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Harrington adjusts to Detroit By Curt Sylvester Knight Ridder Newspapers DETROIT — As soon as he gets caught up on his sleep, Joey Harring ton will get started on his to-do list. No. 1: Get an apartment and a bed. No. 2: Buy a refrigerator. No. 3: Get his very own Ms. Pac Man game. Harrington, the Lions’ first-round draft pick and quarterback of the not too-distant future, arrived in Detroit at 5:30 a.m. Monday after an all-night flight from Los Angeles. Two hours later, he was on his way into work outs and meetings at the Lions’ prac tice facility in Allen Park. Two days later, he still is getting caught up on his sleep, but he is set tling into the off-season workout routine, getting familiar with the area and putting together a plan. “I want to get settled,” Harrington said Tuesday. “That’s the biggest thing for me right now. I’m very un settled because I don’t have a place to live yet, I have to get my stuff out; it doesn’t feel like home yet. But I’m excited now that I’m here. I want to get a place, get my own bed, get my own refrigerator and start getting ac climated with Detroit.” And, of course, the Ms. Pac-Man game—the tabletop model that pro vides exactly the combination of challenge and escape that Harring ton appreciates. “Ms. Pac-Man requires such thinking on the fly, peripheral vi sion, quick reflexes,” he said. Although he’s 23, Harrington is still a kid — as he noted himself the day after the Lions drafted him last month — but there is nothing sim ple or shallow about him. And he is not a one-dimensional person. There is Harrington, the All American quarterback and the third player taken in the draft. He grew up admiring Joe Mon tana, Dan Marino and John El way, but said he didn’t even consider the possibility of playing professionally until about a year ago. “So few people get a chance to even be in an NFL camp, it wasn’t 009437 Auto Pros Inc Locally owned DOWNTOWN 1320 Willamette 485-2356 2975 West 11th 344-0007 OPEN Sundays^^*>, LUBE, OIL, FILTER • Chassis Lube • New Oil Filter • Up to 5 Qts. 10W-30 Kendall Oil • Clean Front Window • Vaccuum Front Floor Boards No Appointment necessary Most light cars & trucks 99 3/4 or 1-ton & Extra Cab Trucks Additional Kendall Buy, Trade, and Consign NEW AND USED Sports and Exercise Equipment • Skateboards • Bicycles • Snowboards • Roller Blades • Fitness Equipment • Golf • Soccer 1 2598 Willamette St. i Eugene, OR • 342-4041 M-F: 10-7, Sat: 9-6, Sun: 10-5 realistic,” he said. “If I did every thing I could to be the best college football player I could, then all that stuff would take care of itself. ” In two seasons, Harrington was 25 3 as a starting quarterback at Oregon. During that time, he orchestrated 10 fourth-quarter comeback victories, a skill shared by the three former NFL quarterbacks he most admired. “Those were the guys I watched,” he said, “because those were the guys who performed in the clutch.” Harrington is eager to get into the Lions’ playbook, anticipating the competition and the pressure that go with it. He went through the same thing when he was battling for the starting job at Oregon. “If you’ve got the eyes of an entire city watching your every move, that’s what it’s all about. Sitting there in the fourth quarter with 70,000 people staring at you, that’s the fun part.” ©2002, Detroit Free Press. Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune Information Services. Today’s crossword solution AAiAAlAAlAAAiAAAllTi: lAAAAAAAAAA Military Surplus New speed lace teaiher $BQgO combat boots U v" New G.l. 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Her volleyball career is hardly half the story. Pogue likes to run, too. Yes, she enjoys running. “I just like it,” she said. “I like being able to go out and run 26 miles in an afternoon if I feel like.” Hence the April 15 marathon she ran in Boston, the largest race in the world. In just the second “official” marathon of her life, Pogue was the 497th woman to finish the race — out of 5,339 fe male runners (14,573 total). “People always say if you’re go ing to run a marathon, that’s the one,” Pogue said. “I loved doing it, but it hurt. There’s a big hill at the end, and all of a sudden, at Mile 18, it really hits you.” Amazingly, two days after the Boston Marathon, Pogue joined up with Halligan and the club volleyball team in Dallas, Texas, where they won their second na tional championship. Halligan was named the tournament MVP, an honor Pogue received the year before. Nelson has remained influential in Pogue’s life. Now the volleyball coach at Eugene’s Sheldon High, Nelson encouraged Pogue to try out for the Oregon track team. In 2000, her only season with the track squad, Pogue participat ed in a number of events, includ ing the 100-meter dash, the 10,000-meter run and the long jump, competing mostly unat tached in several meets. Then she injured her knee and had to have surgery. “I was just doing something in my off time,” she said of her year with track. “I was planning on go ing back to track, but I was just getting out being an athlete. It was going to take a lot (after sur gery) to get back to where I need ed to be to be competitive on the track team.” So now she just competes for fun. And coaches on the side. Nelson asked Pogue two years ago if she would coach a youth club team. Pogue, like Halligan and former Oregon volleyball play er Julie Gerlach, agreed to be a mentor. “Annie’s got a lot of things to of fer,” Nelson said. “She has a pas sion for everything she does. She has a lot of potential as a coach; the girls really loved her. I hope she will continue to give back her knowledge of the game.” Pogue is also an artist. For her visual design classes, she has made several Web pages, many of which have some of her drawings. “Visual design has a lot of more hands-on art stuff to do; it stresses creativity,” said Pogue, who had a 4.0 GPA at Del Mar High in Camp bell, Calif. Pogue has no immediate plans after graduation; she’s only plan ning to head back home to the Bay Area. “I’m probably going to have a job where I just trace stuff for a couple years,” she said. Then again, her plans have been strayed before. From a pessimistic standpoint, Pogue has had a jagged journey at Oregon; it could be said that she is a bundle of potential that was nev er fully released. Optimistically, she’s had success with every obsta cle in front of her — and she’s en joyed it, too. “There could be sadness about what happened (with volleyball),” Nelson said. “But Annie’s not that way. She goes with the punches if things don’t work out. She’s got a lot of intensity, and she’s very tal ented.” And while it’s not a fairly tale ending, perhaps a bit ironic, Pogue seems to be emphatic about what ever course she may run into. E-mail sports editor Adam Jude at adamjude@dailyemerald.com. PALL CLASS!! 2002 ALL MAJORS PPPM410 CRN: 139850 10:00 - tt:SO M ■UlINBlt BA 4100 CRN: 1070IO ZOO - 3:50 U BIOLOGY BI4O70 CRN: IO8450 10:00 - 11:50 H CHEMISTRY CH 4080 CRN: 11O270 10:00 - 11:50 H PSYCHOLOGY PSV 4100 CRN: 141820 ZOO - 3:50 M Who would you choose as your mentor? Daniel-San wouldn't have learned the crane if it wasn’t mentor, Mr. Miyagi. By registering for a fall 2002 Mentor Program class, you too can learn from mentors in the career fields that interest you - while earning an upper division credit. FALL 1002 CL AH El EXERCISE A MOVIMCNT IC1INCI EMS 4080 CRN: 116780 IOCO - 11:50 H ENGLISH ENC 4080 CRN: 154190 2:00 - 3:50 H ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ENVS 4070 CRN: 118370 10:00 - 11:50 U PHYSICS PHVS 4080 CRN: 1394O0 lOCO - 11:50 H SOCIOLOGY SOC 4100 CRN: 149790 2:00 - 350 W A GOOD MATCH.
