VALENCIA, Spain -- Struggling Valencia has signed former Barcelona midfielder Seydou Keita and loaned out three forwards.
Babe Ruth Jersey Large . Valencia says Keita will play for the club until the end of the season — with an option to extend — if he passes his medical. Keita has been playing with Chinese club Dalian Aerbin. The Mali midfielder helped Barcelona win 14 trophies in four seasons. Valencia also loaned out Colombia striker Dorlan Pabon, Portugal striker Helder Postiga and Mexico forward Andres Guardado on Thursday. The Spanish club, which is 10th in the league, says Brazilian side Sao Paulo has agreed to take Pabon on loan until the end of next season. Postiga will move to Lazio and Guardado joins Bayer Leverkusen. Both deals are contingent on standard medical exams.
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Orlando Cepeda Jersey . Jeter doubled high off the left-field wall and scored on Jacoby Ellsburys first hit in pinstripes in the fifth. Hiroki Kuroda (1-1) pitched 6 1-3 sharp innings in the Yankees 112th opener in New York. In what manager Joe Girardi said would be a season-long lovefest for Jeter, the shortstop was cheered every step of the way by an adoring crowd of 48, 142 -- even when his double-play grounder back to Orioles starter Ubaldo Jimenez (0-2) scored Solarte in the third inning for the first run.INDIANAPOLIS - Andrew Luck took advantage of every opportunity Washington provided.He exploited the Redskins blown coverages. He watched Coby Fleener turn a missed tackle into a 73-yard score. He enjoyed watching linebacker DQwell Jackson break open the game with a 35-yard fumble return in the third quarter.And now, after throwing for 370 yards and a career high five touchdowns on Sunday in a 49-27 victory over Washington, Luck expects the Colts to keep it up.I think we have incredibly explosive players all over the field, Luck said. You see a running back take it for 60-some yards to the house. You see Fleener run by defensive backs. You see our wide outs making monstrous plays.The combination made Indianapolis (8-4) virtually impossible to defend.Fleener had four catches for 127 yards with two TD catches, becoming the first tight end since Rich Caster in 1972 to have TD catches of 30 or more yards and 70 or more yards in the same game.Rookie Donte Moncrief had three catches for 134 yards, scoring on plays of 48 and 79 yards.Running back Daniel Boom Herron scored on a career-long touchdown of 49 yards to give Indy a 14-3 lead.Luck continued to pile up the milestones, too. He broke Peyton Mannings franchise record for most 300-yard games in a season (10), became the fifth quarterback since 1970 to win 30 games in his first three seasons, joined Manning and Dan Marino as the only players in NFL history with 4,000 yards in two of their first three seasons, and joined Manning and John Unitas as the only Colts quarterbacks with 30 TD passes in a season.His first TD pass, the 30-yarder to Fleener, gave Indy a 7-3 lead. His second, a 3-yarder to T.Y. Hilton made it 21-3. The third and fourth, a 48-yarder to Moncrief and the 73-yarder to Fleener broke open the game, and the last one to Moncrief made it 49-24 early in the fourth.Washington didnt have an answer. Colt McCoy was 31 of 47 for a career high 392 yards annd three touchdowns — also a career-high and one more than Robert Griffin III threw this season before getting benched — the Redskins (3-9) couldnt keep up.
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