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Los Angeles Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was named Monday as the National League Pitcher of the Month for July. No surprise there. Kershaw, who also earned the title after throwing his first career no-hitter in June, had a 1.07 ERA in five July starts with 43 strikeouts in 42 innings to post a 4-0 record against Colorado, San Diego, San Francisco and Atlanta. The Dodgers won the other game, too, despite Kershaw giving up (gasp) three runs in seven innings against St. Louis. Kershaw won the award for the fourth time in his career. Washington Nationals outfielder Jayson Werth was named Monday as the National League Player of the Month for July. Werth earned the award for a second time in his career after bating .337 in 24 games with an NL-leading 24 runs batted in, including six game-winning RBI. The 35-year-old right fielder was voted NL Player of the Month for the first time last July. New York Mets righthander Jacob deGrom was named NL Rookie of the Month. The 26-year-old went 4-1 in July with 38 strikeouts, a 1.05 WHIP and an ERA of 1.39. He carried a no-hitter into the seventh inning of his last start, a 4-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants. Chicago White Sox slugger Jose Abreu was named both the American League Player and Rookie of the Month again on Monday. The 27-year-old first baseman became the first player ever to win both awards in the same month twice in one season. He also did it in April, joining Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Yasiel Puig as the only players ever to be named the top player after their first month in the majors. Abreu was also named Rookie of the Month in June and is the fourth player to win the award at least three times. He batted .374 in July with a .432 on-base percentage, six homers, 11 doubles and 19 RBI in 25 games. Oakland Athletics right-hander Sonny Gray was named the American League Pitcher of the Month on Monday after winning all five of his starts in July. Gray, 24, had a 1.03 ERA with 31 strikeouts in 35 innings, allowing just four combined earned runs in starts against Toronto, San Francisco, Seattle, Baltimore and Texas. He was named pitcher of the month for the first time in April and is the first As hurler to win the award twice in one season since Barry Zito in 2001. Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp and the New York Yankees Brett Gardner earned Player of the Week honours for the period ending Aug. 4. Vincent Lecavalier Jersey . UCI President Brian Cookson said Wednesday the commission will investigate allegations "that the UCI has been involved in wrongdoing in the past -- allegations which have done so much to hurt the credibility of the UCI and our sport. Martin St. Louis Jersey . -- EJ Manuel followed the worst game of his career with the best. http://www.hockeylightning.com/customized/. I kind of got a taste of being able to pick a suit with the draft lottery, I went with the bow tie. Nikita Kucherov Jersey .com) - Guard Greivis Vasquez and forward Patrick Patterson, two key pieces to the Toronto Raptors run to an Atlantic Division title in 2013-14, were both given qualifying offers by the team on Saturday. Steven Stamkos Jersey . The Calgary Stampeders announced both moves on Wednesday. Parker played 17 regular season games with the Stampeders in 2013, setting career-highs in catches (21) and yards (217).There were rumours throughout the NHL season that the Minnesota Wild would be a free agent destination for a particular top goal-scoring winger and, when free agency opened, they got their man. Numbers Game looks at the Wild signing Thomas Vanek. The Wild Get: LW Thomas Vanek. Vanek, 30, has been one of the most prolific goal-scorers in the game. Since 2006-2007, his 252 goals ranks fourth, behind Alex Ovechkin, Jarome Iginla and Ilya Kovalchuk. Vanek is a four-time 30-goal scorer who has scored at least 20 goals in each of the last nine seasons. Only Ovechkin and Rick Nash have managed that same feat. So, with that goal-scoring resume, Vanek should have been incredibly appealing as a free agent, but there was the small matter of his slump in the playoffs that left a sour taste for some. Vanek had eight points in 10 games, through Game Six of the Boston series, but fell flat after that, managing two assists and a total of eight shots on goal in the next seven games. He played under 15 minutes in each of his last eight playoff games. For a season in which he played a career-high 19:21 per game, with the Sabres, Islanders and Canadiens, that role reduction made it clear that Vanek would be moving on from Montreal. This following a season during which he scored 15 points in 18 games with the Habs, giving him 68 points in 78 games while moving around the Eastern Conference. Which brings us to Minnesota, which had been linked to Vanek pretty much from the get-go of his contract year. Vanek played college hockey at the University of Minnesota. His wife is from Minnesota. The Wild would have Dany Heatleys $7.5-million cap hit coming off the books. Former Sabres teammate Jason Pominville was playing well for Minnesota. It was all lining up for Vanek with the Wild. Ultimately, nothing really changed that. Maybe a great playoff would have given Vanekk more leverage on the open market, but he didnt sign a break-the-bank deal, inking for $19.dddddddddddd5-million over three years. The $6.5-million annual cap hit is actually less than Vaneks previous contract, but when a player has a preferred destination, and particularly when he has earned a boatload of money in his career already (more than $57-million in his career, according to Cap Geek), there is an opportunity for a team to get him for less than the top price on the market. That Vanek was willing to accept a three-year term is a clear indication that Minnesota was his preferred location. When it comes to his game, Vanek doesnt use his size (6-foot-2, 205 pounds) very effectively, aside from when hes in front of the net, where he positions well for tip-ins, deflections, screens, etc. Throughout his career, Vanek hasnt been much of a puck possession player, varying up and down a little bit in relative terms from year to year, but Vanek has always been a high-percentage finisher in his own right and consistently had high on-ice shooting percentages (which includes others on the ice with him in 5-oin-5 play), so hes going to bring offence to Minnesota. Depending on how the Wild want their lines to shake out, Vanek should have either Mikael Granlund or Mikko Koivu -- two pass-first playmaking centres -- setting the table for him and if Vanek is getting opportunties -- he had a career-high 3.18 shots on goal per game last season -- take 25 goals to the bank, with 30 or 35 possible at the top end. This is a nice upgrade for the Wild, who made some noise in the playoffs and have added a premier goal-scorer to their mix and have done so without spending too much in order to get him. Scott Cullen can be reached at Scott.Cullen@bellmedia.ca and followed on Twitter at http://twitter.com/tsnscottcullen. For more, check out TSN Fantasy on Facebook. 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