former wizards head coach eddie jordan goes back to school at his alma mater. he grew up in d.c., was a star player at archbishop carroll and later rutgers university. he then played seven years in the nba before beginning a long coaching career. he's always been considered one of the good guys in the sport and you don't have to ask the millionaires he used to coach for verification. you can just check in with some local teenagers. lindsay murphy has the story. reporter: his whistle sounds exactly the same. >> let's. go bring it in, fell blows of. reporter: his voice as strong as ever. >> square around and pivot. look at the cutter. look at the post, ball fake and throw it up there. reporter: his message? straightforward and simple. >> i can get nice together, come on. i can back up a little bit to get my rhythm, boom, boom, boom, okay? i don't have to stand here and just wait for them. reporter: eddie jordan is far from the nba sidelines where he spent 18 seasons as a coach, years removed from his time with the wizards from 2003 to 2008. >> i love gilbert. to

>> this year, eddie jordan is here coaching the freshman basketball team at carroll. >> we're caughtthe screen and he is open. >> for a man who coached in the nba for 18 seasons, this is a new experience. >> i'm getting just as much satisfaction here as i would playing against the celtics and winning games against the celtics. because you see growth here. it's the most crucial part of their learning in basketball. you know? someone told me, you know, eddie, as a nba player, nba players remember their teammates. players on this level remember their coaches the rest of their lives. that's why i wanted to coach and it seems like this is my calling, even it's for a year or maybe more, but i had to do this. i had to do this. because this is why i coach. every possession, you're playing as hard as you can. >> jordan has been out of the nba since getting fired by the philadelphia 76ers in april of last year. but he's still getting paid. a lot. the remaining $3 million on his contract which makes him probably the highest paid fresh man boebl coach in the country. a lot of things he's doing a

. ♪ >>> former wizards head coach eddie jordan and one of my favorite coaches is still coaching, onlynot in the nba. and it's not even in college. in fact, the most successful wizards coach in recent history is doing something that he's always wanted to do and for him it might be the most rewarding job he's ever had. ♪ >> it wasn't very long ago that eddie jordan was here, court side at verizon center. guiding the wizards to the playoffs four straight times. the most successful stretch for the franchise in 30 years. >> the flag! >> this year, eddie jordan is here coaching the freshman basketball team at carroll. >> we're caught behind the screen and he is open. >> for a man who coached in the nba for 18 seasons, this is a new experience. >> i'm getting just as much satisfaction here as i would playing against the celtics and winning games against the celtics. because you see growth here. it's the most crucial part of their learning in basketball. you know? someone told me, you know, eddie, as a nba player, nba players remember their teammates. players on this level remember their coac

i'm dave feldman, eddie jordan gets back to coaching and his own team the wiz looks to start winning,l football league. >>> not a lot of people thought it would be tebow time in the pro season. the broncos backed into the playoffs with an 8-8 record somehow got a home game and had to host perennial post season powerhouse pittsburgh, a potential problem, right? tebow and the broncos entering as big underdogs, 2nd quarter broncos trailing 6-0 and tebow connects with westfield high and virginia tech grad eddie royal. 30 yards for the touchdown, denver in front 7-6. later 2nd quarter more tebow, this time he keeps it and runs, it 8 yards for the score. broncos built a 20-6 lead. steelers trail 23-16, roethlisberger steps up in the pocket and fires deep for jerricho cotchery. 31 yards for a touchdown, tied the game at 23, forced overtime. first play of the overtime tebow fakes a

. >>> eddy jordan grew up in d.c.ar player at archbishop carroll and later rutgers university and played seven years in the nba before beginning a long coaching career. he is still coaching but this time his players are barely old enough to drive. lindsay murphy has more. >> reporter: his whistle sounds exactly the same. >> let's go. bring it in, fellows. >> reporter: his voice as strong as ever. >> square around, pivot, look at the cutter, look at the post, ball fake and flow opportunity there. >> reporter: his message, straightforward and simple. >> i can get myself together, back i'm little bit to get my rhythm. i don't have to stand here and just wait for them. >> reporter: eddy jordan is far from the nba sidelines where he spent 18 seasons as a coach. years removed from his time with the wizards from 2003 to 2008. >> i loved gilbert. to me, he was the heart and soul of the wizards when i coached there. obviously, the leaders were caron and antoine. gilbert brought what you need on that level. they allowed me to h

what is it like having eddie jordan as a coach? it's cool.e to listen to him and do what he tells us to do. >> i have to see it to believe it. now that he's here, it opened my eyes more to learn about basketball now that he can coach. >> reporter: jordan will be the first to tell you this is one of the most important jobs. if the right opportunity presented itself, he would like to get back in the nba. >> people say don't you want to get back in? you what happened? i hate to want for someone to get fired for me to get back in and that is how it has to happen. we'll see how it plays out. >> lindsay murphy, fox 5 sports. >> he would like to coach geen and told lindsay he -- coach again. he would prefer to be a couple of seats to the right. an assistant coach and for now, he's good being the highest- paid coach in the history of high school freshmen basketball, the sixers are still paying him $3 million. >> oh. >> laura, shawn, and back to the franchise who makes close to that, sue palka. [ laughter ] >> such a great attitude. >> and that is gre

coming up on sports xtra it's back to school for former wizards head coach eddie jordan. >> that's adoing well, but their old coach eddie jordan is doing great. >> he's a great guy. >>> a special inawe heating up in new york, should -- issue heating up in new york. should food stamp recipients have to get fingerprinted? we have the story coming up.  >>> should food stamp recipients be required to get fingerprinted? that's a question up for debate in new york city. some public officials call it humiliating and immoral, but others say it will help prevent fraud. fox's dan bowens reports. >> i feel violated. it's not fair, not. >>> if. reporter: for many public benefits are the option of last resort and feel the city's policy requiring applicants to give their fingerprints just makes them feel worse. >> what do finger prints have to do with hunger? reporter: this week during his state of the state address governor cuomo agreed and said may even be keeping people from applying at all. >> i understand fraud detection. i understand fingerprinting, but don't make a child go to bed hungry

he shouldn't have been hired plus eddie jordan fired, dysfunctional d.c. we'll see what happens, but wizards back in action tomorrow night. >> thanks, feldy. >>> a line of people 1/4-mile long waiting to honor joe paterno. we'll show you some of the surprising faces who honored the former coach today. >>> also a show of defiance from dozens of d.c. firefighters caught on tape coming up.  >>> a somber day in state college, pennsylvania. students, faculty and friend all gathered to remember former penn state football coach joe paterno. today's viewing is the first of several days of memorials and tributes to honor the legendary coach. reporter: former player rich caravella shed tears, then leaned on former teammates for support. the pain of coach joe paterno's death taking its toll after he left the private visitation. >> the hardest part was walking out. it's definitive. it's done. he's not with us anymore. reporter: wearing shades to hide sorrow, linebacker lavar arrington smiled sharing his favorite memory. >> when i used to slap him

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and eddie jordan, the prosecutor out of new orleans, and the assistant prosecutor go to the owner of the san francisco 49ers and says if we beat you in court, you're going to lose the team and you're going to go to prison. are you sure your story's straight? so debartolo flipped. and he comes back and says, okay, now that 400,000 was extortion. so he flies here to baton rouge, and he says, he says i was a victim. now, the fbi had recorded some hundred, 200 conversations where debartolo had continually called edwards say, what do can you hear? we'll do whatever we need to do. edwards had only initiated three of those calls, so it's really hard to balance out who was the real victim here based on that. when he was convicted of 17 counts in may of 2000, he goes to prison in october of 2002 and stays there for eight years and three months. he got a ten-year sentence which was double the prescription. at that time they had prescriptions on sentences, and the federal judge because he has that discretion just doubled the sentence. so, um, he could have gotten out in less than fife years und

he stayed on the defense team right up until and eddie jordan, the u.s. prosecutor out of new orleans and the assistant prosecutor, jim letton go to the owner of the san francisco 49ers and says if we met you in court, not only are you going to lose the 49ers. you're going to lose your fortune and you're going to spend a lot of time in prison so are you sure your story's straight? and so eddie flipped. and he comes back and he says, okay, now that 400,000 was extortion. so he flies here to baton rouge and he says -- he says, i was a victim. now, the fbi had recorded some 100, 200 conversations where eddie had continually called edwards and said, what do you hear? what do we need to do? we'll do whatever we need to do. only edwards had only initiated three of those calls. so it's really hard to balance out who was the real victim here, based on that. when he was convicted of 17 counts in -- in may of 2000, he goes to prison in october of 2002 and stay there is for eight years and three months. he got a 10-year sentence which was double the prescription. at