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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP)—Right-hander ED hardy clothes Jake Westbrook(notes) decided to stay with the St. Louis Cardinals, agreeing Tuesday to a $16.5 million, two-year contract. His deal, the first for a starting free-agent pitcher this offseason, includes an $8.5 million mutual option for 2013. The 33-year-old was acquired from Cleveland on July 31 and was 4-4 with a 3.48 ERA in 12 starts for the Cardinals. Overall, he was 10-11 with a 4.22 ERA for the Cardinals and Indians. A 2004 AL All-Star, Westbrook has a 73-75 career record with a 4.29 ERA in 10 major league seasons. He pitched three games for the New York Yankees as a rookie in 2000, then spent his entire career with Cleveland before this year’s trade. “Having Jake signed is a great start to our offseason,” general manager John Mozeliak said. “We witnessed firsthand last season what a terrific competitor he is and how well he fits in with our pitching staff.” Rather than test the free-agent market, left-hander Ted Lilly(notes) agreed to a $33 million, three-year deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers on Oct. 19. Westbrook gives the Cardinals depth in a rotation headed by 21-game winner Adam Wainwright(notes) and 2005 NL Cy Young winner Chris Carpenter(notes) and lefty Jaime Garcia(notes), who won 13 games and was third in the NL rookie of the year balloting. Kyle Lohse(notes) has been dogged by injuries most of the last two seasons but was a 15-game winner in 2008. Westbrook was 3-1 with a 2.92 ERA the final month of last season. He won 14 or more games three consecutive seasons from 2004-06, topping 200 innings each time, but missed all but five starts in 2008 and ’09 after undergoing reconstructive elbow surgery. The Cardinals sent outfielder Ryan Ludwick(notes) to sheepkin boots the Padres as part of a three-team deal that brought Westbrook to St. Louis.

Palermo defeated mid-table discount ugg boot rivals Genoa 1-0 in a hard-fought clash in the Stadio Renzo Barbera this evening. A solitary strike from Mauricio Pinilla just before half-time was enough to give his side victory and restore the Sicilian's flagging Champions League hopes. The away side fired an early warning shot across Palermo bows when Rafinha drove forward and crashed a shot wide of the upright with barely 30 seconds on the clock. Genoa continued to force the play in the opening stages and ex-Palermo man Luca Toni, who was booed remorselessly throughout by the home fans, wrong-footed Salvatore Sirigu with a deflected strike, but the goalkeeper scrambled back across goal to make the stop. Palermo then took control from then on in and Pinilla could, and maybe should, have had as many as five goals before finally opening the scoring. First, he met Mattia Cassani’s low cross with a first time effort which Eduardo did superbly well to touch onto the post. He then passed up a glorious one-on-one chance in the 19th minute when he raced onto Javier Pastore’s slide rule pass and attempted to drag the ball around Eduardo. The Genoa stopper read the move and threw out a hand to deny Palermo’s diminutive Chilean. Amazingly, it was Pinilla who glanced Pastore’s inviting cross down into the ground and against the post five minutes later. Toni had a couple of efforts well saved by Sirigu as the Rossoblu attempted to force their way back into the game. But it wasn’t long before we were back with Pinilla and another missed opportunity. This time the 26-year-old darted to the front post to connect with Josip ilicic’s cut back, but put the ball wide with the goal at his mercy. In the 41st minute, he contrived to nike air max shoes head a Cassani cross straight into Eduardo’s hands, and then demonstrated his deep frustration by karate kicking the upright. However, that tension was completely released when he broke the deadlock less than 60 seconds later. Pinilla darted on to Pastore’s delightful flick and made no mistake at the sixth time of asking, curling the ball beyond Eduardo’s to make it 1-0.

SAO PAULO (AP)—A Brazilian Air jordan shoes prosecutor is warning Felipe Massa that he can be arrested and sentenced to up to six years in prison if he takes team orders to help Ferrari teammate Fernando Alonso win the Formula One title. Massa could be charged with fraud if he allows Alonso to pass him or if he does anything else that would somehow alter the result of Sunday’s race in Interlagos, according to prosecutor Paulo Castilho, known for taking up sports causes in Brazil. “Massa or any other driver who does anything to fraud the result of the race can be arrested and formally charged,” he told The Associated Press on Thursday. “It doesn’t mean that it will happen, it will be up to the local authority in charge of the event to decide whether the law has been broken.” The law mentioned by Castilho says that it’s a crime to “fraud by any means, or contribute to fraud, in any way, the result of a sporting event.” Massa arrived at the Brazilian Grand Prix saying he would give way to his teammate if needed on Sunday, just like he did while leading the German GP in July so Alonso could earn more points in the race for the title. “I would do it again, I’m a professional driver,” Massa said earlier this week. The move in Germany prompted F1 officials to fine Ferrari $100,000 for using team orders, but none of the drivers’ were punished. Massa was heavily criticized by some fans and local media for relinquishing that victory. He dismissed any problems with fans, however, if he is required to help Alonso again this weekend. “Even after the race in Germany, when I arrived in Brazil, the people were very nice with me, very fantastic, pushing me forward,” he said. Massa’s situation is akin to 2007, when he led the season-ending Brazilian GP but pitted early to allow teammate Kimi Raikkonen into the lead, giving the Finn the race victory that clinched the world discount ugg boot title by a single point. Alonso can win the title if he wins Sunday’s race and Red Bull’s Mark Webber finishes fifth or worse. He can also clinch the title by finishing second if Webber is eighth or worse, McLaren’s Lewis Hamilton fourth or worse and Red Bull’s Sebastian Vettel third or worse. “If there is enough evidence showing that the team orders are affecting the result unfairly, the local authority can make the arrests of those involved,” Castilho said. Alonso has 231 points with two races to go, 11 points more than Webber, 21 more than Hamilton and 25 ahead of Vettel. Massa is not in contention for the title. Alonso said he is hoping that Massa runs well enough to win the final two races of the season, keeping his rivals from getting the victories. “It’s best to have Felipe winning the races because then he is taking 25 points away from everybody else,” the Spaniard said. Massa and Ferrari officials could not be reached to comment on the prosecutor’s warning. The prosecutor’s warning against team orders was UGG Classic Argyle Knit Boots 5879 first reported by the Folha de S. Paulo newspaper, Brazil’s largest.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. (AP)—Kris ugg boots Joseph and freshman C.J. Fair both scored 14 points, and No. 10 Syracuse beat Division II Kutztown 96-60 in an exhibition game Tuesday night. The Orange’s freshmen foursome of 7-foot center Fab Melo, Fair, Dion Waiters and 6-10 center Baye Moussa Keita played plenty and combined for 37 points. Kutztown finished 23-8 last season and won a school-record 28 games the previous year, but the smaller Golden Bears struggled to find many open looks and never found a rhythm. Steve Coffey had 15 points and Julius Gray 12 to lead Kutztown. Syracuse never trailed and used its superior athleticism to UGG Classic Tall Bomber Jacket-5804 take control in the first half as Scoop Jardine and Rick Jackson both scored eight points and Joseph added seven, including a 3-pointer just before the first-half buzzer that gave the Orange a 47-32 lead.

In the middle of air maxes last week, a woman who claimed her name was Hanan al-Samawi, a 22-year-old engineering student, walked into the U.P.S. office in the upscale Hadda neighborhood of Sana, Yemen’s sprawling capital city. She displayed a photocopied identification card, and dropped off a bomb hidden inside a printer cartridge with a Chicago address listed as the package’s destination. A few blocks away, another package concealing a homemade bomb was dropped off at a FedEx office, also seemingly headed to Chicago. Within days, the two packages had advanced through four countries in at least four different airplanes — two of them carrying passengers — before they were identified in Britain and Dubai after an 11th-hour tip from Saudi Arabia’s intelligence service set off an international terrorism alert and a frantic hunt. The foiling of the package plot was a significant success in an era of well-publicized intelligence breakdowns and miscommunications. It was also a sobering reminder to officials around the world that quick response to timely intelligence rules the day. Despite the billions of dollars governments have spent on elaborate airport technology to guard against terrorism threats, the packages would probably have been loaded onto planes bound for the United States, but for the Saudi tip. But the plot also points up holes in the system, particularly the security of cargo flights, that have already caused criticism abroad and are likely to rekindle new debates in the United States. In Qatar, officials acknowledged Sunday that one of the packages had been carried on two Qatar Airways passenger planes, apparently having eluded the airline’s cargo screening system. In Britain, officials were embarrassed about how long it took the authorities to identify one of the packages as a carefully concealed bomb. American and Yemeni officials still UGG Amelie Sandals have little hard evidence about who was involved in the thwarted attack. On Sunday officials in Yemen discovered that Ms. Samawi’s identity had apparently been stolen, and that she was not the same woman who dropped off the packages. Ms. Samawi was released on bail on Sunday, and the authorities in Yemen have thus far arrested no other suspects. It was one more piece of a carefully designed and cleverly disguised plot that investigators believe was conceived by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen, the group that American officials say might pose the most immediate threat to American soil. In television appearances on Sunday, John O. Brennan, President Obama’s top counterterrorism adviser, said that American and British authorities were leaning toward the conclusion that the packages were meant to detonate in midair, en route to their destinations in Chicago. If that turns out to be the case, it would be a rare attack aimed at the air cargo system — one of the foundations of the global economy — rather than the passenger system, which has received the most attention from governments working to avoid a repeat of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. For the most part, governments around the world had bet that it was less likely that the cargo system would be the target of attacks, given that its flights carry few passengers. “It is time for the shipping industry and the business community to accept the reality that more needs to be done to secure cargo planes so that they cannot be turned into a delivery systems for bombs targeting our country,” Representative Ed Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts, said in a statement. Congress in 2007, in legislation proposed by Mr. Markey, mandated that all air cargo be inspected before it is loaded onto passenger planes, setting an August 2010 deadline for UGG Handbags the requirement. But as of the deadline, only about 65 percent of the cargo headed to the United States on passenger planes from abroad is inspected — and a far smaller proportion coming to the United States on all-cargo flights is physically checked, as these planes are not subject to the mandate. Even when the cargo is checked, air carriers in certain countries use equipment like X-ray detection devices or a visual check by an airport worker that often cannot identify packages with bombs, because the small amount of explosive material can be carefully hidden inside a routine electronic device, like a computer printer. Interviews in Washington, London and the Middle East reveal how the two bombs made their way through several countries before the tip from Saudi intelligence officials caused them to be pulled from airplanes.

PITTSBURGH (AP) —Claude air maxes Giroux(notes) scored short-handed and on a power play and rookie Sergei Bobrovsky(notes) made 26 saves to win in Pittsburgh for the second time in three weeks, leading the Flyers to a 3-2 victory over the Penguins on Friday night. Kris Letang(notes) gave the Penguins an early 1-0 lead, but they repeatedly squandered chances to take control by going 0 for 6 on the power play. They are 0 for 20 in four games, three of them losses. With the teams tied at 1, Daniel Carcillo redirected Matt Carle’s(notes) soft wrist shot between Marc-Andre Fleury’s(notes) pads 13:34 into the second period and the Flyers never trailed again. Giroux sealed it midway through the third with his sixth goal, punching the puck past Fleury after a scramble in front of the Pittsburgh net in which three Flyers players had scoring chances. The power play was created by a penalty for too many men on the ice. Tyler Kennedy(notes) scored off a one-timer of Sidney Crosby’s(notes) cross-ice pass with 45 seconds remaining, but it was too late for the Penguins as they dropped their third in a row. Oilers 7, Blackhawks 4= CHICAGO (AP) - Sam Gagner(notes), Ales Hemsky(notes) and Jordan Eberle(notes) scored in a 1:09 span late in the first period, and Gagner added an empty-netter in the third to help Edmonton snap a six-game losing streak. Rookie Taylor Hall(notes) had a goal and an assist, and Andrew Cogliano(notes) and Ryan Jones(notes) also scored for Edmonton, which was 0-4-2 after winning its first two games of the season. The Oilers improved to 3-23-3 in their last 29 road games dating to mid-December of last season. Patrick Sharp(notes) scored a power-play goal and added two assists for the Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks in their third loss in four games. Jonathan Toews(notes), Patrick Kane(notes) and UGG Mayfaire boots Jake Dowell(notes) also scored for mistake-plagued Chicago, and Duncan Keith(notes) had three assists. Nikolai Khabibulin(notes) made 37 saves to help the Oilers beat the Blackhawks in regulation for the first time since February 2008, and for the first time in regulation at the United Center since January 2004. Canadiens 3, Islanders 1= UNIONDALE, N.Y. (AP) - Benoit Pouliot(notes) snapped a third-period tie, and Alex Auld(notes) made 30 saves in his season debut to earn his first victory in nine months and help Montreal win its fourth straight. Pouliot, the trail man on a 3-on-2 rush, took a back pass from Jeff Halpern(notes) from the right circle dot and snapped a shot past goalie Dwayne Roloson(notes) 7:19 into the third. Travis Moen(notes) scored with 1:49 left to make it 3-1 Montreal swept the home-and-home series from the Islanders, and handed New York its first regulation loss at Nassau Coliseum (2-1-1) and third consecutive loss overall. The Canadiens, who have won six of seven, are 11-0-3 against the Islanders since the start of the 2007-08 season. Tomas Plekanec(notes) scored for the third straight game for the Canadiens (7-2-1). New York’s Matt Martin(notes) scored his first NHL goal. Thrashers 4, Sabres 3, OT= ATLANTA (AP) - Dustin Byfuglien(notes) UGG Nightfall Boots split two defenders and beat Ryan Miller(notes) with a wrist shot at 4:31 of overtime to lift Atlanta past Buffalo. Buffalo tied it with 8 seconds left in regulation when Derek Roy(notes) tipped Jordan Leopold’s(notes) shot past Chris Mason(notes) with Miller off for an extra attacker. Alexander Burmistrov scored his first NHL goal, and Niclas Bergfors(notes) and Nik Antropov(notes) also connected for Atlanta. Tim Connolly(notes) and Jordan Leopold added goals for Buffalo. Hurricanes 4, Rangers 3= NEW YORK (AP) - Erik Cole(notes) scored the go-ahead goal on a power play with 3:59 left, and Jeff Skinner(notes) had two goals and set up the winner for Carolina. Jeff Skinner, the youngest player in the NHL at 18 years, 5 months, drew the hooking penalty that set up the key power play, then made the pass to set up a wide-open Cole for the winner. Tuomo Ruutu(notes) also scored for Carolina and Cam Ward(notes) made 40 saves Ryan Callahan(notes), Marc Staal(notes) and Brandon Dubinsky(notes) scored for New York. Devils 2, Ducks 1= ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) - Patrik Elias(notes) scored the tiebreaking goal early in the third period, Martin Brodeur(notes) made 27 saves and New Jersey snapped a three-game skid. Captain Jamie Langenbrunner(notes) also scored for the Devils, who had lost five of six while plummeting to the bottom of the NHL standings. After losing in the first two stops of their six-game trip, the UGG Lo Pro Button boots Devils halted the slide with a tight-checking defensive game in front of Brodeur, who picked up his 605th victory. Jason Blake(notes) scored a power-play goal and Jonas Hiller(notes) stopped 25 shots for Anaheim, which came back flat from a four-game trip. The Ducks haven’t won back-to-back games this season.