Taylor brings his moves to Washington

Jason Taylor is leaving the only NFL team he's known, going from the Miami Dolphins to the Washington Redskins in a trade yesterday. The Redskins gave the Dolphins a second-round pick in 2009 and a sixth-round choice in 2010 for Taylor. The six-time Pro Bowl defensive end - who was the 2006 NFL Defensive Player of the Year - fell out of favor in Miami after spending his offseason on the TV show "Dancing With the Stars" rather than working out with teammates. The deal came about nine hours after starting defensive end Phillip Daniels was carted away from the practice field at Redskins Park with a season-ending left knee injury on Day 1 of training camp. Taylor is expected to report to training camp today. The 33-year-old has played 11 NFL seasons and he's started every game each of the past eight years. He had 11 sacks during the 2007 season, giving him 117 over his career . . . Defensive end Chris Long, the second overall pick in the 2008 draft and the son of Hall of Famer Howie Long, agreed to a multiyear deal with the St. Louis Rams . . . The Philadelphia Eagles and wide receiver DeSean Jackson, a second-round draft pick, agreed on a four-year contract.

The San Francisco Giants traded second baseman Ray Durham to the Milwaukee Brewers for two minor leaguers. The 36-year-old second baseman, in his sixth season with San Francisco and the final year of a two-year contract, had to approve the deal. San Francisco received lefthander Steve Hammond and outfielder Darren Ford. Milwaukee, vying for its first postseason berth since 1982, already made one of the biggest trades of the season, acquiring CC Sabathia from Cleveland before the All-Star break. Durham is batting .293 with three homers and 32 RBIs . . . Cubs outfielder Alfonso Soriano, on the DL since June 12 because of a broken left hand, will begin a rehab assignment today with Chicago's rookie league team and is expected to come off the disabled list Thursday . . . The White Sox placed Jose Contreras on the 15-day disabled list with right elbow tendinitis.

Reading's James Cerretani didn't need much time to click with his new doubles partner. The 26-year-old lefthander and Romanian Victor Hanescu, playing together for just the second tournament, each won his first doubles title, beating Lukas Arnold Ker and Olivier Rochus, 6-3, 7-5, in the final of at the Austrian Open in Kitzbuhel. In the singles, Juan Martin del Potro won his second straight ATP Tour title by defeating Jurgen Melzer, 6-2, 6-1 . . . Gilles Simon of France won his first ATP title on American soil, beating Dmitry Tursunov, 6-4, 6-4, at the Indianapolis Championships . . . Qualifier Aleksandra Wozniak won her first WTA singles title and became the first Canadian woman to win a singles title in 20 years, beating Marion Bartoli, 7-5, 6-3, to win the Bank of the West Classic in Stanford, Calif. Wozniak, 20, needed to win eight matches - including three qualifiers - in nine days to become the first Canadian since Jill Hetherington at Wellington in February 1988 to win a women's singles title.

Greece, which stunned the United States in men's basketball two years ago, will join the Americans at the Olympics in a strong Group B, which includes all three medalists from the last world championships. Germany also was drawn into Group B after clinching the last available spot in Beijing by beating Puerto Rico, 96-82, in Athens behind 32 points from Dirk Nowitzki in the third-place game at the qualifying tournament. Greece locked up its spot Saturday by beating Puerto Rico in the semifinals. The Greeks knocked off the Americans in the semifinals of the 2006 world championships before losing to Spain in the finals. The US and Spain were previously drawn into Group B along with host China and Angola . . . Police arrested a passenger in a car driven by Shawne Williams of the Indiana Pacers for marijuana possession Friday, an incident that team president Larry Bird said jeopardizes the forward's future with the Pacers . . . In WNBA play, Asjha Jones had 23 points and 10 rebounds in helping the host Connecticut Sun snap a five-game losing streak with a 74-67 win over the Chicago Sky; Taj McWilliams-Franklin scored 22 points and Alana Beard tied a career-high with nine assists as the host Washington Mystics snapped the Seattle Storm's seven-game winning streak, 89-57; and Kara Lawson's tie-breaking jumper with 39 seconds left helped the Sacramento Monarchs become the first visiting team to win at Detroit this season, as they beat the Shock, 88-85.

A halftime brawl involving more than 100 fans in Columbus, Ohio, marred an exhibition match between West Ham United of the English Premier League and Major League Soccer's Columbus Crew. The fights, which overshadowed West Ham's 3-1 win, began when a handful of West Ham supporters entered the northeast corner of the stadium where the Crew's most boisterous supporters typically gather. Crew supporters began directing chants toward the rival fans, and fights quickly broke out between more than 100 Crew fans and at least 30 West Ham fans. Columbus police officers and Crew Stadium security staff eventually separated the groups. A dispatcher didn't know whether Columbus police had made any arrests inside the stadium . . . Joe Sheehan of Melrose won the 27th annual Peaks to Portland swim in Maine, completing the 2.4-mile course in Casco Bay in 42 minutes 11 seconds. It was the second victory for Sheehan, who came in first in the 2006 race from Peaks Island to Portland's East End Beach . . . Reigning Olympic beach volleyball champs Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor beat Jennifer Boss and April Ross, 21-14, 21-15, in the final of the AVP Tour's stop at Coney Island in Brooklyn . . . The gelding Stolis Winner raced to victory in the $625,000 Rainbow Futurity at Ruidoso Downs. With Rodrigo Vallejo aboard, Stolis Winner won the 400-yard second leg of the triple crown of quarterhorse racing in 19.470 seconds, beating PB And Crackers by a half-length . . . Suffolk Downs cancelled its live racing after the sixth race because of heavy rain.