SPORTS SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2014

LANDOVER: wide receiver Preston Parker (83) is stopped by Washington Redskins free safety Ryan Clark (25) during the first half of an NFL football game. — AP Giants rout Redskins 45 -14

LANDOVER: New York tight end Larry A strip-sack by set up Donnell caught three scoring passes from New York’s first , Trumaine NFL standings quarterback in the first half to set McBride’s strip of tight end Logan Paulsen up the Giants’ 45-14 win over the Washington after a catch ended a Washington drive deep Conference National Football Conference Redskins on Thursday. in New York territory, and , AFC East NFC East Manning completed 28 for 39 passes for Quinten Demps, McBride and W L T OTL PF PA PCT Philadelphia3 0 0 0 101 78 1.000 300 yards with four and one intercepted Cousins’ passes in the second Buffalo 2 1 0 0 62 52 .667 Dallas 2 1 0 0 77 69 .667 . He also ran for a touchdown half. Cousins - who has the starting QB job N England 2 1 0 0 66 49 .667 NY Giants 2 2 0 0 103 91 .500 from the 1-yard line, and Andre Williams also while Robert Griffin III recovers from a dislo- Miami 1 2 0 0 58 83 .333 Washington1 3 0 0 95 109 .250 ran for a score. cated ankle - finished 19 for 33 for 257 yards NY Jets 1 2 0 0 62 72 .333 NFC North Donnell finished with seven catches for 54 with four and a . AFC North Detroit 2 1 0 0 61 45 .667 yards. He had only one career touchdown The Redskins, under first-year coach Jay Cincinnati 3 0 0 0 80 33 1.000 Chicago 2 1 0 1 75 62 .667 catch entering the game, but he now leads Gruden, dropped to 1-3 and into the cellar in Baltimore 2 1 0 0 65 50 .667 Minnesota 1 2 0 0 50 56 .333 the Giants this season in TD catches (4) and the NFC East, already 2-1/2 games behind Pittsburgh 2 1 0 0 73 72 .667 Green Bay 1 2 0 0 54 79 .333 overall receptions (25). Daniel Fells had a 2- unbeaten Philadelphia. Cousins threw three Cleveland 1 2 0 0 74 77 .333 NFC South yard scoring catch in the third quarter, which interceptions in a span of five attempts in the AFC South Carolina 2 1 0 0 63 58 .667 means tight ends have snagged seven of second half. Houston 2 1 0 0 64 50 .667 Atlanta 2 1 0 0 103 72 .667 Manning’s nine TD passes this season. Donnell became the first Giants player Indianapolis1 2 0 0 95 78 .333 New Orleans 1 2 0 1 78 72 .333 New York’s Victor Cruz added six recep- with three touchdown catches in a half since Tennessee 1 2 0 0 43 69 .333 Tampa Bay 0 3 0 0 45 95 0 tions for 108 yards, his second consecutive in the 2002-03 season, accord- Jacksonville 0 3 0 0 44 119 0 NFC West 100-yard game. Redskins quarterback Kirk ing to STATS. Redskins tight end left AFC West Arizona 3 0 0 0 66 45 1.000 Cousins and his receivers weren’t anywhere the game in the first half after a nasty helmet- Denver 2 1 0 1 75 67 .667 Seattle 2 1 0 0 83 66 .667 near as efficient for the home team, who were to-helmet hit and Washington also lost left San Diego 2 1 0 0 69 49 .667 Kansas City 1 2 0 0 61 65 .333 San Francisco1 2 0 0 62 68 .333 undone by six turnovers that led to 31 points tackle Trent Williams to a strained knee in the Oakland 0 3 0 0 37 65 0 St. Louis 1 2 0 0 56 85 .333 for the Giants. second half. — AP No Cup decisions one year after Oracle’s big victory

SAN DIEGO: Bermuda shorts, or fish tacos and margaritas? What will “You’re wrong,” Coutts said during a recent visit to San Diego to plunged. The clinching race was watched by 189,000 households. the flavor of the next America’s Cup be? One year after one of the meet with government officials and potential sponsors. Oracle Team USA owner Larry Ellison, one of the of the richest biggest comebacks in sports, regatta officials are still sorting out Coutts was then headed to Los Angeles to meet with television men in the world, apparently has gotten tired of plopping down $100 details for the 2017 event. They haven’t picked a venue, although it’ll executives as he continues to try to sell his vision of stadium sailing million here and $100 million there to pay the costs of not only be either Bermuda or San Diego. They’ve yet to announce a major that’s accessible to TV viewers as well as spectators lining the shore. A defending the silver trophy, but staging the overall event. sponsor or TV deal, or the schedule for warmup regattas for the next five-time America’s Cup winner, Coutts said he wouldn’t get in the Ellison has charged Coutts with coming up with a way to make the two years. door at any network if it hadn’t been for Oracle’s thrilling comeback America’s Cup pay for itself. It’s expensive for participants and organ- Many in sailing feel the America’s Cup has frittered away all the led by skipper Jimmy Spithill. izers alike. Coutts took a first step by pulling the event from San momentum it gained in the mainstream sports world when the once- “No way,” Coutts said. “I think the television product really stood Francisco, where, he said, it would cost some $38 million to stage the stodgy sport zoomed fully into the 21st century on space-age cata- out and is giving us an opportunity. The networks are definitely inter- next regatta. The New Zealander was unhappy that San Francisco was marans that skimmed across San Francisco Bay on hydrofoils in ested in picking up the property. That of course spins off to all the unwilling to give cup organizers the same terms as last time, which September 2013. Oracle Team USA rallied to win eight straight races other commercial aspects around the event.” included free use of piers and city services. to stun Emirates Team New Zealand and keep the Auld Mug in the NBC broadcast the opening weekend of the last America’s Cup, So, one year after the Oracle crew sprayed Ellison with champagne United States. So what does America’s Cup czar Russell Coutts say to watched by nearly 1 million U.S. households on each of the first two on Sept. 25, 2013, the America’s Cup is struggling to convert the the critics? days. But once the racing shifted to NBC Sports Network, viewership momentum into future value. — AP