ABCDE TENNIS
Older and wiser No longer a teen phenom, Donald Young, 21, arrives at Legg Mason playing well again. D6
PRO FOOTBALL
Around the camps Ben Roethlisberger practices with the Steelers, and the Eagles’ DeSean Jackson is injured. D8
DONOVAN MCNABB: THE NEXT CHAPTER New team, same outlook I
n the weeks and months that have preceded the 2010 season, Donovan McNabb has told any- one who asks how the move to a new city and new team has made him feel like a rookie again. The Redskins’ new starting
quarterback also harkens back to 1999, when boos rained from the balcony of Radio City Music Hall in New York, where Philadelphia fans eagerly voiced their frustration with the Eagles’ first- round draft pick. A young McNabb, quick, mobile and personable, sprinted through an obstacle course of inter- views before stepping outside to a wait- ing limousine. Brad Childress, the Eagles’ quarter- backs coach at the time, had barely in- troduced himself before he shoved a 200-page playbook under McNabb’s nose, something to read during the late- night drive back to Philadelphia. The quarterback didn’t mind. He was will- ing to do anything. Even then, McNabb’s goal was clear. “I wanted to have a parade on Broad
Street and bring a Super Bowl champi- onship back to Philadelphia,” McNabb says. In Philadelphia, he never did. “We got so close,” he says, noting five division ti- tles and one losing Super Bowl appear- ance. Eleven years later, McNabb, charged with returning the Washington Red- skins to glory, says he feels like a rookie again — even though nearly everything about his life is different.
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Now, I’m more fired up than I’ve ever been in my coaching career.” Nolan Richardson, a longtime men’s coach who cleaned house with the WNBA’s Tulsa Shock. D3
After 11 years chasing a Super Bowl win in Philly, McNabb says he’s ready to finish quest in D.C. by Rick Maese
Learning from the sideline
Haynesworth is taught new defense by watching teammates, going to meetings
by Rick Maese
Through the first three days of training camp, Albert Haynesworth has lined up against trash bins. He’s run alone in the mornings and pedaled a stationary bike while his teammates have hit the practice field. His on-field work has been limited to tutorial sessions with defensive coach- es.
Whenever Haynesworth is allowed to re-join his teammates during practice, he’ll have a lot of catching up to do, his teammates and coaches say. The Wash- ington Redskins began installing their new defense in April, which means Haynesworth isn’t simply three days be- hind his teammates, like a training camp holdout might be; he’s more than three months behind. Haynesworth skipped Coach Mike Shanahan’s conditioning test on Saturday morning because of swelling in his knee — “There’s a setback already,” Shanahan said — which means the defensive tackle has missed the first five practices of camp. Haynesworth will not be allowed to practice with the team until he’s passed the conditioning test. But there is a sense of urgency in trying to bring him up to speed, and Haynes- worth was more visibly involved in the team’s preparations on Saturday, even spending the entire afternoon “jog- through” session on the field, watching his teammates and studying the team’s new 3-4 defense up close.
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A fresh start. For the first time since 1999, the Philadelphia Eagles begin training camp without Donovan McNabb under center. D7
Redskins Insider. Competition among three quarterbacks for two jobs — or maybe just one — behind McNabb begins to heat up. D8
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Training Camp, Day 3. The Redskins practice twice, and Albert Haynesworth
has swelling in his knee.
Coming up short in his lone Super Bowl appearance, above left, is what Donovan McNabb says drives him as he reboots his career with the Redskins, above. ELAINE THOMPSON/ASSOCIATED PRESS
JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST
Staying fit. On video, McNabb, 33, discusses how intense offseason
conditioning keeps him ready to play.
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As baseball’s trade deadline comes and goes, Dunn stays with Nationals by Adam Kilgore As 4 p.m. approached Saturday and
the Washington Nationals clubhouse had cleared out aside from a few players, Willie Harris counted down along with the clock on the clubhouse television. “Twenty seconds!” he said. Adam Dunn was sitting in the train-
er’s room, dressed in casual clothes, his name in the lineup. “Fifteen seconds!” Josh Willingham stood by, smiling and watching the television. Weeks of speculation, days packed with swirling rumors, were about to yield, finally, the truth. “Ten seconds!” The price for Dunn, General Manager
Mike Rizzo had said the day before, would remain high and not come down a bit at the deadline. The Chicago White Sox had offered starting pitcher Edwin Jackson after prying him from the Ari- zona Diamondbacks, according to a source, and Rizzo had turned them down. “Three!” The New York Yankees had also made
themoment isalways betterthanthe highlight.
a run at Dunn days before. Rizzo turned them down. “Two!” Their phones had rung up until the last minute, but the Nationals, it had be- come clear, had not gotten what they wanted for Dunn. “One!” When 4 p.m. struck, on the nose, the baseball world experienced an anti-cli-
max and Dunn was still a National. Five minutes later, he walked out of the train- er’s room and pulled on his uniform, a curly W over his heart. “It’s over,” Dunn said. “I’m glad it’s
over.”
Rizzo had fielded calls for Dunn and a host of other Nationals — far more calls
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