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Seahawks off to flying Start
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on a m isdirection play for S eattle’s
second touchdown o f the quarter.
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Steve Erickson and Seahawks coaching staff guide the
team to an 3-0 start. Their next contest is against the
Pittsburg Steelers
SEATTLE - Steve Broussard got
the unbeaten Seattle Seahawks o ff to
a perfect start. Then their defense
kept their record perfect against the
w inless W ashington Redskins.
G am e notesN FL com m issioner
Paul Tagliabue attended Sunday’s
game. He said he was in Seattle to get
updated over the plans for the team ’s
new outdoor, sta d iu m .... Seahawks
w id e r e c e iv e r Jo e y G a llo w a y
sprained an ankle, while linebacker
C had B row n and d efensive end
P hillip D aniels had concussions.
Erickson said he expected all three to
play in S eattle’s next gam e at Pitts­
burgh next Sunday. ... The R edskins’
Tw an Russell suffered a sprained toe
in his left foot. W ashington guard
Joe Patton and safety safety Jesse
Cam pbell had sprained right knees.
... Top draft choice Anthony Simmons
m ade his debut with the Seahawks at
outside linebacker after Brown went
out with his concussion in the third
q u a rte r.... The Seahaw ks are a plus-
8 in turnover ratio, while the Redskins
are m in u s-8 .... M oon hasn’t thrown
an interception this year. Broussard
ran back the gam e’s opening kickoff
90 yards for a touchdow n and the
Seahawks ran their record to 3-0 -
their first since 1986 - w ith a 24-14
victory over the Redskins on Sun­
day.
" I t w as b lo c k e d p e r f e c tly ,”
Broussard said. " I r a n through a hole
as big as a truck.”
The Seahawks also took advan­
tage o f three turnovers on a day when
their offense cam e up short statisti­
cally.
" O u r goal every gam e is to get
three turnovers,’ ’ safety Jay Bellamy
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said. " T h e re ’s nothing like taking
the ball aw ay to deflate your oppo­
nent.”
Ricky W atters had his second
straight 100-yard rushing game and
scored his first touchdow n for the
Seahaw ks, w ho also got W arren
M oon’s sixth TD pass o f the season.
The Redskins (0-3) are o ff to their
w orst start since 1981, when they
dropped their first five games.
‘ ’T here’s no question our team is
as frustrated as you can b e,” dow n­
cast Redskins coach Norv Turner
said. "W h en you start the game out
w ith a kick return for a touchdown,
that really hurts.”
Said W ashington linebacker Ken
H arvey. " I t w ould be easy to give
up. But we have 13 gam es left and we
have to believe w e can win all 13
gam es.”
W ashington lost despite getting a
300-yard passing gam e from Trent
Green. G reen was 27-of-54 for 383
yards and tw o touchdow ns. The
R edskins h ad 27 first dow ns to
S eattle’s 16 and 465 yards to the
Seahaw ks' 299.
"S ta ts are stats,” Seattle coach
D ennis E rick so n said. " B u t the
scoreboard is the scoreboard. T hat’s
w hat it’s all about.”
" W e had a lot o f good perfor­
m ances, b ut w e still d idn’t w in,”
said G reen, W ashington’s starter the
past two w eeks. W atters ran 24 tim es
for 146 yards and one touchdown,
w hile M oon was 16-for-33 for 141
yards and one touchdow n with no
interceptions.The Seahaw ks inter­
cepted two passes by G reen and also
recovered a fumble that cost the
Redskins a chance for a second
to u chdow n.S eattle’s d efense had
three sacks, giving it 19 in three
games. The Seahawks have outscored
their first three opponents 95-28.
Broussard, 31, gave the Seahawks
a 7-0 lead 15 seconds into the game
when he took David A kers’ kickoff
at the 10 and sprinted 90 yards un­
touched for a touchdown. Leading 10-
7 at halftim e, the Seahawks scored
two touchdowns in the third quarter
to take a 24-7 lead.
W atters scored on a 13-yard run
with 2:22 gone in the second h alf
after Darrin Smith intercepted a pass
by G reen on the W ashington 19.
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Griffith Joyner autopsy inconclusive
An autopsy
on Olympic sprinter
^Florence Griffith Joyner did
not immediately determine the cause
o f death, a sh e riffs spokesman said
Tuesday.
" I t could take a few days or a few
w eeks’ ’ before a cause is determined,
said Lt. Hector Rivera o f the Orange
County SherifT s Department. Rivera
said the coroner started the autopsy
M onday at 1 p.m. PDT, but didn't
know how long the procedure took.
The coroner conducted a series o f
standard tests, including toxicology,
done when the cause o f death is un­
known, Rivera said.
The stylish 38-year-old athlete, the
world record holder in the 100- and
200-meter dashes, died early Monday
at her Mission Viejo home. She had
suffered from heart problems in re­
cent years.
Her husband, Al Joyner, the 1984
Olympic triple jum p champion, called
authorities after finding her "u n re ­
sponsive and not breathing,”
Rivera said. "S h e died in her
sleep sometime during the night,”
he said.
A decade ago this week, Griffith
Joyner won three gold medals at the
Seoul Olympics, where her sister-in-
law, six-time Olympic medalist and
world heptathlon record-holder Jackie
Joyner-Kersee, also starred. In an NBC
interview Tuesday, Joyner-K ersee
praised her as " a woman o f sub­
stance.”
Griffith Joyner, or FloJo, as she
was known, still holds world records
in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. She
set the 100 mark o f 10.49 seconds in
the quarterfinals o f the 1988 Olympic
trials at Indianapolis, and since then,
no one has even broken 10.60. At
Seoul, she won the gold medal in a
wind-aided 10.54.
Griffith Joyner then smashed the
world 200 record in the Olympic fi­
nal, clocking 21.34. American Marion
Jones, with a 21.62 at the W orld Cup
in South Africa this month, is the only
other w oman to run the 200 in under
21.70.
G riffith Joyner also won a gold
medal in the 400 relay and just missed
a fourth gold medal when the U.S.
team finished second in the 1,600
relay, which Gri ffith Joyner anchored.
‘ ’ It' s an amazing legacy. Many ha ve
tried and all have failed in terms ofher
records,” said nine-time Olympic gold
m edalist Carl Lewis. "(H er death) is
something that impacts the sport when
the sport is hurting very, very bad.”
Track and field had never pro­
duced such an exotic creature. At the
1988 trials, she stunned fans and com ­
petitors by running in a purplebodysuit
with a turquoise bikini brief over it,
but nothing on her left leg.
"S h e proved a beautiful woman
could go out and be a phenomenal
athlete,” said Dwight Stones, a two-
time Olympic bronze medalist in the
high jum p. " W e w on’t know for a
long time how many female athletes
she inspired by being her own per­
son.
"S h e was very, very determ ined,’ ’
said Jeanette Bolden, a former O lym ­
pic teammate and head w om en’s track
and fieldcoachat UCLA. "T herew as
no impossibility to anything. She re­
ally tried to live that.”
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