NEW ORLEANS -- The Saints and Jonathan Goodwin have agreed to a one-year contract bringing the veteran centre back to New Orleans, the club announced Tuesday. The 35-year-old Goodwin has spent the past three seasons with San Francisco, playing in three straight NFC title games and a Super Bowl. Goodwin played for New Orleans from 2006 to 2010, starting the last three of those seasons. He was named to a Pro Bowl and won a Super Bowl in the 2009 season. His new deal is worth $955,000, a person familiar with negotiations told The Associated Press, speaking on condition of anonymity because financial terms were not released. The Saints also signed defensive lineman Brandon Deaderick to a one-year contract, general manager Mickey Loomis said. Prior to the re-acquisition of Goodwin, second-year pro Tim Lelito and undrafted rookie Matt Armstrong were the top candidates to take over the Saints starting centre job, which was vacated by Brian de la Puente when he left for Chicago in free agency. The experience of the 6-foot-3, 318-pound Goodwin, a 12-year veteran, will give him an edge. Lelito saw limited action last season, but only as a reserve guard, while his work as a backup centre was limited to practice. At the same time, the Saints see the 6-4, 315-pound Lelito as a promising prospect and also have asserted that a young centre can thrive in their system, in part because quarterback Drew Brees calls out the bulk of blocking adjustments at the line of scrimmage and in part because whoever plays centre will have a pair of veteran Pro Bowlers on either side of him in guards Jahri Evans and Ben Grubbs. However, because off-season practices do not involve full contact, it has been difficult for coaches to fully evaluate how ready Lelito is to be a regular centre. "Tim is someone that has handled the transition right now pretty well," coach Sean Payton said last week. "But he is going to have to, when we get into training camp, do it in a live setting." Like Lelito, the 6-2, 302-pound Armstrong played at Grand Valley State. Last season, he was named by the Rimington Award committee as the nations top Division II centre. Evans is the only starter on the offensive line who also started during Goodwins last season in New Orleans. Goodwin was teammates with Zach Strief for five seasons, but Strief did not take over as the starter at right tackle until 2011, the year Goodwin left for San Francisco. On the left side of the line are Grubbs, who was acquired as a free agent in 2012, and tackle Terron Armstrong, who was drafted in 2013. 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Francis Martes Jersey . -- Arizona coach Bruce Arians says there "were obviously very, very many problems" with the officiating in the Cardinals 24-21 loss at Philadelphia.ARE, Sweden - Marcel Hirscher was bitterly disappointed to discover he would not be skiing on his favourite French slope but going to the icy-cold Sweden mountains instead.The switch worked out perfectly.The Austrian won Sundays World Cup slalom to add to his crushing victory in Fridays giant slalom, mastering the conditions on the rock-hard Olympia course to perfection and moving top of the overall rankings.He overcame a first-leg deficit of .25 seconds to edge out German skier Felix Neureuther by.10 for his 26th career victory — moving him level with Austrian great Franz Klammer.The two races were initially scheduled to take place in Val dIsere, France — where Hirscher has won two GS races before — but were moved to freezing northern Sweden due to a lack of snow in the French Alps.In the beginning, when I heard the decision about the replacement of the World Cup races to Are, I thought Oh my God, my lovely race hill in Val dIsere is cancelled, Hirscher said. Finally, I have to say it doesnt matter. It is good here in Are. I liked it.So did Russian Alexander Khoroshilov, who finished .15 behind for a career-best third place.In the overall standings, Hirscher has 440 points, with Norways Kjetil Jansrud second with 412 and American Ted Ligety — who crashed out in Sundays second run — third with 246.Hirscher, who beat Ligety by 1.22 seconds to win Fridays giant slalom, is one of only five Austrian men to have won 25 career races and moves level with Franz Klammer.Ligety was third after the first run but lost control of his skis midway down the second after taking a turn too wide and failed to finish.Olympic champion Mario Matt of Austria, fourth quickest in the morning, also failed to finishh his second run.ddddddddddddHirscher now has a podium finish in all five races he has competed in so far this season.He won the season-opening giant slalom at Soelden, Austria; finished second in slalom at Levi, Finland, and third in GS at Beaver Creek, Colorado.Im tired at the moment. The past three weeks have been pretty hard for all of us, with a lot of travelling, Hirscher said. It is not easy at the beginning of the season until Christmas.His 26 wins put him three behind another Austrian great, Stephan Eberharter, whom Hirscher will be confident of catching this season. He will then be able to set his sights on veteran Benjamin Raich (36) next season. Hermann Maier remains way ahead, though, with 54 World Cup wins.Neureuther was eyeing a 10th World Cup win, and eighth in slalom, but had to settle for his second podium of the season after again finishing behind Hirscher at Levi.Khoroshilov had never finished higher than eighth and it was only his sixth top-10 finish.Ligety, meanwhile, must wait a little longer before moving up on the all-time list of giant slalom winners. He is level in second place on 23 wins with Switzerlands Michael von Gruenigen. Swedish great Ingemar Stenmark leads with 46.Pushing hard to make up time, Ligetys skis bumped off the rock-hard Olympia course and he could not regain control. He had four metal plates inserted into his left wrist after a training accident nearly three weeks ago.U.S. mens coach Sasha Rearick said Ligety will stay and train a couple of days on the steeps in Are to work on his balance.Ted was charging and having a good run, Rearick said of Sundays performance. Ted was doing what he needed to do to step on the podium today. ' ' '