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Free-agent center fielder Ian Desmond rejected a one-year, $17.2 million qualifying offer from the Texas Rangers on Monday and instead will seeks a new contract on the open market.A year ago, Desmond turned down a qualifying offer from the Washington Nationals before settling for a one-year deal with Texas worth $8 million.The Rangers converted the former shortstop into an outfielder this past season, and he earned his second career All-Star selection. He finished with stats of? .285/.335/.446, 22 home runs, 86 RBIs and 21 stolen bases as the Rangers repeated as AL West Division winners.Texas will receive a compensatory draft pick if Desmond signs elsewhere.Joel Sherman of the New York Post first reported Desmonds decision. Custom Denver Nuggets Jerseys Cheap .J. Ellis hit two-run homers and the NL West champion Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the San Diego Padres 4-0 Saturday night. Custom Orlando Magic Jerseys Cheap . Michell Burger, a woman who lives on an estate next to Pistorius gated community, said she and her husband were awoken by the screams in the pre-dawn hours of Feb. 14 last year, when Pistorius killed Reeva Steenkamp by shooting four times through a door in his bathroom. http://www.basketballcustomjerseys.com/custom-cleveland-cavaliers-jerseys-cheap-318q . Scott Kazmir allowed four hits in seven shutout innings, Michael Brantley hit a two-run homer in a three-run first inning and the Indians maintained their hold on an AL wild-card spot with a 4-1 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night. Custom Memphis Grizzlies Jerseys Cheap . Jane Virtanen scored two, and Alex Roach and Elliott Peterson rounded out the offence for the Hitmen (40-15-6). Brady Brassart chipped in with three assists. Colton McCarthy scored twice, Brayden Point had a goal and two assists, and Jack Rodewald also scored for the Warriors (15-35-9), who were 2 for 5 on the power play. Custom Oklahoma City Thunder Jerseys Cheap . -- Anaheim Ducks captain and leading scorer Ryan Getzlaf has been scratched from Sunday nights game against the Vancouver Canucks because of an upper-body injury. Germany will host this seasons bobsled and skeleton world championships, which were pulled out of Russia after numerous competitors considered a boycott in response to that nations widespread doping program.Koenigssee was the track selected by the International Bobsled and Skeleton Federation for the championships, which will be held Feb. 13-26 -- even though some nations felt they could be moved a week earlier. Koenigssee will also host a weekend of World Cup racing in January.Sochi lost the hosting rights last week in the fallout of the Russian doping scandal. The track at Krasnaya Polyana was used for the 2014 Sochi Olympics, which World Anti-Doping Agency investigator Richard McLaren concluded was corrupted by a state-backed doping program.That led to a number of athletes and teams talking boycott.For me personally, Im just happy that it was moved and we will still get to have a world championships with full participation from all nations, said U.S. skeleton slider Matt Antoine, who was going to boycott if the event was in Russia as scheduled. I still want to compete in the world championships. I just wasnt going to do it in Russia.Koenigssee has a history of stepping in as a replacement site. The 2011 world championships were originally awarded to Cortina dAmpezzo,, Italy, then moved to Koenigssee two years before the event because of track concerns.ddddddddddddhis time, theyre moving with worlds less than two months away -- an unprecedented scramble following an unprecedented scandal.The Russians have said they will not boycott worlds, even going as far as to say that they understood why the IBSF made the decision.Many athletes cited the integrity of the doping process as their primary concern about competing at the worlds in Russia, especially after the second McLaren report was released showing the depth of the doping program there.McLarens report showed that some Russian gold medalists from the Sochi Games were tainted by doping. Russia won gold medals in two-man bobsled, four-man bobsled and mens skeleton at the Olympics, though none of the athletes who got those victories has been implicated by any known positive or tampered-with tests.We will come and prove that we are able to fight at any championship, Russian Bobsled Federation president Alexander Zubkov, a winner of two gold medals at the Sochi Games, told reporters from Russia last week.Park City, Utah, was also under consideration to host. ' ' '