NEW YORK, NY (August 27, 2009) – The United Football League’s New York Sentinels announced 17 more names for its “Premiere” season roster including DE Simeon Rice.  Drafted by the Arizona Cardinals third overall in the 1996 NFL Draft, Rice is credited with over 120 sacks, earned three Pro Bowl selections and contributed to the Buccaneer’s Super Bowl XXXVII victory.

The complete list of players being announced today includes:

Pos.    Player                                                College

WR     Brown, Preston                                Tulane

CB      Brown, Trey                                      UCLA

DT       Davis, Dan                                       Connecticut

DE      Fountain, Maurice                            Clemson

TE       Ghent, Ronnie                                  Louisville

DB      Hardin, Dre’Mail                              Stillman East

DT       Harwell, Brigham                             UCLA

P         Horvath, Ryan                                   Drake University

DS      Lofton, David                                    Stanford

DB      Mitchell, Lionel                                 East Stroudsburg

OT       Pruneda, Ramiro                             Monterrey Tech, Mexico

DE      Rice, Simeon                                    Illinois

OG      Robertson, Erik                                California

DT       Save, Bryan                                      Colorado State

DE      Spicer, Michale                                Western Carolina

RB      Toefield, Labrandon                         LSU

This is the second player announcement release for the New York Sentinels. For a complete Sentinels’ roster (as of today), please visit http://www.ufl-football.com/teams/new_york_sentinels/players.

As previously announced, the Sentinels will play three home games in its “Premiere” season at Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands Sports Complex on October 29^th, Citi Field on November 4^th and Rentschler Field in Hartford on November 12^th.

Tickets for the game at Giants Stadium at the Meadowlands go on-sale Saturday, August 29 at noon.

• Tickets can be purchased via www.ticketmaster.com, charge-by-phone at 800-745-3000 or any Ticketmaster outlet ONLY.
• If tickets remain, tickets will be available at the IZOD Center Box Office (Mon-Fri 11 AM-6 PM) beginning Monday, August 31 at 11 AM.  Additional fees may apply.
• Group Tickets may also be purchased at the IZOD Center Group Sales at 201.460.4370.

To purchase tickets for the New York game at Rentschler Field in Hartford on November 12th:

• Call Ticketmaster Charge by Phone at 800.745.3000 or log onto www.ticketmaster.com.
• Visit the XL Center Box Office, which is open Monday-Friday from NOON- 5.  The XL Center Box Office is located in the XL Center Atrium outside Main Entrance to the arena, on the corner of Asylum and Trumbull Streets.  Please note the XL Center Box Office does not sell tickets to an event on the first day tickets are on-sale.

Please continue to check our website, www.ufl-football.com, for the on-sale date for the Sentinels’ game at Citi Field on November 4^th.   For all UFL games, groups larger than 10 are eligible for group discount packages and other benefits.  For more information about group packages and accompanying fan experiences such as pre-game field visits and creation of fan tunnels for players to run through, please contact UFL Group Tickets at 877.UFL.2009.

Editorial Note: Simeon Rice signing with the UFL was first reported on UFLAccess.com