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flower moving vans in the middle of the night in 1984. • "Yeah, because when this opportunity presented itself, I remember seeing the paper when I left town," Pagano joked. "I was driving a Mayflower out of town, so I fully understand. They had me in the cab, if I remember right." • Seahawks (11-5) at Redskins (10-6) • Two streaking teams with sensational rookie quarterbacks, making it three such starters in action Sunday; Andrew Luck leads the Colts. • Washington took its final seven games to grab its division title. QB Robert Griffin III (102.4) had the best single-season rookie passer rating in NFL history; Seattle's Russell Wilson was next at 100.0. Griffin also set a league mark for yards rushing by a rookie QB (815). • Wilson threw 26 TD passes, tying Peyton Manning's NFL rookie record set in 1998. • "He's a playmaker. He's a football player. He makes plays running around, like a video game, buying time for the receivers, taking off with the football himself," Redskins veteran linebacker London Fletcher said. • He was talking about Wilson; could have been about Griffin, as well. • • South Dakota knocks off South Dakota State 74-71 • VERMILLION, S.D. (AP) -- Juevol Myles scored 22 points, overshadowing a record-setting night by Nate Wolters, as South Dakota defeated South Dakota State 74-71 Saturday. • The Coyotes (7-10, 3-2 Summit) led by 20 points early in the second half before hanging on to defeat South Dakota State (11-6, 2-2). • Wolters scored 26 points in the losing effort to become the Jackrabbits' all-time leading scorer with 1,943 career points. He surpassed Mark Tetzlaff's mark of 1,931 set from 1981-85. • Brandon Bos added 16 points for South Dakota, including a 3-pointer to open the second half to put the Coyotes ahead 45-25. Casey Kasperbauer had 14 points and Trevor Gruis 12. • Chad White scored 16 points and Brayden Carlson 11 for South Dakota State, which used a 14-2 run midway through the second half to get within single digits and got as close as 72-71 on Jordan Dykstra's 3-pointer with 4 seconds left. •
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