CLEARWATER, Fla. — With his free time here at D.C. United training camp, Donovan Pines has engaged in some light reading.
“I can’t remember what the book’s called,” the 20-year-old said, “but it has a basic understanding of all of the prokaryotes, which are single-cell organisms and things in that spectrum, and builds right up to community species and ecology.”
Wait, what?
A little later, Pines relays the title: “The Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics, 250 Milestones in the History of Biology."
Not exactly beach reading.
Pines is no longer a college student, having left Maryland last month after three seasons and an NCAA championship to sign a homegrown contract with United.