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The estimation from National Football League Players Association executive director DeMaurice Smith that, on a scale of 1 to 10, the chances of a lockout happening in 2011 are “a 14” isn’t good news for fans of NFL teams. It could be the best news yet for the United Football League, however.

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Instant Analysis: Redwoods to Sacramento Rumor

For those of you who couldn’t wait any longer for some United Football League off-season news, Tuesday’s edition of the Sacramento Bee was your much-needed tonic.

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• Channel 6 news out of Orlando reports tonight what we already knew - Jay Gruden to coach the UFL's Florida Tuskers #
• RUMOR: San Antonio and Omaha to be year two expansion teams? #
• UFL Access 4.0 has launched! We hope you enjoy our new design as we move into 2010 and prepare for the United Football League's second season. #
• It is more important to get it right than to get it fast. That is one of the most important tenets of journalism. For almost 17 years, I have done my job with that sentence being at the top of the list of things that is a reflex, not something that I need to be reminded of. The problem for “Dusty Sloan, football fan” was that I didn’t always live by the automatic credo that “Dusty Sloan, journalist” always has. Confessions of a converted football realist. #
• Very few professional football leagues not named the National Football League or Canadian Football League get to see six years old. No one knows what the odds are for the United Football League getting to that milestone. But it’s fun to speculate about what the UFL could look like by 2015. Of course, all of this is predicated on the league staying with its economic model (i.e. not getting into a bidding war with the NFL after growing to a certain point), not expanding too fast and not directly being tied in with the NFL, which it won’t be. One man's look to 2015... #