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No commissioner? No problem. Losing millions of dollars? Big deal. The UFL, a football league started in 2009 by San Francisco investment banker Bill Hambrecht, will play yet again this year. Hambrecht, quoted in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, said: “We’re moving forward. We fully expect to play.” The UFL has had a tough time in its short life. The league, which drafts players who did not make NFL rosters and players from college, has had...  

UFL founder Bill Hambrecht told The Las Vegas Review-Journal that the UFL plans to return this fall as a five team league.  Last year's four franchises in Las Vegas, Virginia, Sacramento, and Omaha will be joined by a fifth team...reportedly in San Antonio.  This year's big development is that the UFL is reportedly near a deal with CBS Sports Network to televise games.  Games would be played mid-week beginning in mid-September.Television money...  

Woof I don't remember anybody being bowled over by North Carolina State's decision to hire veteran basketball coach Mark Gottfried last year. But after reaching the NCAA's Sweet 16, bringing in some promising new recruits and hanging on to C.J. Leslie ...  

The Sparks leaned on the Younghusband brothers to fashion out a 3-nil victory over the undermanned Stallions in another emotionally charged match that drew 10 yellow and two red cards at the University of Makati football field today. James ...  

MANILA, Philippines - Undermanned Global FC leaned on an injury time goal by Carli de Murga as it repulsed an upset-conscious Navy Red Juice, 3-2, to seize the solo lead in the First Division of the United Football League at the University of Makati field ...  

The UFL closed its league office in Jacksonville, Fla., and temporarily suspended its local operations. Rick Mueller, who was Omaha's general manager the past two seasons, has taken a job with the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League.  

A few days ago, Las Vegas Locos owner Bill Hambrecht told the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the struggling United Football League expected to play its fourth season this fall, but now there’s more troubling news on the money front. According to ...  

MANILA, Philippines -- Agila FC blanked Team Socceroo FC, 5-0, to remain at solo third and within striking distance of the leaders in the Second Division of the United Football League at the University of Makati field in Makati City over the weekend.  

SPORTS officials in the country are divided over whether to construct a new football coliseum that could be the home base of the national football team or renovate the existing stadium in the Rizal Memorial Complex in Manila.  

PLUMSTED — The Plumsted Board of Education last week discussed the possibility of bringing back two interscholastic middle school sports teams, as well as freshman basketball and football at New Egypt High School in 2012-13.  

Basketball and football excellence seldom go hand in hand in college sports – at least not in the same academic year – and the teams playing in Saturday’s NCAA Final Four in New Orleans are no exception.  

Every sports community has its triumphs and tragedies, and Oakland's passionate and enduring relationship with sports, particularly basketball, provides it with rich representations of each.  

Italy could ill afford another football scandal just six years after the infamous Calciopoli match-fixing affair with memories even still fresh from the Totonero scandal in 1980.  

PeoplExpress Airlines Inc. has named the owner of a United Football League team as its chairman of the board.  

Stillwater basketball alumni tournament set for this weekend