Millen Sees One Fault in Beuerlein

Former Raider quarterback Steve Beuerlein, who led the Dallas Cowboys to a 20-10 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers Thursday, was also impressive last Sunday when he replaced injured Troy Aikman and rallied the Cowboys to a 24-21 upset of the previously unbeaten Washington Redskins.

His performance came as no surprise to Matt Millen, a Redskin linebacker, and Beuerlein’s former teammate with the Raiders.

“When he came in, I told everyone that this guy’s good,” Millen said. “He has only one fault. He went to Notre Dame.”

Millen played for Penn State.

Trivia time: Michigan’s Desmond Howard holds the school’s single-season scoring record with 138 points. Whose record did he break?

Thanks, but . . . : An agent representing 26 Soviet athletes sent a fax to promoter Al Franken asking him to consider them for the Feb. 15 Sunkist Invitational at the Sports Arena.

Included were Yuriy Chernyega, a hammer thrower, and Sergey Koval, a marathon runner.

The marathon man would have to run 287 1/2 laps indoors to complete 26 plus miles. The hammer thrower? Forget it.

Not enough: Arizona State Coach Larry Marmie didn’t save his job by beating Arizona, 37-14, last Saturday.

Neither did USC’s Jeff Cravath in 1950. His Trojans upset Notre Dame, 9-7, in the final game of the season. Then, he was fired.

Cravath had a 2-5-1 record in 1950 and an overall mark of 54-28-8, including three Rose Bowl appearances. Marmie is 6-5 and 22-21-1.

P.S. USC didn’t fire another head coach until 1986, when Ted Tollner was released.

No matinees: Hall of Famer Rogers Hornsby, when he was managing, didn’t like his players to watch movies in the daytime when they had a night game. He said, “Your eyes flicker in the dark and then you come out and try to play baseball under the lights and it has some effect on you.”

Wimps: A storm dumped several inches of snow at Kinnick Stadium last Saturday before Iowa’s game against Minnesota. Officials twice had to stop the game and ask fans to stop pelting them and the players with snowballs.

Paranoia?Miami quarterback Gino Torretta says that his team doesn’t get enough respect.

“Since we’ve won so much in the past, everybody is looking for a way not to give us another national championship,” he said. “When Florida State was No. 1, everybody was saying why they were No. 1. We get to be No. 1, and everybody says why we shouldn’t be No. 1.”

That attitude puts pressure on the Hurricanes to win handily Saturday against San Diego State. The Aztecs are 8-2-1, but unranked and a four-touchdown underdog.

Average kid: Jennifer Capriati, the 15-year-old tennis star, describes her childhood as normal.

“Others might call it amazing,” said Bill Glauber of the Baltimore Evening Sun. “This is a teen, who has a Mazda and a BMW (but no driver’s license), who is the touring pro for a resort, who has her own clothing line, and who pitches pasta and gasoline.”

Trivia answer: Howard broke Tom Harmon’s record of 117 points set in 1940, when Harmon became Michigan’s only Heisman Trophy winner.

Quotebook: Florida State Coach Bobby Bowden when asked if discipline was the key to winning: “If it was, Army and Navy would be playing for the national championship every year.”