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FanHouse Roundtable: Wild Card Weekend ... and the Coaching Carousel

It's a Wild Card Weekend full of subplots: • For the first time since the merger, a sub-.500 team, the 7-9 Seahawks, not only qualified for the playoffs, but will host a game, against the 11-5 defending Super Bowl-champion Saints on Saturday afternoon. • The Jets, who have been talking Super Bowl since "Hard...

Playing in UFL Beats Sitting on Couch, Waiting for Call

To play or not to play . . . With apologies to Bill Shakespeare, that's a question that many an out-of-work professional football player now finds himself pondering since the United Football League came into existence in 2009. The UFL provides 260 jobs for players that, in the past, would have spent the fall waiting...

Culpepper and Garcia, Faces of the UFL, Go Head-to-Head

As the fledgling United Football League struggles to make inroads on the American sporting landscape, there's as least one area where it can stand toe-to-toe with the NFL this weekend: under center. While the much-ballyhooed showdown between Michael Vick and Donovan McNabb in Philadelphia on Sunday promises to be a...

In Efforts to Upgrade Talent, UFL Coaches Sell, Sell, Sell

After the Sacramento Mountain Lions were defeated 27-10 to the Hartford Colonials last weekend, the team decided to release eight players, quickly replacing them with new names, including Worrell Williams, who was recently released from the Denver Broncos. Dennis Green, longtime NFL coach, now coaches the UFL's Mountain...

With UFL, Doug Williams Eager to Add Management to Pioneering Resume

NORFOLK, Va. -- As his weekend in his new pro football home drew to an end -- a charity golf tournament behind him and the Houston Texans-Washington Redskins game in front -- Doug Williams was greeting fans in the lobby of a downtown hotel. Fans thanking him for his play for their favorite team and wishing him luck with...