having swine flu.

“It’s just an unfortunate circumstance, that’s all,” Childress said Friday in a statement.

Team officials said Harvin’s intense travel schedule over the past week and his new NFL workout regimen, led to his dehydration.

Childress said Harvin had taken at least 14 trips back and forth between Minneapolis and his Gainesville, Fla., home over two weeks.

“That’s what they are calling extreme dehydration probably exacerbated by that hard workout,” Childress said.

He went on to describe Harvin’s last week of flights and workouts, saying he got sick during Wednesday strength workouts.

“The [flight] that he left from here on Sunday, when he came back, was delayed an hour-and-a-half here in Minneapolis,” Childress said. “He got to Atlanta at midnight, missed a connection. They got in a car and drove to Jacksonville, got there at 7 o’clock in the morning. And he had three workouts the week that I was down there [last week]. I just think the grind had caught up with him.”