D2 DIGEST TENNIS
Monfils tops Federer, will face Soderling next Gael Monfils saved five match
points Saturday to beat top-seed- ed Roger Federer, 7-6 (9-7), 6-7 (7-1), 7-6 (7-4) and reach the Paris Masters final against Robin Soderling. Soderling saved three match
points before overcoming Mi- chael Llodra of France, 6-7 (7-0), 7-5, 7-6 (8-6). Monfils faced fivematch points
in the 12th game of the final set before forcing the tiebreaker with an ace. Federer shanked a forehand to
give Monfils two match points, andtheFrenchmanconverted the first with a service winner. “He’s someone I admire a lot,”
Monfils said about Federer. “He’s a legend of tennis, the legend, and beating him is a beautiful victory. I will remember it for my whole life.” Federer had a 5-0 record
againstMonfils before their semi- final.
SOCCER U.S. midfielder Stuart Holden
scored his first Bolton goal to clinch a 3-2 victory over Wolver- hampton in the English Premier League, while compatriot Brad Friedel conceded two goals in four minutes asAston Villa threw away a two-goal lead in the final 10 minutes for a 2-2 draw with ManchesterUnited. . . . U.S. midfielder Michael Brad-
ley scored as Borussia Mo- enchengladbach climbed out of last place in the German Bundes- liga with a 4-0 victory over Co- logne. Bradley fired Gladbach’s second into the bottom of the net from the edge of the area in the 70th minute.
PROFOOTBALL The Denver Broncos have
stripped star linebacker D.J. Wil- liams of his captaincy for the season and won’t start him Sun- day against Kansas City following his arrest on suspicion of drunk- en driving. The Broncos also fined their leading tackler an undisclosed amount for missing practice and a meeting Friday when he was in a detox facility.
GOLF Roland Thatcher remains on
track in an improbable bid to keep his PGA Tour card, shooting a 2-under-par 70 at the Children’s Miracle Network Classic in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., to take a four- stroke lead over ChrisStroud into the final round. Thatcher began the week 179th
on the money list and needs to win or finish alone in second at the season’s final tournament to vault into the top 125—the cutoff for full status—to retain his card. Nos. 126-150 get partial status. . . . TigerWoods struggled with his
putter and shot an even-par 71 in the third round of the Australian Masters inMelbourne.He was 10 shots behind leader Adam Bland, leaving him resigned to going an entire year without a victory. . . . Adam Scott shot a 2-under 69
to take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the Singapore Open, a tournament he has won twice before at the Sentosa Golf Club. . . . Suzann Pettersen moved into
position for her first LPGA Tour victory of the year, shooting a 3-under 69 to take a one-stroke lead in the Lorena Ochoa Invita- tional in Guadalajara,Mexico.
COLLEGEFIELDHOCKEY Top-seeded Maryland beat
Massachusetts, 4-2, in College Park in the first round of the NCAA tournament. Katie O’Don- nell had a goal and an assist for theTerrapins (20-1),whowill play at home again Sunday against
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American StuartHolden celebrates his first Premier League goal in his Bolton Wanderers’ 3-2 victory over Wolverhampton on Saturday.
Connecticut, which knocked out American, 3-2 in a shootout. Jaclyn Anspach (Severna Park)
scored both goals for the Eagles (18-4). . . . Third-seeded Virginia topped
visiting Michigan State on an overtime score from Elly Buckley, who scored two goals for the Cavaliers (17-3), who will host Princeton on Sunday.
MISC. Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull
put pressure on championship leader FernandoAlonso by taking pole position for the season-end- ing Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in the United Arab Emirates. Alonso still put himself in good position to clinch the championship by finishing third in qualifying. . . . Carl Edwards won the Nation-
wide Series race at Phoenix Inter- national Raceway. He also will start from the pole in Sunday’s Sprint Cup race. . . . Phoenix Suns point guard
Steve Nash announced that he and his wife, Alejandra, are in the process of a divorce. He revealed the situation in a statement Sat- urday, a day after the birth of the couple’s son and third child, Mat- teo. . . . The FloridaMarlins have trad-
ed outfielder Cameron Maybin to the San Diego Padres for right- handed relievers Edward Mujica and RyanWebb. . . . Marlies Schild of Austria won
the first women’s World Cup sla- lom of the season, edging Olym- pic champion Maria Riesch of Germany by 0.03 of a second in a race in Levi, Finland. Lindsey Vonn was sixth. . . . Forward Jeff Carter signed a
long contract extension with the Philadelphia Flyers, a deal report- ed by several media outlets to be for 11 years and worth $58 mil- lion. . . . Shani Davis won his second
straight World Cup race, edging Simon Kuipers of the Nether- lands in the 1,500 meters in Heerenveen,Netherlands. . . . Four people were injured after
a bull jumped a fence and bound- ed into the crowd at the Canadian Finals Rodeo in Edmonton, Al- berta. Three spectators were treated by paramedics on site and released Friday night at Rexall Place. The fourth person was tak- en to the hospital. An update on the spectator’s condition wasn’t immediately available Saturday. Event organizer Northlands
said in a statement that this was the first such incident with a bull at a Canadian Finals Rodeo. —From news services and staff reports
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Republican JonRunyan waves to his followers at his victory party after defeating John Adler inNewJersey's 3rd Congressional District. “It’s not a career,”Runyan, who played 14 seasons as anNFLoffensive tackle, said about politics. “It’s something I’m passionate about.”
Runyan will help protect Boehner's right flank this time, not McNabb's Runyan said his football ca-
BYMARKMASKE IN MOUNT LAUREL, N.J.
J
on Runyan is scheduled to be in Washington on Mon- day, but it’s unlikely there will be time for him to
squeeze in a trip to FedEx Field that night to watch his former team, the Philadelphia Eagles, play the Redskins and the quar- terback he once labored to safe- guard, DonovanMcNabb. It’s his wife’s birthday, for one
thing. And there are other obli- gations as well. The reason Ru- nyan will be in D.C. is to partici- pate in his Capitol Hill orienta- tion. Runyan, an NFL offensive
tackle for 14 seasons, was elected to the U.S. House of Representa- tives this month as a Republican congressman from New Jersey. The man who protected Mc- Nabb’s right flank for nine sea- sons now will help do the same thing for the nextHouse speaker, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio). “What dinner is that night?”
Runyan asked here in his cam- paign office last week. “I think that’s leader Boehner’s dinner that night.” It is a typical campaign office
in a suburban strip mall, the Princeton Place shopping center alongside Church Road, a few turns from theNewJersey Turn- pike, not far from the Pennsylva- nia border and Philadelphia. There’s a Tony Soprano’s Pizza next door, and the shopping cen- ter also includesaflorist,aliquor store and aWawa. Inside, there are folding
chairs, a fewdesks and a wooden table in the front room, with campaign posters on the walls and a New York Post front page — with the headline “Voters Set to Repudiate Obama” — tacked up.
A few campaign staffers
worked nearby and the phones rang virtually nonstop as Ru- nyan, 36, sat at a conference table in a room at the back of the office. “I’d been thinking about get-
ting involved in politics for quite a fewyears, more on a local level than anything,” Runyan said. “I really got involved through the charity work I’d done, meeting a lot of local mayors, councilmen and all that kind of stuff. After a while, they started saying, ‘You know everybody in the room. That’s part of thegame.Haveyou ever thought about it?’ The more they said that, the more I started thinking about it.” Runyan was recruited into the
race in New Jersey’s 3rd Con- gressional District by Bill Lay- ton, the Republican chairman in Burlington County. Layton said he’d been considering other can- didates, including elected offi- cials and business owners, but was coming up empty. Layton was eating a meal at his golf club with his wife Amanda and son Will, then 10, last fall, when Runyan, also a member of the club, walked by. “My wife and son said, ‘Get
Jon Runyan to run,’ ” Layton said. “So I walked over. I knew him a little. Everyone at the club loves him. I said, ‘We have to go to dinner. I want to talk to you about something.’ ” But Runyan was busy rehabil- itating his knee after microfrac-
ture surgery, and was hoping to catch on with an NFL team. Runyan didn’t know Layton well and when Layton placed a fol- low-up phone call, Runyan didn’t immediately respond, Layton said. So Layton asked DawnMarie Addiego, a Republi- can state assemblywoman whose daughter went to school with Runyan’s daughter, to call Runyan’s wife, Loretta. “They went through my wife
first,” Runyan said. “She could have blewthe whole idea off and not even brought it up to me.” But she didn’t, and a meeting
between Runyan and Layton over lunch was arranged. “I told him football is a full-
contact job, and so is politics,” Layton said. “I told him at lunch, ‘I can’t putmyself in an athlete’s shoes. I never played at that level. But if you can’t play foot- ballany more,what betterway to compete than the political are- na?’ ” Runyan agreed to run. “I was surprised when every-
one told me he was running for Congress,” former Eagles left tackle Tra Thomas said last week. “I knewhe had been inter- ested in broadcasting, and I thought he might go into that rather than politics. But when I heard he was running, with the good name he built up for him- self around here, I knew he’d have a great shot at winning.”
Preparing for a race The situation became more
complicated when Runyan signed with the San Diego Char- gers last November, believing the team had a chance to give him his third career Super Bowl appearance after one with the Tennessee Titans and one with the Eagles. “Everyone was like, ‘He’s not
running. He’s out of the race,’ ” Layton said. “But he was always like, ‘There is no way this is a long-term thing. My knee is not there. This ismy last hurrah.’He wanted to try to get to the Super Bowl one more time, and he’d come to grips with the fact he wasn’t going to play football af- ter that. He said, ‘Look, I’m run- ning for Congress. You guys hold down the fort here, and I’ll do all the groundwork from Califor- nia.’
“He was on the phone all the
time,” Layton said. “He flewback a couple times. He was getting up to speed.He was doing all the things a candidate needs to do. I’ve never seen a candidate work
as hard as he did.” Runyan didn’t get much play-
ing time for the Chargers. But he did play much of the regular season finale against the Red- skins, and he felt the effects afterward. His surgically re- paired knee was swollen badly and he barely could walk for a couple days, he said. A right tackle who was listed
at6feet 7and330poundsduring his playing career, Runyan was drafted by theHouston Oilers in 1996 out of the University of Michigan. He played in all 16 regular season games for 12 straight years between the ’97 and 2008 seasons, first with the Oilers and Titans franchise and then with the Eagles.He signed a six-year, $30 million contract, then a record for an offensive lineman, when he left the Titans for the Eagles as a free agent in February 2000.
Fun days in Philadelphia Runyan helped McNabb and
Coach Andy Reid reach five NFC championship games and a Su- per Bowl. He also saw McNabb deal with plenty of controversy in Philadelphia. So while Ru- nyan said he rarely watches NFL games these days, he did attend the Redskins’ victory over the Eagles in Philadelphia this sea- son and he does have a sense of what’s going on in D.C. in the aftermath ofMcNabb’s benching late in a loss to the Detroit Lions two weeks ago. Runyan said he thinks Mike Shanahan, in his first season as coach of the Redskins, is at- tempting to set a tone for the organization the way Runyan once sawhis former coaches, the Titans’ Jeff Fisher and Reid, do. “A lot of times when you do
switch teams like that, you don’t know what you’re getting your- self into,” Runyan said. “What is the dynamic? What is this coach going to try to do? I think a lot of people here in Philly witnessed it with Andy Reid early on.He took no B.S. There were guys like getting cut daily. If a guy loafed in practice or whatever, the guy was out the door. But creating that environment — sometimes you don’t know what you’re get- ting into when you step into those situations. “I was fortunate enough with
my first two head coaches to be in a situation where it was a young guy trying to set a tone andtrying to build for the future. I think that’s kind of what you’re running into inWashington.”
reer prepared him for a political campaign during which he was scrutinized about whether he paid his property taxes on time, past business-related lawsuits and a tax lien against one of his companies, a 1995 arrest for driving under the influence while in college, even allegations that hewasa dirty, rule-breaking player in the NFL. His Democratic opponent,
Rep. John Adler, asked Runyan during one debate to name a Supreme Court decision from the last 10 to 15 years with which he strongly disagreed. Runyan, according to news accounts, re- plied “Dred Scott,” referring to the 1857 decision that upheld slavery. Layton called the debate epi-
sode and the unflattering public- ity that it produced for Runyan unfortunate. “Jon is no dumb jock,” Layton
said. “He’s just not. He’s one of the most thoughtful people I’ve met in this business.” Runyan said during the cam-
paign that he took responsibility for his past mistakes. “People don’t realize what you
go through as a professional athlete, through the criticism privately, the criticism in the public realmanddealing with all that stuff,” Runyan said last week. “That transition, it was a mirror image. The subject mat- ter was different, but it was a mirror image—taking the per- sonal attacks constantly . . . and being able to also have that thick skin, letting that stuff roll off your back and having the confi- dence in yourself to know what you’re doing, what you believe in, is right. You have to have that.” As part of the Republican
takeover of the House, Runyan said he hopes to have an impact in Washington on helping to reduce federal spending. “I said when I got in the NFL I
wanted to play 10 years,”Runyan said. “I played 14. . . . It’s pretty much the same deal. It’s not a career. It’s something I’m pas- sionate about, that I truly want- ed to be involved with and really help to change the direction of this country because I truly be- lieve with the direction we’re headed in, I’m not going to be able to leave a better place formy children and grandchildren. . . . I think there are a lot of people out there that feel that way right now.”
maskem@washpost.com
JonRunyan, right, pushes the Redskins’ Chris Wilson away from then-Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb in a 2008 game won by Washington. “I said when I got in the NFLI wanted to play 10 years,” Runyan said. “I played 14.”
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