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HOUSTON -- Right-hander Scott Feldman signed a three-year deal Friday to become the veteran presence in the Houston Astros rotation. Feldman, who will turn 31 just before spring training begins, was 12-12 with a 3.86 ERA in 30 combined starts for the Chicago Cubs and Baltimore last season. The deal puts Feldman on a staff that includes four returning pitchers who made at least 10 starts last year and are 25 years or younger -- even after 23-year-old Jordan Lyles was traded by the Astros to Colorado earlier this week. "Everybody starts in this game young, you can really learn a lot just by watching anybody. ... I can learn from them and they can also learn from me," Feldman said. "Its just going to be great to have a group of guys that works wells and we can all get on the same page, help each other out and have a successful season." Houston is coming off a 111-loss season. The 6-foot-7 Feldman pitched in the AL West for Texas from 2005-12 before a one-year deal with the Cubs before last season. He was traded in July to the Orioles. He won 17 games for the Rangers in 2009 when he pitched a career-high 189 2-3 innings while making a career-high 31 starts. That was the only time he pitched more than his 181 2-3 combined innings last season. "Going into my free agency last year, I really just was looking for a place to go where I could just try to prove to everyone that I was capable of starting 30 games," Feldman said. "It was a big year for me. ... Just honestly, I felt like all I really needed was an opportunity, and Im glad I was able to make the most of it." Feldman, who was born in Hawaii, loved living in Texas before and his wife is from the Houston area. He was originally drafted by the Astros but didnt reach a deal then before going to college. The Rangers took him in the 30th round of the 2003 amateur draft. Feldman has made 234 career major league appearances, including 131 starts. He has a 51-56 record with a 4.62 ERA, and made nine relief appearance in the 2011 post-season when Texas went to the World Series. "We wanted an experienced starter to anchor our pitching staff," Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow said. "Scott is a great fit with our club. He throws strikes and gets ground balls, and will be a great example for the rest of our young rotation." Adidas Zx 750 Pas Cher . -- Isaiah Pead took a stutter step forward, then raced to the left sideline and travelled 60 yards up the field before finally getting tripped up by a leg tackle. Nike Air Max Thea Pas Cher Homme . He crashed on Sunday and underwent surgery to pin four fractures of his right collarbone. The Swiss rider expects to resume training next week and skip the remaining spring classics one-day races. http://www.frchaussuressoldes.com/new-balance-574/new-balanc e-574-homme.html . -- The Golden State Warriors say an MRI on point guard Stephen Currys left ankle shows a bone bruise and his status is officially day to day. Nike Roshe Run Femme Pas Cher . Pau Gasol had 23 points and 17 rebounds, and injury-riddled Los Angeles used its sixth different starting point guard of the season in a 110-99 victory over the Utah Jazz on Friday night. Nike Air Max 90 Femme . James is being kept out of Miamis final road game -- against the Cavaliers -- as the Heat get ready for the NBA playoffs by resting almost all of their top players.VANCOUVER -- Playing for hockeys biggest prize in his home town doesnt faze Milan Lucic. The hard-nosed winger from East Vancouver is on an emotional high as his Boston Bruins meet the Vancouver Canucks in the opening game of the Stanley Cup final Wednesday. But Lucics euphoria could be trouble for the team he grew up rooting for as Boston seeks to win the Stanley Cup for the first time in five tries since capturing it in 1972. "Ive always been able to thrive off playing excited and playing with a lot of emotion," Lucic, who led the Bruins with 30 goals and 62 points in the regular season, said Tuesday. "Often when guys go and play at home in front of friends and family they tense up and tighten up. I just get excited about it." That excitement hasnt gone unnoticed by linemates Nathan Horton and David Krecji who lead the Bruins with 17 playoff points apiece. "Hes got that extra little buzz around him," Horton said of Lucics arrival on the West Coast for the best-of-seven series that continues in Vancouver Saturday before shifting to Boston. And Lucic has had some memorable performances in this city where the Bruins hope to end a 39-year Stanley Cup drought and the Canucks want to halt their dry spell at 40. In the only regular-season game Boston played against the Canucks, Lucic set up the tying goal and scored the winner in a 3-1 victory. The 2007 Memorial Cup final to determine the top junior team was played in Vancouver as well and his first shift in the title game has become the stuff of legend. The six-foot-four, 220-pound Lucic was a human wrecking ball, crunching three Medicine Hat Tigers with bone-rattling body checks, then finishing with a fight. It set the tone for a 3-1 victory. Lucic assisted on the winner and earned tournament MVP honours. He made the Bruins roster that fall as a 19-year-old. "When I came in, he was a big physical force, scored goals the hard way," said veteran Mark Recchi, the only player in the series seeking to hoist the Stanley Cup for a third time. "Hes a big guy who can skate. Hes just continued to grow and grow more confident in the ways he can be a scorer in this league." Like the Canucks, the Bruins needed an overtime win in Game 7 of a first-round series to stay in the Cup hunt. Again, it was a Lucic pass that allowed Horton to score his second overtime goal of that series against the Montreal Canadiens in a 4-3 win. In the second round, the Bruins exorcised a demon from their last post-season foray when they swept Philadelphia. Last year Boston led the Flyers 3-0 in games and blew a 3-0 lead in Game 7. They needed another seventh game in this years Eastern Conference final but prevailed 1-0 on Hortonns series winner against Tampa Bay to advance to the Stanley Cup final.dddddddddddd The Bruins, who last appeared in a Cup final in 1990, bring stingy defence with big, punishing defencemen like six-foot-nine, 255-pound Zdeno Chara. The Norris Trophy finalist is seeking to become the second European captain to win the Cup. Goalie Tim Thomas is a Vezina Trophy finalist like Canuck counterpart Roberto Luongo. Thomass unorthodox style helped keep the Bruins goals-against total to 185, third lowest in the NHL during the regular season. Boston cant match the firepower of the Canucks who boast the likes of the twins, Daniel and Henrik Sedin, or gritty forward Ryan Kesler, a Selke Trophy finalist, or get as many goals from their defence. But the Bruins have demonstrated they can play against teams with high-octane offences like Tampa Bay. "Disciplines a big thing," said Lucic, whose uncle Dan Kesa played briefly with the Canucks in 1993-94. "Our penalty kills been great so far throughout the playoffs but their power plays been very good so sometimes youve got to step up and be the bigger man and not let your emotions get the better of you." One area where the Bruins could be vulnerable is an anaemic power play where defenceman Tomas Kaberle was obtained from the Toronto Maple Leafs to inject puck movement. His passing ability hasnt seemed to help. The Bruins are only 5-for-61 in the playoffs, a pitiful 8.2 per cent compared to 28.3 per cent for Vancouver. "At the beginning of the playoffs, we felt like if we couldnt get our power play going, we were in big trouble," said coach Claude Julien. "But here we are in the finals, so weve managed to survive. We understand if your power play doesnt get going, youre certainly playing with fire." While four of his six playoff assists have come on game-winning goals, Lucic struggled early in the playoffs, not scoring for the first 11 games. Then he counted twice in the series-clinching game against the Flyers and scored in Bostons Game 6 loss to Tampa Bay. He knows what he has to do. "In the playoffs youve just got to keep going to those areas in front of the net. This era, the goalies, theyre not getting beaten by direct shots. "Obviously we know Roberto Luongos a great goaltender but weve got to do whatever we can to make things hard on him." NOTES: So whos Canadas team? Twelve of the 13 Bruins forwards and four of the seven defencemen who have seen playoff action are Canadians. Thats a much higher ratio than the Canucks where eight of 15 forwards and four of nine defencemen are Canadian-born. As for the goalies, Thomas is an American while Luongo is from Montreal. cheap nfl jerseys wholesale jerseys ' ' '
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