California Redwoods: Playing the Field

Ron Bodine takes a look at the various options in Northern California for the California Redwoods in 2010. This look at different possibilities comes on the heels of the report earlier in the week that Sacramento will be the likely home of the Redwoods in the upcoming United Football League season.

The Hard Knocks of the United Football League

The United Football League has taken a lot of knocks for their attendance and the lack of media attention that the league, at times, received. What is often overlooked, however, is that it was in some ways a miracle they even played in the first place. The journey of the league and the way they overcame many obstacles does not excuse them for any mistakes they made in year one but it does make their journey all the more remarkable.

More from Media Day: A Conversation with Paul Pelosi

Paul Pelosi seems to be loving every minute of being an owner in the United Football League. He has traveled to many of the games and before that he traveled to many of the events leading up to the launch of the league. Everywhere he traveled he seemed to have a smile on his face – owning a football team just seems to be fun for Pelosi.

Commissioner Huyghue on the State of the United Football League

Michael Huyghue opened up his State of the League Address by saying, “This league was an idea ten years in the making, an idea of William Hambrecht’s. The idea evolved over time but we went out with a few core principles. One, we wanted to be in non-NFL markets as much as possible. Two, the appetite for football in this country is insatiable. We decided we were going to build with football people and have a high quality product. Our mission, period, was quality and we thought we could get NFL caliber players who could provide 80% of the quality of an NFL guy at 20% of the cost.”

The Morning After: It’s UFL Championship Week!

The week of the Championship Game has arrived and UFLAccess.com will have all of the coverage that UFL fans can handle. I will be posting a daily blog beginning in Tuesday live from Las Vegas, tomorrow night we will have a special Championship Game edition of “Inside the UFL” at 8 PM EST with a round table preview of the game, and on Wednesday we will be livetweeting the United Football League’s first ever Media Day at http://www.twitter.com/UFLAccess. (Image, left, courtesy of the United Football League)

UFLAccess.com The Morning After: The Attendance Edition

Week two of the United Football League is in the books, meaning we’re roughly one third of the way through the Premiere Season in turns of total games. What did we learn last week?

Redwoods Defeat Sentinels 24-7

SAN FRANCISCO (October 17, 2009) – In the California Redwoods home opener tonight at AT&T Park, running back Cory Ross rushed for 121 yards and a touchdown, and wide receiver Doug Gabriel had 6 receptions for 70 yards, propelling the Redwoods to a 24-7 win over the New York Sentinels. A complete box score can be obtained here.

Redwoods’ quarterback Mike McMahon, making his first UFL start, opened the scoring with a 2-yard touchdown pass to tight end Kai Brown with 9:39 remaining in the first quarter.

UFLA Preview: The Redwoods and Sentinels Tonight at 9 PM EST/6PM PST

On Saturday night the California Redwoods will play host to the New York Sentinels at AT&T Park in San Francisco. The game kicks off at 9 PM Eastern/6 PM local time and will be televised on HDNet and webcast via ufl-football.com.

This content was originally seen as a secondary battle to what promised to be an epic fight between the Locos and Tuskers. After the Locos failed to show up, or more exactly after their offensive line looked like a gaggle of high schoolers, the game on Saturday night offers…