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Baltimore, MD - Nate McLouth will have a new address next season, though it wont be far from his old one. The former Baltimore Orioles outfielder has agreed to a two-year contract with the Washington Nationals, the Baltimore Sun reported on Friday. According to the paper, the deal is worth $10.75 million and contains an option for the 2016 season. McLouth joins the Nationals off a pair of solid seasons with the Orioles. He batted .268 with seven home runs and 12 stolen bases in just 55 games in 2012, then swiped a career-best 30 bags while batting .258 with 12 homers and 36 RBI as Baltimores primary left fielder last year. The 32-year-old is expected to serve as a fourth outfielder with Washington, which looks to be set at those positions with Bryce Harper, Denard Span and Jayson Werth all returning. McLouth is a nine-year veteran who owns a .250 lifetime average with 100 homers, 326 RBI and 129 steals over 515 career games with Pittsburgh, Atlanta and the Orioles. 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The Oilers will try to get back in the win column on Monday when they continue a four-game road trip with a battle against the Buffalo Sabres. Edmonton won its third straight game last Wednesday against visiting San Jose, beating the Sharks 3-0 as Scrivens stopped 59 shots to set an NHL record for saves in a regular-season shutout. Bojan Bogdanovic Nets Jersey . Entering the day in second place behind overnight leader Vincenzo Nibali, the 41-year-old Horner pulled away from the Giro dItalia champion over the final meters of the uphill ascent to turn a three-second deficit into a three-second lead with just two days to go. HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- College football is on the verge of finally having a playoff, its own version of the final four. For the first time, all the power brokers who run the highest level of the sport are comfortable with the idea of deciding a championship the way its done from pee-wees to pros. And the way fans have been hoping they would for years. "Yes, weve agreed to use the P word," Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott said Thursday. They want to limit it to four teams. Thats for sure. Now they have to figure out how to pick the teams, where and when to play the games and how the bowls do or do not fit in. The new post-season format would go into effect for the 2014 season. As for the 14-year-old Bowl Championship Series, its on life support. Any chance that it survives past the next two seasons? "I hope not," said Southeastern Conference Commissioner Mike Slive, who pitched a four-team playoff four years ago but was shot down at this same beachside hotel. "This is a seismic change for college football," BCS Executive Director Bill Hancock said after the 11 conference commissioners and Notre Dames athletic director wrapped up three days of meetings in south Florida. That Hancock actually used the word playoff when describing what was being considered alone signalled a shift in thinking for the BCS. In a memo leading up to these meetings, the term "four-team event" was used to describe creating two national semifinals and a championship game. Hancock said the commissioners will present a "small number" of options for a four-team playoff to their leagues over the next month or so at conference meetings. He estimated that between two and seven configurations are being considered. Itll be up to each conference to determine which plan it likes best. The commissioners will get back together in June and try to come up with a final version, and eventually the university presidents will have to sign off on it. Hancock has said theyd like a new format ready for approval by July 4. And he warned that if no agreement is reached, the fallback could be sticking with an overhauled version of the old system, which aims for a No. 1 vs. No. 2 championship game. But thats a longshot. "Its great to get to a point where there seems to be general consensus that a four-team, three-game playoff is the best route to go," Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner John Swofford said. "The next challenge obviously is figuring out a format that brings consensus where we can truly make that work. The more this narrows, the more challenging it gets." The first step is figuring out the where and when. The when should be easy. The commissioners all agree the college football season needs to wrap up as close to Jan. 1 as possible. That would mean semifinals soon after Christmas and the title game within a few days of the calendar flipping. "One of the goaals is to make the post-season a celebration of college football," Slive said.dddddddddddd"And to focus in on a reasonable time frame that is consistent with a reasonable bowl season. And then be able to have a championship game and semifinals at a time and a place that would allow us to really celebrate college football at a time when people are thinking about college football, which is in and around the end of December and early January." Where is the best place to celebrate college football? That figures to be a heated debate. Slive has made it clear hes not a fan of playing semifinals on campus, a plan the Big Ten has presented and the Pac-12 supports. "Im a big proponent of it," Scott said. "That was the choice we made in our conference with our championship game. Collegiate atmosphere. Guaranteed sellout. Weve said all along preserving the regular season is important. What better way to emphasize the importance of the regular season then having a chance to earn a home game? Its a proven NFL model." Slive prefers playing the games at neutral sites, the way the NCAA basketball tournament does. That leads to the question: How do the bowls fit in? The national championship game has shifted between the Sugar, Orange, Fiesta and Rose bowl sites during the 14 years the BCS has been in existence. First, the bowl itself was the championship game. Then the BCS moved to a five-game model in which the championship was played after the bowls but at one of those four stadiums. The commissioners are considering allowing the bowls to be involved, but not necessarily calling the three playoff games "bowls." The Fiesta Bowl would be fine not hosting a bowl in certain years, if it can host a playoff game. On the other hand, the Rose Bowl would prefer to just be the Rose Bowl, sticking with its traditional matchup of Big Ten champion vs. Pac-12 champion on New Years Day. But those league champions will often be heading to the playoffs in a new format. "They definitely want to be part of the system," Scott said of the Rose Bowl. The commissioners wont even get into how they pick the teams until after they have presented a format to the presidential oversight committee. "The whole topic of selection and who would get in is something that weve really parked for now," Scott said. "We realize thats going to require a whole lot more debate and study." Among those debates: Slive prefers the four top-ranked teams regardless of conferences in the playoffs. Scott likes the idea of taking the top four conference champions as a way of moving away from the subjectivity of polls that dominant the current BCS standings. Much to be decided, but at least everybody is talking the same language: playoffs. "Ive always tried not to use the dreaded P-word," Slive said. "But now were all using it. So what the heck?" wholesale jerseys Cheap Jerseys ' ' '