chris cooley enjoyed another pro bowl year with a career best 849 yards, 83 catches and 0 touchdowns from jason campbell. antwaan randle el in philadelphia. when you've got a tight end capable of the numbers cooley can put up your starting quarterback better get in the ball in the end zone. >>> sort of a season we didn't connect on a touchdown pass. i don't think we will have any problem with that throughout this year and i will just look for a successful season between the two of us throughout the year. >> i have to do a better job scheming to get him the ball. we tried much that's all i can tellyou. >> meanwhile college football and maryland men open their season in college park just 24 hours from now although the terps are likely counting down the minutes which have ticked by seemingly slow since the opener last saturday. hosting james madison tomorrow. favouring an acc team. but in week 1 two teams took them down. james madison went to the college football subdivision final 4. >> it is a very dangerous team coming in here. they will be fired up. you all know what happened to duke

yes, chris cooley's wife was a redskins cheer leader, and she got fired, but she did get to marry chris you would like to see that e- mail and chris' response, it's on his blog, which is chriscoole y47.blogspot.com. and don't let your kids watch it. >> got it. thanks. up next, a young mother's desperate quest to see her daughter see. how far would you go for a cure. >> and we are always on at wusa9.com. stay with us, tonight's living well segment is next. [ female announcer ] black is always flattering. myth. head & shoulders is just for dandruff. myth. the fact is, head & shoulders does more than ordinary shampoos and conditioners. it gives you... seven scalp and hair benefits including relieving dryness, itch and irritation. fact. black may not always be flattering, but beautiful, 100% flake-free hair always is. head & shoulders. respect the scalp. love the hair. >>> tonight in living well, a story of fighting blindness against incredible odds. a family from king george, virginia, is about to take a medical odyssey to china in hopes of bringing light in the world of a child named summ

giants up 17-10 after three. 4th quarter, skins down 23-10, but campbell with a nice pass to chris cooley. 17 yards for he score. cooley had seven catches for 68 yards and the touchdown. skins down only six after the extra point. andredskins fall 23-17 at the meadowlands. jason campbell, say what you well, 19 of 26, a touchdown, an int. 462 yards but most of them came on that one big run. so they go to the meadowlands, second straight year. they lose for the second straight year. jim zorn, what do you have? >> i can tell you that we have a very good football team. i'm very impressed with some of the things that happened on the field. i think our challenge was to become more disciplined on the field, and that's going to be our challenge from week 1 to week 2. >> time for our first break. but up next on geio sports extra, a little more of the bad and some ugly and not too much good for the redskins and a bad day in new jersey. we'll be right back. 

so is gilbert arenas and chris cooley for the redskins. >> why don't you interview gee wiz? sit him down there. >> they get a little bit nervous. gee wiz is still worried about the last season. >> he should be. >> this is highly entertaining. thank you, thank you. >> what say the guy on your right there? >> the weird one. >> this is the washington castle. now i am going to do sports and wring ovechkin's neck when he makes it down here. going to "monday night football" last night. there were two incredible games that lived up to the billing. we started out west. oakland raiders, san diego chargers. jamarcus russell almost led them to victory. let's begin in oakland, california. these guys know how to show up. they are there to support their team. jamarcus russell trying to snap the raiders' six-game losing streak. raiders trailing the chargers. russell goes deep. 57 yards for the touchdown. but philip rivers of the chargers would drive the chargers 89 yards and little more than two minutes. the drive would be capped off by this five-year touchdown. chargers win 24-20. now we

the guy that was excited was chris cooley. >> i was honored to be up for that or be nominated for that award. i feel humble that people thought of me when they thought of that. i'm excited. it's a cool event. i'm excited to be here. we had a blast getting ready for it. >> show me the sneakers. >> i have these cool black ones. i went with the tongue out. >> tongue out. he was up for character award and he won, which was very cool. he was dressed to the nines as they all were. you said you have that shirt. >> he said he went to get some of his duds, then they drove back. it was a cool event. >> you were great. >> oh, you're so sweet. >> of course. >> way to go, thank you. >>> up next, the supreme court could decide the >>> experts answered questions about hlth care reform at a town hall meeting in the district tonight. >> there's much to be learned about this bill. you think you know it all, somebody else says something and you wonder if it's right. >> she invited people to ask questions. district residents were asked to talk about their problem with the current health care plan. >>> red

chris cooley has played tight send since 2004 his wife was a cheerleader. his wife cheers them on every sunday. they are a family that believes they can face any opponent and now they have. >>> it was just the week before chris' wedding i was driving to the school and i got a call from my doctor on the way to school at 8:00 in the morning on may 16th said you have breast cancer. the thing is i had had a check up not that long ago before i found the lump. so there is just -- its, you know, kind of scary because i had all that done and then three months later i have this huge lump. >> i think any time you hear news that anyone has cancer it's devastating because you just don't know what's going to happen. it's a very unexpected disease. so it was tough to find out that my mom had cancer and she was extremely upset she didn't know, you know, what was going to happen. she didn't know what to do. >> she has been so tough through everything. and so we were kind of laughing, our team doctor came up to me and said well i see why you're never her and you never compl

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something chris cooley accident too happy about. >> i guess you could say there is a benefit in facing a team you know well. but on the other hand we are going to new york to play an outstanding football team. so i think there's a lot of orweek one games we would have rather had. >> reporter: the nationals and phillies opened a three-game set last night at nationals park. the nats on the board early. guzman singles in the first and harris comes in to score. dc up 1-0 and then the phillies went on a home run binge. they hit five solo shots including back to back homers. nats lose 5-3. >>> our time is 6:24. >>> ahead the increased security today on amtrak. it is astir that is new this morning. >>> in ten minutes the new list of office doing and continues. new etiquette when it comes to food, e-mail and more. here's angie. >>> live from norbeck lanes are open but losing one lane on the other side. an update coming up. >>> an umbrella is optional. light sprinkles but rain on e doppler 9000. recast e fostcacoming up. fab@fa >>> quiet a scene on route 3 in bow by, maryland. you sea the video

. >> reporter: there were other redskins including chris cooley who spoke out saying booing is not goingo motivate the team to play any better. fan whose feel they have the right to boo say they are frustrated after going ten seasons without a division title and 18 seasons without a super bowl title. >> it gets emotional out there. >> thanks, keith. >>> coming up, a new push for >>> credit scores are taking a big hit in this poor economy. liz crenshaw is here to report on steps you can take to protect your score. >> and the pumpkin predictions. scarce in some spots, available in others. who knew? you have news from the pumpkin patch. >> reporter: let's start with these credit scores. the banks may be crying about customer delinquencies, but the bottom line appears to be credit-worthy consumers are struggling to find loans they can get. the "usa today" reports consumer delinquencies reached almost 1.75%, the highest level in at least 35 years. combine that with a bankruptcy filing increase of 22%, and you've get the recipe for a banking industry reluctant to make loans to consumers with e

giants took away everything except chris cooley and antoine randle el. those two combined for 14 out of jason campbell's 19 completions. nothing wrong with them, but to open things up, jim zorn knows they need to get the ball to santana moss. moss had two catches for a scant six yards. he was a nonfactor against the giants. generally, when moss gets rolling, so does the offense. you can say he's like the redskins' cold medicine. >> sure i would like to have the ball earlier, once or twice here and there. that builds your morale and were confidence. you can go out and be a complete player. what i do most of the time when i'm not getting the ball is find something to do. make sure i'm doing my job, get in the right area make sure i'm the key guy when it comes to somebody else getting open. >> part of getting all these guys open is to get them in better positions and then try to compete for that single coverage. sometimes we get it and sometimes we don't. >> that was jim zorn. coming up saturday night at 7:00, right here on nbc 4, week two of redskins showt

campbell finds chris cooley. the skins get no closer. the redskins drop the opener 23- 17 to the new york giants. >> i can tell you that we have a very good football team. i'm very impressed with some of the things that happen on the field. i think our challenge was to become more disciplined on the field, and that's going to be our challenge from week 1 to week 2. >> not discouraged at all. there was one game we lost the game but at the end of the day we know we're a better team than actually what we showed today. we've just got to bounce back this week. play even harder, play a little bit better. >> next week the redskins will play their home opener on sunday when the st. louis rams come to town. the rams lost to seattle today 28-0 but keep in mind the rams beat the skins last year 19-7. >>> there's always one guy, right? fans here at cleveland park bar and grill in northwest were ready for the first game of the regular season. as you can hear, a little disappointed the team didn't get a win. still a skins game as you know always a goo

clintin portis on the half back pass fails to connect with chris cooley.the redskins settle on a field goal. fourth quarter fourth and one on the two. pummeled for a two-yard loss. the goal line seemed to have an ante redskins' force field but jim zorn is a believer. he was not second-guessing his goal line call. >> if i could see every play that was going to fail before it failed, i'm with you. i wouldn't call it but i felt very confident and because we work on it, you know, we execute. we have to execute it. and i use that word sometimes, but we work on it. and it's not a grab bag situation. >> i think that we have to execute as a player better. you can talk about the play-calling but every play is designed to score. tweak here but as players we have to get it done. >> it's one of those things we've got to capitalize on it. we're all professionals. we've all been in this situation before and you know it's a matter of just digging yourself out of it. i mean we're going to wk on it. >> that's redskins' fullback mike sellers who actually dropped a short pas

jason campbell gets pressure and gets chris cooley over the middle for 15 yard. jason found him four times on the drive. cooley is seven catches for 87 yards on the day. second quarter, skins' offense looking for the end zone. campbell to make and he never drops the passes pl sellers could barely talk he was so bummed out after that one. another field goal would end up. 6-0, skins, handoff to steven jackson and this guy knows how to muscle through it. he knows how to run it down the field. pushed out of bound and finally by number 22, carlos rogers. a 62--yard gain. that play on the heels of steven jackson sets up this. the rams on third and goal from the 2 yard line and mark bolger throws a fade to la rant robinson. under two minutes to go in the half. skins trying to get something going. campbell hits a wide opened santanna moss and then moss fumbles to the ground. look. moss' knee not down on the play when he looses the ball. and former howard player, ronald bartell. now in the third quarter. 7-6, rams. redskins trying to find the end zone. jason campbell hook

jason campbell once again solid and for a second straight game, chris cooley was his leading receiver. cooley had seven catches for 73 yards, including this one that set up a first quarter field goal up. up 9-7 now, late in the fourth quarter, the redskins going for it on fourth and one on the 2. but they don't make it. so the rams get the ball back with just under 2:00 to go. this is when the redskins' defense stepped up. pressuring marc bulger and forcing four straight incomplete four passes. the redskins 9-7 winners. it was ugly but they will take it. >> it's hard to win in the nfl. any time you get a win, you take it for what it's worth and you move on and get ready for next week. we lost tohem 17-15. you would wrath beer the opposite end of im, trying to improve your season or rather be on the winning side of it and say, let's go? let's get better and win. >> i have to look at this thing really hard because it's my responsibility. i can do whatever -- i can wave all kinds of magic wands but i have to come up with the right play and put our guys in the exact -- in the right positi