Even Washington Might Agree Miami’s No. 1--in Trash Talk

Miami’s football players are known for their trash talk and taunting. Now they’ve taken on the Washington Huskies.

Miami center Kelvin Harris said Washington would be the fourth-ranked team in Florida, a tie with Florida A&M.;

The top-ranked Hurricanes are annoyed that the No. 2-rated Huskies gained on them in this week’s poll.

“If I had my druthers, instead of playing Colorado, or Nebraska (in the Orange Bowl), we’d line up against them and settle this once and for all,” Harris said. “We’d play them in Seattle; it wouldn’t make any difference.”

Steve Emtman, Washington’s dominating defensive tackle, differs, saying: “I don’t see how anyone can say they’re better than us.”

Alley . . . oops: UCLA’s players celebrated their 24-21 victory over USC last Saturday night in the Coliseum locker room by throwing Coach Terry Donahue into the air.

Fun is fun, but Donahue came very close to being scraped off the low ceiling.

Trivia question: What do Raider quarterback Jay Schroeder and Ram assistant coach Jeff Fisher have in common?

Well-kept secret: On this date in 1960, the Raiders played their first American Football League game at the Coliseum as a visiting team from Oakland.

They lost to the Los Angeles Chargers, 52-28, before a “crowd” of 15,075.

Bono-fide: Steve Bono, the San Francisco 49ers’ third-string quarterback who carved up the Rams Monday night, set a UCLA school record--since broken by Tommy Maddox--with 399 passing yards against Brigham Young in 1983 at the Rose Bowl.

Curiously, the opposing quarterback was Steve Young, currently the 49ers’ injured No. 2 quarterback. Despite Bono’s big day, BYU won, 37-35.

True enough: When the Winnipeg City Council was debating whether it should continue financing the Jets hockey team, Councilman Roger Young argued instead for a new sewer system, more roads and several bridges.

“It may not be as exciting to flush your toilet as to watch NHL hockey, but it’s a lot more essential,” he said.

Trivia answer: Fisher, while playing defensive back for USC in 1980, deflected Schroeder’s pass into the hands of UCLA’s Freeman McNeil for the Bruins’ winning touchdown.

Quotebook: Larry Holmes, on coming out of retirement at 41 to resume his boxing career: “I’ve been doing this for 25 years. It’s kind of hard after you finish. What does a writer do after he’s finished? He goes to a bar and starts thinking about something to write.”