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WASHINGTON -- When the Washington Redskins crash-landed yesterday at RFK Stadium, all of their parts were still intact. There may have been a few scratches on the fuselage, but everything was in working order.The NFC East title? Still within easy reach.The playoffs? Invitation already in hand.The Super Bowl? The Redskins are no less favorites to get there.A place in history? Well, coach Joe Gibbs kept saying a perfect season was only a dream, anyway.Reality dawned on the Redskins yesterday, in a 24-21 loss to the Dallas Cowboys, who, once again it seems, have become Washington's No. 1 public enemy.

*Baseball Cleveland Indians -- Traded P Bud Black (11-10, 3.53 ERA) to Toronto Blue Jays for minor-league P Mauro Gozzo and two players to be named.Kansas City Royals -- Purchased 1B Jeff Conine, C Brent Mayne and 3B Sean Berry from Class AA Memphis Chicks.Minnesota Twins -- Placed P David West (7-9, 5.10) on 60-day emergency disabled list, retroactive to Sept. 7. Purchased P Rich Garces' contract from Class AA Orlando SunRays. Recalled C Lenny Webster from Orlando.San Francisco Giants -- Activated P Rick Reuschel (2-6, 4.50)

WASHINGTON -- In the cold, cruel world of the NFL, dreams often die hard.The Washington Redskins buried one yesterday."I said, from the beginning, it was a dream. It's a good dream. We didn't get the dream," coach Joe Gibbs said after the Redskins were beaten for the first time this season, 24-21, by the Dallas Cowboys at RFK Stadium.The dream was the first 19-0 season in NFL history. The dream was duplicating the 17-0 perfect season the Miami Dolphins posted in 1972 -- the only perfect season in NFL history.

PONTIAC, Mich. -- This was going to be big. This was going to be close. A roaring Silverdome crowd showed up. The Detroit Lions showed up. If only the Dallas Cowboys had showed up.When they didn't, showing little of the resolve that carried them into the second round of the NFC playoffs, the Lions turned the anticipated tossup into a 38-6 blowout before 78,290 fans who got louder as the game wore on.The victory, the Lions' seventh in a row, moved them into...

NEW YORK -- Dan Reeves has tried to convince his players that this week's game is World War III.The New York Giants play the Phoenix Cardinals today in a game that, in effect, means little in terms of the Giants' attempt to get home-field advantage for the playoffs. That would seem to be big trouble for the coach in terms of motivation. But if Reeves needed any help focusing the team on Phoenix, all he had to do was turn on last year's game.When the two teams met in 1992 in Week 14, it was all Cardinals, 19-0.

Safety Stevon Moore was selected as the Ravens' 1998 recipient of the Ed Block Courage Award, as the foundation announced the 30 NFL clubs' selections yesterday.Each team selects one player -- through a vote of his teammates -- who exemplifies courage on and off the field and serves as a role model to his team and community. The 30 players will be honored at the 21st annual Ed Block Courage Awards banquet ar Martin's West on March 9.The event serves as a fund-raiser for the foundation, with proceeds benefiting the Courage House National Support Network of centers for abused children in eight NFL cities.

While fans pleaded with him to stay at a "Reggie Rally" in downtown Philadelphia, Reggie White of the Eagles all but said goodbye to the City of Brotherly Love yesterday.In a conference call with Philadelphia writers from his agent's office in Memphis, Tenn., White used words such as "discouraged" and "disappointed" to describe his relationship with the Eagles.That was a sharp contrast to the warm words he used when he was asked if he admired the Washington Redskins, considered the front-runner in the White sweepstakes.

HERNDON, Va. -- All 81 players were present when the Washington Redskins called roll at the start of their annual minicamp yesterday.It may be a different story when the club opens training camp in July in Carlisle, Pa.There is a chance that quarterback Mark Rypien, one of the team's eight unsigned veterans, will be a holdout.Like the rest of the unsigned veterans, including offensive linemen Russ Grimm and Joe Jacoby, Rypien decided to attend minicamp.But unsigned players aren't allowed to go to training camp, and Rypien and the Redskins seem to be far apart.

PHILADELPHIA -- The city of brotherly love wasn't so affectionate to its Buddy yesterday.Philadelphia Eagles fans taunted their former coach, and teased his players with banners hung on the old Veteran Stadium walls. The Eagles mugged his running game, smacked around his quarterback and bombed his secondary before sending Buddy Ryan on the next plane out of town.Tough town, this Philadelphia.Final score: Eagles 17, Arizona Cardinals 7, before a crowd of 64,952."A good old butt-kicking for homecoming, wasn't it?"