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
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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.
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Pogue
continued from page 9
“We still wanted to play and
have fun, and that’s a big part of
the success of the Club team.”
Pogue said. “After we’ve had a
couple seasons at the club level
and two national championships,
we talked about how we beat the
system.”
Beat the system in a sense that
the two friends, both exceptional
athletes, also took advantage of the
academic opportunities available
at the University, something they
would not have been able to do
had they still been on the varsity
volleyball team.
“I think it worked out for every
body,” Pogue said. “Now I don’t
even think about (Oregon volley
ball).”
“That’s the only interesting part
about this whole thing,” Pogue
said, referring to her sudden de
parture from the volleyball team.
Touche. 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.
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