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PRO FOOTBALL BLOGS, MULTIMEDIA AND CHATS
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Today, 11:30 a.m. Dan Steinberg discusses the Capitals, college basketball and more.
Investigators in Georgia plan to Coaches agree that
meet Ben Roethlisberger about
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winning the
the accusation that he sexually all-inclusive event
assaulted a woman. D2 The 65 Eric Prisbell presents updated brackets from around the bracket-sphere. is “a big ask.” D3
Redskins Insider
Punter Hunter Smith is taking
things slowly in free agency. D5
1 p.m.
Starting time for today’s spring training game between the
Nats and Tigers, marking the spring debut of Stephen Strasburg.
Streak
This is the face
at home
ends for
of a man with a fresh start
Capitals
Ovechkin scores twice
in shootout loss to Dallas,
ending 13-game run
by Tarik El-Bashir
Alex Ovechkin’s slump is over. But so
is the Washington Capitals’ winning
streak at Verizon Center.
Loui Eriksson scored in the fifth
round of the shootout to lift the Dallas
Stars to a 4-3 victory and hand the Cap-
itals their first loss on home ice since
Dec. 28, a 13-game run.
Ovechkin ended a six-game drought
with a pair of goals, the second coming
with 3 minutes 16 seconds remaining in
regulation to force the game into over-
time after a third-period “hiccup” that
saw the Capitals squander a 2-0 lead.
The two-time MVP’s timely tally, how-
ever, was not enough.
“I thought the entire team had a hic-
cup in the third period,” Coach Bruce
Boudreau said. They came on [in the
third period] and thought, ‘Hey, we’re
still in the game.’ Once they got the first
one, I knew it was going to be a dog-
fight.”
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TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST JONATHAN FERREY/GETTY IMAGES
Goalie Semyon Varlamov is left prone “I don’t regret my time in Washington,” Indians Manager Manny Acta said. “I’m extremely happy to be [with Cleveland] now. This is a good fit for me.”
after allowing the game-winner in the
shootout to the Stars’ Loui Eriksson.
Ex-Nationals skipper Acta sticks with his philosophy in new job in Cleveland
Roach eyes
by Dave Sheinin
Acta’s big league tour
in goodyear, ariz.
Before joining the Indians —
healthy finish
he old scout appeared in front of Manny Acta out of nowhere, like some kind of ghost of
the victors in the competition for his
services — Manny Acta bounced
around with mostly middling results.
for Pacquiao
re my manager of the year.” Acta
2002 Expos 83-79
2003 Expos 83-79
did a double take, looking around to make sure Charlie Manuel or Lou Piniella wasn’t
2004 Expos 67-95
Frank Robinson’s third base coach.
Trainer, in pain himself,
T
fungoes past. The man, whom Acta had never met in his life, had his hand outstretched
and he was saying something utterly nonsensical: “You’
standing behind him. ¶ It was December 2008, at the Major League Baseball winter
2005 Mets 83-79
urges prized fighter to retire
meetings in Las Vegas, and Acta was at his low point as the manager of the Washington Nationals — 2006 Mets 97-65
Interviewed for managerial jobs with
after Clottey, Mayweather
or what he thought was the low point. That season, he had endured a 59-102 nightmare. At the end of
the Diamondbacks and Dodgers;
it, all but one of his coaches were fired, and an enraged Acta had to be talked out of quitting himself. ¶
joined the Mets as third base coach.
by Michael Leahy
“But, sir,” Acta told the old scout, still thinking the man was confused, “I just lost 102 games.” ¶ “It’s
2007 Nationals 73-89
2008 Nationals 59-102
los angeles — If you’re an aging pro-
not that you lost 102,” the man said. “I want to know how in the hell you won 59.”
2009 Nationals 59-103
Then-Manager Acta and the
fessional athlete, there are plenty of
Nationals parted ways after his team
sports where you can hang around with-
acta continued on D4 started the 2009 season 26-61.
out endangering yourself. It’s just that
this isn’t one of them. You hang on too
long here, you leave damaged. The man
with the tremors in his left hand knows
it.
When especially tired or under stress,
his entire body quivers like a tuning fork.
WCAC finals:
He has Parkinson’s disease. A few people
pleaded with him to stop fighting, but he
didn’t listen. “Fighters don’t want to
Quinn Cook leads
quit,” he says.
Nowadays a trainer, 50-year-old Fred-
die Roach keeps a careful eye on Manny
Pacquiao, the best of his fighters, perhaps
DeMatha’s boys
the best fighter on the planet, a dazzling
pugilist he cares about like a son. He
loves him, love being the word he never
and Tyaunna
uses — too soft for the maniacal world of
a boxing gym. But it is the right word; it
accounts for his ferocity when it comes to
Marshall paces the
all things Pacquiao. At 5-foot-6
1
⁄2, with
his toothy grin, close-set eyes and dark-
framed glasses, Roach looks like a pint- Seton girls to their
sized Buddy Holly.
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