ABCDE SPORTS sunday, september 26, 2010 COLLEGEFOOTBALL
Hokies hound ’em Virginia Tech’s defense causes more nightmares for BC’s quarterback in a shutout win. D11
HOCKEY
Kid stays in the picture Just 19, Cody Eakin is a long shot to make the Capitals’ roster, but he’s not playing like it. D2
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Super Bowl hopefuls enter Week 3 still searching for first win
BY MARK MASKE When three of Brett Favre’sMinneso-
ta Vikings teammates went to the quarterback’s home in Mississippi last month and convinced him to play a second season with the team, the clear
expectation in the Twin Cities was that Favre and the club would go a step further than they did last season and reach the Super Bowl. This season also beganwith seeming-
ly realistic Super Bowl aspirations in Dallas, with the Cowboys coming off a division-winning season and hoping to play in the sport’s showcase event in February as well as hosting it at their palatial second-year stadium in Arling- ton, Tex.
ERAof Nationals starter Yunesky Maya, to go with an 0-3 record, after a 5-0 loss to the Atlanta Braves yesterday. D3
Vikings, Cowboys have their work cut out for them Much has changed in only twoweeks
of the new season, as the Vikings and Cowboys surprisingly are among the eight NFL teams with 0-2 records. They’ll be playing Sunday to try to keep their seasons from unraveling any fur- ther, with the Vikings hosting the also-winlessDetroit Lions and the Cow- boys playing the unbeaten Texans in Houston. “It’s always easy to keepwinning and tough to turn it around,” former NFL
l NFL Gameday: The Smarter Stats preview ofWeek 3. D9
coach Dan Reeves said. “People were kind of anointing those two teams as Super Bowl contenders, and no one expected this to happen. But it’s not time to panic in both cases. It’s tough to start 0-2. But it’s still better to lose your first two games of the season than your last two games of the season.” So it goes in theNFL,with a business
model designed to keep all franchises on relatively even financial footing so that each team can begin each season
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HASLETT GIVES TEAM AN EDGE T
here is an easyway to describe Jim Haslett – “Crazy,” defen- sive end Phillip Daniels said— and he is hardly one to debate the matter. “You’re going to
think I’mweird, but . . .”Haslett saidone day, shortly before his first season as the Redskins’ defensive coordinator began. Weird? He was a skinny quarterback
in high school, went to college to play basketball, and somehow bulked up enough to become an all-American de- fensive end. He entered the NFL as a second-round pick from little Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where, as former teammate Fred Smerlas said, “He must have horrified people.” He got in fights his first three days of
trainingcampwith the Buffalo Bills,and immediately started hazing the veter- ans, stealing their cars, messing with their heads. He ended up as the NFL’s defensive rookie of the year. What’s weird about that? “We had fun,”Haslett said. “You’d probably get arrested for a lot
of the stuffwedidnow,” said Smerlas, his frequent accomplice. Haslett once bought a 65-acre farm—
not for the horses and cows that resided there, but so his beloved dog, a blue Queensland heeler, could chase those horses and cows around. He once stepped on the head of Pittsburgh Steel- ers quarterback Terry Bradshaw—after
haslett continued onD7 Redskins at Rams
When: 4 p.m. TV: WTTG-5, WBFF-45. Where: Edward Jones Dome, St. Louis.
Inside: Haynesworth explains offseason rift, says “everything’s been fine” with coach. D7
TONI L. SANDYS/THE WASHINGTON POST Of all the stops JimHaslett has made, none has touched him like his stint coaching the Saints at the time of Katrina.
Expanding their kingdom T
BY AMY SHIPLEY IN MIAMI
heMiamiHeatwill open training camp Tuesdaymorning at aU.S.Air Force base in Florida’s panhandle that is closer toHoustonthan tothe team’s arena.AsLeBronJames,DwyaneWade andChrisBoshpractice together for the first time asNBAteammates, theywillbe600miles fromtheglitz andbuzzofMiami. Journalists intendingto
cover the trio’s debutmust submit to background checks and dog searches, andwill be taken on and off EglinAir Force Base near FortWalton Beach by bus. The players will bunk in dormitories, insulated fromthe public. ¶ Beginning the 2010-11 season behind barbed-wire fencesmakes sense, perhaps, under the circumstances.Never before have the three biggest stars
fromanyU.S.professional sports freeagent classdecidedtojoinforceswiththegoalof fashioninganinstant dynasty. And never before have offseasonmoves generated somuch controversy and conversation. In a tandemmove described as unsporting by some and unselfish by others, three theoretical rivals shed their swords in July and agreed to share the stage for thenext six years. ¶ James,Wade andBosh, immediatelydubbed“theThreeKings,”have turnedthe
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‘I like being here. I wanted to be a Wizard.’
Andray Blatche’s summer got off to a rough start when he suffered a broken foot. But two days before training camp he is happy, healthy and wealthier— thanks to a three-year contract extension he negotiated himself. D5
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Redshirt freshman throws for 250 yards, two TDs in 42-28 win
BY ERIC PRISBELL
Redskins defensive coordinator finds that a little craziness goes a long way during a lengthy coaching career BY BARRY SVRLUGA
The smallest home crowd ever to
watch a Ralph Friedgen-coached team playmay have seen a glimmer of hope for a struggling program on Saturday: the potential start of the Danny O’Brien era. An uneven team performance and
excruciatingly long day for the defense in a 42-28 victory over Florida Internation- al were overshadowed by the auspicious debut of the first freshman quarterback to start for theTerrapins since 1999. After playing as a backup during the first three games, the redshirt freshman started in place of injured Jamarr Robinson and displayed the poise his coaches have raved about for more than a year. It was not merely that O’Brien com-
pleted 18 of 27 passes for 250 yards and placed two perfectly thrown balls that were reeled in for touchdown receptions, including a 68-yard score by wide receiv- er Torrey Smith. He also made sound decisions throughout, successfully picked up blitzes and, perhaps most important, avoided throwing an inter- ception against a defense that had thrived on creating turnovers. “He makes an argument to be the
starter,” offensive coordinator James Franklin said. “Butwe’ll worry about that down the road.” That Maryland (3-1) even found a
healthy quarterback to play was an ac- complishment after an anxiety-filled week for coaches. Friedgen had said as recently as Wednesday that his two injury-riddled quarterbacks—Robinson (sore throwing shoulder) and O’Brien (high ankle sprain) — were “doing well” and were expected to play. But Friedgen and Franklin privately fretted over their predicament. “Not a lot of sleep,” Franklin said. Both injuries appear to have been
more serious early in the week than coaches publicly acknowledged at the time. As it turned out, the two quarter-
O’Brien sparks
COLLEGEFOOTBALL
[1] Alabama 24, [10] Arkansas 20 [2] Ohio St. 73, E. Michigan 20
[5] Oregon at Arizona St., late [6] Nebraska 17, S. Dakota St. 3
[3] Boise St. vs. [24] Oregon St., late UCLA 34, [7] Texas 12 Coverage on Pages D11-14
Va. Tech 19, Boston College 0 Virginia 48, VMI 7
Georgetown 17, Holy Cross 7 AUTORACING
Hi to the bad guy Kyle Busch’s brash style has made him NASCAR’s villain, but his talent has put him in title contention. D2
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Terrapins past FIU
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