ABCDE D SPORTS tuesday, august 24, 2010 COMINGTOMORROW1


High school football Get a jump-start on the upcoming season with team-by-team previews and top 20 rankings.


PROBASKETBALL


Together again Kwame Brown, once the top pick of Michael Jordan and the Wizards, rejoins the former NBA great in Charlotte. D2


Redskins ready to move on from spat


Players, coaches tired of Haynesworth saga, say it’s not productive


BY RICKMAESE As the Redskins returned to


practice and CoachMike Shanah- an and his controversial defen- sive lineman, Albert Haynes- worth, bit their respec- tive tongues, attention focused at least momentarily on the football field Monday. And there, regard- less of which medical condition has ailedHaynesworth orwhathe thinks about theheadcoach, “he’s got a ways to go,” said defensive coordinator JimHaslett. Midway through the pre-


season schedule, Haynesworth is still working out with the second- string defensive line and coaches say they can’t predict when he might be ready to join the start- ers. After missing nearly three full practices last week,Haynesworth participated fully onMonday, lin- ing up at both nose tackle and defensive end. But even if tensions between


Haynesworth and Shanahan somehow cool, the defensive line- man still has plenty of work ahead of him. “Think about it,” Haslett said.


“We’ve been out here a long time. You add up all the [organized team activities] . . . minicamp, and practices here, I’dsay it’s over 40 practices, and he’s got six in. He’s got a ways to go.He needs to practice these next three weeks, practice at a high level and play


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When: Saturday, 7 p.m. Where: NewMeadowlands Stadium.


JONATHAN NEWTON/THE WASHINGTON POST


Asked if Stephen Strasburg, above, could be shut down for the season,Manager Jim Riggleman said, “It’s just too early to tell.”


BLOGS,MULTIMEDIAANDCHATS washingtonpost.com/sports First Things First Today, 9:30 a.m. Tracee Hamilton discusses Stephen Strasburg and more. The Early Lead Cindy Boren keeps you up to date on everything blog-worthy and tweet-worthy. Ask Boswell Today, 11 a.m. Can’t get enough of Strasburg? Neither can Boz. Just ask him.


BASEBALL


Bad day gets worse After putting their ace on the disabled list for the second time, the Nats show little life in a 9-1 loss to the visiting Chicago Cubs. D3


I got released by one of the worst teams in baseball at the time. I felt like, ‘If I can’t make it with [them]. . . gosh.”Ex-Nat Colby Lewis, long before finding success in Texas. D3


Strasburg headed to the DL for a second time


PITCHER TO HAVE ANOTHER EXAM Zimmermann will assume spot in the rotation


BY DAVE SHEININ AND ADAM KILGORE


The mystery of what is going


on inside Stephen Strasburg’s prized right arm, a question that has left the phenom’s season in limbo and the Washington Na- tionals’ brain trust in a state of


angst, will endure for at least another 72 hours. Strasburg’s ab- sence from a major league mound, meantime, will last at least another twoweeks. Thirteendays after coming off


the disabled list following a bout of shoulder stiffness, Strasburg, 22,went right back on itMonday


—this timewitha forearm/elbow injury suffered Saturday night in Philadelphia.AnMRIexamtaken Sunday, while ultimately incon- clusive, gave the team enough cause for concern to shut him down, at least temporarily, and order amoredetailedexam. Sunday’s MRI exam, accord-


ingtoGeneralManagerMikeRiz- zo, showed “something on there that led us to set up another ar- throgramMRI,withinjecteddye, sowe can get a full view ofwhat’s


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“Playing the quarterback position, you get blamed for a lot of stuff.” —Jason Campbell on his tenure with the Redskins


WIN MCNAMEE/GETTY IMAGES TRACEE HAMILTON


As Va. Tech rises, Beamer stays in place


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t takes a lot to surprise Frank Beamer. After 29 years of coaching college football—


he’s entering his 24th season at Virginia Tech—he’s seen it all: healthy seasons, injury-plagued seasons, seasons thatmet expectations and seasons that fell woefully short. The players change, the opponents change – heck, the conference has changed. In Beamer’s tenure, the Hokies have gone from independent to the Big East to the ACC, where the Hokies are the preseason favorite. Beamer has been the


constant for the Hokies, and a contract extension announced this weekend will keep himin that role until the 2016 season. If he chooses to retire then, he’ll be 70, with 30 years as a Hokie under his belt. It’s nearly as hard today to


carve a 30-year college coaching career at one school as it is for a major league baseball player to remain with the same organization throughout his entire career. Beamer’s first six seasons at Virginia Tech


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“Last week, the first time being in a different uniform playing a game just felt different. But this week, it was like: ‘Okay, you got that first game out of the way. Now let’s turn to the second game.’ ” said Jason Campbell, who has started two preseason games for the Raiders after being traded from the Redskins in April.


CAMPBELLFACES CAREERCROSSROADS


After five rocky years in D.C., veteran QB has a second chance in Oakland BY MARK MASKE IN CHICAGO I


t took two preseason games for Jason Campbell to stop feeling like the deposed quarterback of theWashingtonRedskins and to begin feeling like the rightful quarterback of theOakland Raiders. ¶ “Itwasweirdwhen I first got here,” Campbell said late Saturday night, standing in a rapidly emptying visitor’s locker roomat Soldier Field after hemade his second preseason start for the Raiders. “But asmonths have gone by, it’s kind of like getting farther away now.


Last week, the first time being in a different uniform playing a game just felt different. But this week, it was like, ‘Okay, you got that first game out of the way.Now let’s turn to the second game.’ ” ¶ Campbell’s five-year tenure with the Redskins was all about change. He endured new head coaches, offensive coordinators and offensive systems. When the Redskins — under another new coach, Mike Shanahan, and a new general manager, Bruce Allen — stopped believing that the former first-round draft choice was the answer for them at quarterback, the biggest change of all camewhenCampbellwas traded to theRaiders inApril. ¶ TheRedskins’ newregime had traded for Philadelphia Eagles quarterback DonovanMcNabb,making Campbell’s departure inevitable.


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