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Roundup Redskins tab Edwards as defensive coordinatorPosted: Wednesday January 15, 2003 11:02 AMASHBURN, Va. (AP) -- The Washington Redskins will make linebackers coach George Edwards their fifth defensive coordinator in as many years. Edwards replaces Marvin Lewis, who became the new head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals on Tuesday. Redskins head coach Steve Spurrier confirmed Edwards' promotion late Tuesday to reporters in Mobile, Ala., where he is scouting practices for the Senior Bowl. Spurrier had long hinted that Edwards would be his choice if Lewis left, and several players had lobbied publicly for Edwards because they didn't want to learn yet another new defensive system. Edwards follows Mike Nolan, Ray Rhodes, Kurt Schottenheimer and Lewis in the yearly turnover of defensive coordinators since Dan Snyder bought the Redskins in 1999. Lewis was made the highest-paid assistant in the league when he was hired last year, but the team didn't expect him to stay long because he was a perennial head coaching candidate. Edwards is expected to keep Lewis' schemes intact. The defense had a steep learning curve under Lewis early in the season, but it rallied to finish fifth in the league in yards allowed by year's end. "I think George Edwards should be the clear-cut choice," linebacker LaVar Arrington said the day after the season ended. "He's the most qualified. I'm confident we'll be able to keep the system in place." Edwards played for Spurrier at Duke in the 1980s and was on Spurrier's coaching staff at Florida in the 1990s. He spent four seasons as the Dallas Cowboys linebackers coach before Spurrier brought him to the Redskins last year.
Theismann's son sentenced on drug chargesSOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) -- The son of football great Joe Theismann received a suspended sentence and was placed on five years of probation after pleading guilty to drug charges. Joseph W. Theismann, 31, of Fairfax, Va., was sentenced Tuesday to a 10-year suspended prison term, placed on probation and fined $2,500. Theismann pleaded guilty in October to a felony charge of dealing cocaine and a misdemeanor charge of possessing drug paraphernalia. In exchange for the guilty plea, prosecutors dismissed charges of possessing cocaine and maintaining a common nuisance. The younger Theismann was arrested Jan. 30 at a South Bend hotel after police were called about a white residue that hotel cleaning personnel found on a plate in the room.
His father, Joseph R. Theismann, was the quarterback at Notre Dame in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He was the Heisman Trophy runner-up his senior year, won a Super Bowl with the Washington Redskins and is currently a football analyst for ESPN.
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