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OAKLAND, Calif. -- The Oakland Athletics have landed another top Cuban prospect, agreeing to terms with versatile outfielder Lazaro Armenteros on Saturday.He receives a $3 million signing bonus from Oakland, which originally signed Yoenis Cespedes before the 2012 season.The As also agreed to terms with Dominican players third baseman George Bell, shortstops Marcos Brito and Yerdel Vargas, and center fielder Kevin Richards. Each of the new acquisitions will report to the clubs Dominican training facility and later to Arizona for instructional league this fall.As assistant general manager and scouting chief Dan Feinstein took the lead on acquiring Armenteros, nicknamed Lazarito. The As have been watching him seriously for two years.Its exciting. The scouts and Dan really did a great job with this, manager Bob Melvin said. Quite the find getting Lazarito. ... I did see a picture where he looks pretty cut up physically.The 17-year-old Armenteros, a right-handed hitter with speed and a body Feinstein likened to that of a young Frank Thomas, batted .462 for Cuba in the 15-and-under World Cup in Mexico two years ago. He hit .416 with a league-leading six home runs in Cubas 15-and-under league.To say we are excited to add this level of talent to our minor league system would be an understatement, Feinstein said. Our International scouts work tirelessly throughout the year, and its great to see those efforts rewarded. DOnta Foreman Jersey . Calgary scored on the first shift, and Michael Cammalleri scored twice as the Flames cruised to a 5-2 win over the Washington Capitals on Saturday. Andre Johnson Youth Jersey . -- If this was Aaron Gordons final home game at Arizona, and it almost certainly was, then he went out in style. http://www.officialhoustontexanspro.com/Donta-foreman-texans-jersey/ . 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Its really nice for our sport - born from rugby - to go back to its spiritual home, Kirkwood told Press Association Sport. It feels like were closing a circle.Sundays game will be the first non-rugby sporting event ever staged at Twickenham, an opportunity and a challenge for the stadiums managers.World famous amongst rugby fans, the Cabbage Patch will get a brand new audience when millions of NFL fans tune in to watch. This is an opportunity to put the stadium on a bigger map, Stephen Brown, the RFUs chief officer business operations, told Press Association Sport.Were very careful about the events we hold here. Theres a special nature to the sport we play. This is a first to hold another sport here but there is a good opportunity to have a sport which is similar to our own but is also something a bit different.We want to have big, high-quality events here and this is absolutely that, with a global impact.The game is also being seen as an opportunity to sell that new audience on rugby.We have an investment in US rugby and were helping them grow as a sport in the US market, Brown said.These are two sports with lots of big athletes kicking and carrying a ball so theyre not dissimilar and there are a lot of people who could be playing our sport within that market.This is an opportunity to engage with the US market and that ties in with our strategy.Getting this 107-year-old stadium ready for its NFL debut has been a significant task. From converting a bar area into a locker room big enough for a 53-man team to creating new disabled fan areas higher in the stands - the usual pitch-side ones would have zero visibility - rugbys Headquarters has undergone a minor facelift.Sundaay is the first of at least three NFL games that will be played at Twickenham in the next three years - a number which could rise to five - and the investment is seen as a long-term deal.dddddddddddd.For fans who have been enjoying NFL games in London for a decade now, Sundays shift in venue offers something fresh.Twickenham is a very different venue to Wembley - a more compact stadium with less space around it - but the NFL is still keen to put on the full game-day experience, even if it will be different to what fans have come to know.It adds a few more wrinkles, but its really exciting, Kirkwood said of the challenges of moving somewhere new after a decade of honing the Wembley routine.Its kind of like starting again. At Wembley weve got a tradition and experience, but now we have a new challenge and we cant just do the same thing.Moving some games to Twickenham is part of the NFLs ongoing process of exploring all options in London, allowing it to increase the number of games played here in the short term and consider all the possibilities for a potential franchise in the long term. With Tottenhams new stadium due to enter the picture in 2018 as well, those options are increasing.We have had a great relationship with Wembley and continue to do so, Kirkwood said. Were really looking at this through the lens of having a stated ambition to play multiple games here every year. We need to have options so we can play whenever the schedule allows.With Wembley itself preparing for next weekends match-up between the Washington Redskins and Cincinnati Bengals, NFL UK has found itself helping two different London stadiums prepare to host games at the same time.Its crazy, Kirkwood said. When we started I could never have imagined playing multiple games or two games on back-to-back weekends. I certainly wouldnt have thought wed be playing at the two most iconic stadia in the UK. ' ' '