Chicago, IL (SportsNetwork. Tanner Lee Jersey .com) - Jason Hammel is returning to the Chicago Cubs. The right-hander agreed to a two-year contract on Friday. Financial terms were not disclosed, but the deal includes a club option for the 2017 season. Hammel signed with the Cubs last February and was 8-5 with a 2.98 ERA in 17 starts before being shipped to Oakland with Jeff Samardzija on July 5. He went just 2-6 with the Athletics, finishing the campaign 10-11 overall with a 3.47 ERA in 30 outings. The 32-year-old veteran will be reunited with new Cubs manager Joe Maddon. Hammel pitched for Maddon in Tampa Bay from 2006-08, helping the Rays to the World Series in his final year, although he did not pitch for Tampa Bay in the postseason. After his three-year stint with Tampa Bay, Hammel also pitched for Colorado (2009-11) and Baltimore (2012-13) prior to last season. He made one start for the Rockies in the 2009 postseason and two starts for the Orioles in the 2012 playoffs. In 245 major league appearances, including 187 starts, he owns a career record of 59-70 with a 4.60 ERA. Donte Moncrief Jersey . Jacob Jacques, Andrew Ryan and Jonathan Drouin also scored for Halifax (37-18-3), who outshot the Islanders 40-26. Kevin Darveau stopped 25 shots. Bradley Kennedy had the lone goal for Charlottetown (18-33-5), which has nine losses in its last 10 games. Cody Kessler Jersey . Terms of the contract were not disclosed by the club. Clemons spent his first five NFL seasons with the Miami Dolphins, who selected him in the fifth round of the 2009 draft out of Clemson. http://www.thejaguarsfansshop.com/Jaguars-Andrew-Norwell-Draft-Jersey/ . Born in Berkeley and raised in Oakland, where he later pitched for the As, Ross beat the Giants for the first time in six career appearances by throwing eight scoreless innings to lead the San Diego Padres to a 2-1 victory Friday night.CALGARY - What succeeds in Vegas returns to Vegas. The Continental Cup of Curling heads back to Sin City next year in hopes of replicating the buzz it created in 2014.The 2016 World Financial Group Continental Cup of Curling will again be held at the Orleans Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, which marks just the second time in the events 12-year history it will be staged outside of Canada.We go there as tourists and now were actually one of the shows, Olympic champion skip Jennifer Jones said Friday at a news conference.Last years event attracted a record 51,215 fans over four days at the 6,000-seat Orleans Arena. It drew a daily average of 300,000 television viewers, according to TSN.I think the simple reason was it was a home run, so why would we not go back? Canadian Curling Association chief executive officer Greg Stremlaw said.The television numbers were good, obviously record attendance crowds and 92 per cent of them were from Canada, It gave our fans something different. Obviously we cant do that with national championships. They have to be held within Canada.But a Continental Cup, weve hosted it so often in Canada, its nice to kind of have a little bit of variety. Las Vegas wanted us back pretty badly because its a great economic impact for them.A return to the U.S. means American curlers will be re-incorporated into the format.They joined with Canadians under the Team North America banner for the first 10 years of the Continental Cup and helped post a 6-4 record. The U.S. was not invited to participate at this weeks competition here.An all-Canadian team is up 15-6 on Team Europe at Canada Olympic Park after Fridays draws wrapped up.The four-day competition includes team, mixed doubles, singles and skins games. A total of 60 points are available, so the side that earns more than 30 points by Sunday is the champion.The host team earned 3.5 out of a possible six points in the afternoon singles round and followed up with three out of a possible three points in team play in the evening.Brad Jacobs, from Sault Ste. Marie, Ont., defeated David Murdoch of the United Kingdom 66-5 in Round 4 of team competition. Jermey Parnell Jersey. Winnipegs John Morris cruised to an 8-3 win over Niklas Edin of Sweden.And in the other team game, Ottawas Rachel Homan drew the button with last rock to nip Anna Sidorova of Russia 4-3.Clean sweep, that was good, said Homan.Canada led by 4.5 points after the morning team competition when Edmontons Val Sweeting and Scotlands Eve Muirhead tied 4-4 and split a point.Winnipegs Mike McEwen downed Norways Thomas Ulsrud 7-2. Jones gave up five points in the first end to Swedens Margaretha Sigfridsson en route to a 9-4 loss.This years average attendance at the 3,000-seat Markin MacPhail Centre was 1,533 after five draws.The World Curling Federation has dropped its involvement in the Continental Cup. As the events sole backer, the CCA chooses which countries are invited to next years event Jan. 14-17.Team North America will face a Team World in 2016, with the possibility that Asian curlers will be included.It will be more than Europe for sure, Stremlaw said. Final decisions havent been made in terms of who will constitute Team World, but it will be Team North America versus Team World.Fridays announcement was made at Canadas Sports Hall of Fame at COP. Stremlaw was flanked by two women wearing sequined bikinis.Showgirls and dancers from the male revue Thunder From Down Under accompanied the curlers into Orleans Arena last year. Las Vegas is a popular and easy getaway for Western Canadians.With temperatures in Calgary around minus-20 C on Friday, Jon Killoran of the Reno Tahoe Winter Games Coalition pointed out it was 19 C in Las Vegas and said the pool will once again be open if that weather is the same next year.The 2014 Continental Cup benefited from the buildup to the Winter Olympics less than a month later in Sochi, Russia.NBC was there every day covering curling, Jones recalled. They were there when we won the gold-medal game, they talked about us on David Letterman.Curling is making a statement in the States and we have to keep that momentum going. Its great news in my opinion that were bringing it back to Vegas. 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