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Different quarterbacks who have started a game for the Washington Redskins during Donovon McNabb's 11-year tenure with the Philadelphia Eagles. The Redskins traded their second-round pick in this month's draft, and either a third- or fourth-rounder next year, for McNabb, who has one year left on the $115 million contract he signed with the Eagles in 2002. McNabb led the Eagles to five NFC Championship games and one Super Bowl appearance. This season, he will face his former team as a division rival.
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Tries senior Jesse Faller needed in his career to qualify for nationals in the 10,000-meter run. At the Sam Howell meet last Friday in Princeton, NJ, Faller posted a 30:13.97 time in his first ever 10K run competition, finishing second out of 22 competitors and more than five seconds better than the automatic national qualifying mark of 30:20.20. Faller will look to perform well on the national stage at the Div. III Championships in late May at Baldwin-Wallace College.
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Combined hits from new Boston Red Sox Mike Cameron, Marco Scutaro and Adrian Beltre, all prized defensive performers, in the Sox's 9-7 victory over the Yankees in Sunday's home opener. The Red Sox brass made it an offseason goal to acquire stronger defensive players to promote "run prevention," but on Sunday, the defensive trio showed that they can put up serious numbers on offense as well.
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Distance, in feet and inches, that freshman Kelly Allen hurled a discus at the Snowflake Classic on the Ellis Oval this past Saturday, earning her a spot in the NCAA Outdoor Nationals meet later in the year and the NESCAC Performer of the Week award. Her distance, currently ranked fourth in the country, was good enough to break the old Tufts record of 135'3", set in 1990. Allen won the discus on Saturday, also taking first in the shot put.
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Percent of brackets on ESPN.com that had Duke taking on Butler in the championship game. Of the 4.8 million entered brackets on the website, just 1,430 correctly predicted the national final, in which Duke withstood a late charge by the Bulldogs and their star player, Gordon Hayward, to win 52-50. Kyle Singler was named the MVP of the Final Four as coach Mike Krzyzewski added another national championship to his already lengthy legacy at the North Carolina school.
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Consecutive home games for the baseball team, after starting off the season with 12 consecutive road slates. Compiling a 10-2 record to open the season, the Jumbos now return to Huskins Field for two three-game NESCAC series as well as a doubleheader versus UMass Dartmouth. For a squad that is hitting .324 on the year, including four players who are hitting over .400, returning home could keep the hot start to the year alive.
