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BASEBALL ON WASHINGTONPOST.COM/SPORTS Nats, O’s riding high Nationals Journal Today, 7:10 p.m. Chat while the Nats try to clinch the NL East division title. Cavs find a leader Both the Nationals and the Linebacker Henry Coley Orioles are closing in on playoff Post Sports Live Today, 11 a.m. The panel will have plenty to discuss after an eventful weekend. emerges as a motivating berths. Is a Beltway World force for after its Series on the horizon? A1 The Insider Check in throughout the day for all of the latest news and notes from Redskins Park. win over Louisville. D3 No surgery for Griffin; no return date either

Dr. [Robert] Anderson, a foot and ankle With Cousins pitching in, time for a change-up Redskins QB to wear a cast, specialist, and get it casted up and we’ll just go from there.” Kirk Cousins does his against the Jacksonville Jaguars seek opinion from specialist Griffin injured his ankle early in the best work in the pocket, provided a glimpse of what to expect. before determining timeline first quarter of Washington’s 41-10 victo- and that’s where After Cousins replaced Griffin in the ry over Jacksonville as he rolled to the Washington Redskins first quarter, the team’s and right, tried to elude a defender and Coach Jay Gruden wants play-caller quickly got in sync. Cousins BY MIKE JONES launched a pass 20 yards downfield to Cousins to stay while he completed his first 12 attempts. Overall, wide receiver DeSean Jackson. X-rays Jason Reid fills in for injured he connected on 22 of 33 passes for 250 The Washington Redskins know Rob- conducted Sunday showed a dislocation quarterback Robert yards and two . He had no ert Griffin III will not need surgery to of the ankle, but an MRI exam was Griffin III. The designed running plays turnovers and an impressive 109.4 repair his dislocated left ankle. They necessary for doctors to learn the extent Gruden called for Griffin will be while Washington believe there’s a chance the quarterback of the damage. scrapped from the playbook, and that’s amassed 449 yards. Gruden wasn’t will return to the field this season. But Had Griffin also fractured his ankle, only one of several changes coming on surprised. they say they have no idea exactly when he would have needed surgery and likely offense. “Kirk is a special guy,” Gruden said that will be. would have missed the remainder of the With a more comfortable pocket after the game, his tone conveying “We’ll know in a few more weeks as season. Gruden said he didn’t know passer in Cousins, Gruden intends to excitement about Cousins’s potential. JONATHAN NEWTON/ far as how long he will be out,” Coach Jay what kind of ligament damage Griffin utilize more of the team’s West Coast “He can handle it mentally and Robert Griffin III dislocated his ankle Gruden said Monday afternoon. “We’re had suffered but said it’s clear the passing game. Sunday’s 41-10 laugher REID CONTINUED ON D6 against the Jaguars on Sunday. goingtosendhisresultsoftheMRIoffto REDSKINS CONTINUED ON D6

Mitch Korn’s bag of tricks Nationals The Capitals’ new goalie coach has an array of props he uses during practice, each with a specific purpose: move one win High shot screen Medicine ball: Focus enhancers: Low shot screen White pucks: They Mini pucks: Korn found board: Less a board Clutched at chest level, Mesh bags worn over board: Resembling an blend into the ice. Korn these through Steve from NL East than a dangling row of it helps a goaltender the mask, another easel, this prop was inspired by McKichan, an old thin, black plastic strips, focus on skating with visual impairment. removes the goalie’s Halloween- and student and a former which challenges the his legs without arm Korn initially tried ability to track the puck Valentine’s Day- goalie coach for the championship goalie to find the puck propulsion. Hold them snapping a shade visor until it zooms through themed pucks at a Toronto Maple Leafs. as it comes through. long enough, and it’s a onto the cage, like a the short space local skate shop in nasty workout. football player, but beneath the board. Nashville. NATIONALS 4, m settled for black and Korn picked this up white laundry bags. from Dave Prior, a BRAVES 2 former Capitals goaltending coach. BY ADAM KILGORE

— The players might not have noticed the small hooks protruding from the wall above their lockers Mon- day, ringing the visiting clubhouse at Turner Field. Spaced between every other nameplate, they had been in- stalled overnight, a subtle touch intend- ed not as decoration but preparation. The needed someplace to hang plastic sheets from in the event the take back the in their home , in case the Nationals spray champagne all over the place. On Tuesday afternoon, the Nationals will arrive at the park for Game 150 with the opportunity they have toiled for since February. The Nationals’ 4-2 victo- ry over the Braves pushed their lead to 11/2 games and reduced their magic number to just two. Stephen Strasburg NATIONALS CONTINUED ON D5

MAGIC NUMBER The combination of Washington wins and Atlanta losses that will clinch 2 the NL East title for the Nationals. Nationals at Braves Tonight, 7 (MASN)

Issues of race: An unsettling NBA offseason

Clippers, Hawks situations force league to re-evaluate its level of diversity

JOHN MCDONNELL/THE WASHINGTON POST BY MICHAEL LEE

The defining story of the NBA offsea- son could have been LeBron James’s tri- umphant return to his home state to heal the hurt of his previous defection. But while that homecoming dominated the early days of the summer, the predomi- Pulling out all the stops nant theme has now shifted from a re- union to a rift. With Donald Sterling removed from BY ALEX PREWITT Depending on the source, Korn is either a the NBA and forced to sell the Los Angeles Mitch Korn, the new goalie guru goaltending guru, a netminder whisperer or, as Clippers, Atlanta Hawks majority owner newburgh, n.y. — Five goalie camps down and for the Capitals, is the man longtime colleague Barry Trotz calls him, “Yoda” Bruce Levenson voluntarily selling his two more ahead on another beloved summer cir- and “The Voice of Reason.” He is also a pull-no- franchise and General Manager Danny cuit, Mitch Korn hopped from his equipment van who’s teaching the men in the net punches jokester, an opportunistic self-deprecator, Ferry taking an indefinite leave of ab- outside the Ice Time Sports Complex with a throaty a frequent storyteller, a devout follower of Murphy’s sence, this offseason is forcing the league cold and an eager grin. The previous session in go-karts, stuffed with the teaching tools for which Law — “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong” to confront the delicate issue of race. The Connecticut had ended that afternoon, a Monday in Korn has become known: buckets of pucks, bungee — and a 5-foot-4, 57-year-old Jewish man from the situations with the Clippers and Hawks late July, so the operation quickly rumbled toward cords, medicine balls, a thin mirror about six feet Bronx who made it in a sport few played back home, differ in scale and context but have this one-rink city, chosen because Korn’s sister lives wide and traffic cones that light up. Thirty-five without playing much of it himself. brought to light the complicated dance nearby and that means free laundry. years of college hockey, the American Hockey But here in Newburgh, Korn would soon play the for a league in which more than three- “Let’s start moving,” Korn told his staff. He League and the NHL had led Korn to these tools, role of overseer. The following morning, 48 camp- quarters of the players are black while coughed once, the tax for so many weeks spent on which form the reputation for education and inno- ers would arrive, aged 8 to 18, dubbed by Trotz as coaching, management and especially the road. “Let’s go.” vation that accompanies the new Capitals goalie “Children of the Korn.” Adding the counselors, ownership is overwhelmingly white. Out from the van spilled hockey bags the size of coach to Washington. KORN CONTINUED ON D7 While complicated, it’s a dance the NBA has performed gracefully for some time. NBA CONTINUED ON D3