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The USFL is back in business. Ray Ban Sunglasses Discount . Well, almost. A reincarnation of the league, with an entirely different business model, plans to kick off in March. On Thursday, it included Hall of Fame receiver Fred Biletnikoff among its advisers. Biletnikoff will consult on football operations for the league, which originally went out of business in 1987 after losing millions of dollars and, despite winning a lawsuit against the NFL, being awarded just $3 in indemnities. That version unwisely chose to challenge the NFL, while this one will be more of a developmental league. "We will not try to compete with the NFL at all," said CEO Jaime Cuadra after adding Biletnikoff and James Bailey, an executive for the Cleveland Browns and then the Baltimore Ravens for 21 years, to the USFLs board of advisers. The board will be responsible for guiding USFL management on various areas of operations, eventually focusing on a search for the leagues commissioner. "We will play in markets where there are no NFL teams or major league baseball teams. Its a league for guys who are on the bubble for making NFL teams, and we will have complete open access for the NFL. We want to build a model that is sustainable." The USFL is looking at a 14-game season from March until June in eight cities. Its players would then be free to join NFL clubs at their training camps. All player and coach contracts will be owned by the league, with salaries not approaching anything the NFL offers. Cities currently being considered are Portland, Ore.; Salt Lake City; San Antonio or Austin, Texas; Columbus or Akron, Ohio; Oklahoma City; Omaha, Neb.; Raleigh/Durham, N.C.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Memphis, Tenn. "These are cities with underutilized facilities at that time of year," Cuadra said. Nearly all of them also have avid college football followings, something the USFL hopes to draw from. Cuadra said regional draft picks would be used so that, say, a player who attended Oregon or Oregon State would wind up with a Portland franchise. One critical item the USFL has only begun to investigate is a television partner. The UFL, which finished its third season in the fall of 2011 with five teams, has struggled to find a TV audience. Of course, it plays its games during the NFL schedule. The USFL will avoid such dead-end conflicts. "We have nothing lined up yet, and we are doing our research and investigating the landscape of sports television today, which is ever-changing," Cuadra said. Also advising the new USFL is Jim Steeg, who spent 35 years in the NFL, is a former COO of the San Diego Chargers, and was the leagues main organizers of the Super Bowl for 26 years as senior vice-president of special events. wholesale jerseys .C. -- Tony Romo found a way to win a close game, something Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers are still trying to learn.jerseys from china . -- Canadas mens soccer team can eliminate much of the guesswork at the CONCACAF Gold Cup with a victory over Panama on Tuesday. http://www.cheapjerseysnflchina.us/. Consensus among Canadian players is that they enter Tuesdays first-place showdown with the Americans as the clear underdogs following a shootout loss to the Czech Republic on Saturday and a white-knuckle, come-from-behind win against Slovakia on Monday. jerseys from china . Ibrahimovics one-man show in Stockholm -- featuring what both his opponents and pundits hailed as one of the greatest goals seen in recent years -- overshadowed two high-profile matches between fierce European rivals, with the Netherlands and Germany drawing 0-0 and France coming from behind to beat Italy 2-1 away. Cheap NFL Jerseys .D. -- A University of North Dakota spokesman says the school still plans to drop its Fighting Sioux nickname despite the Legislature voting to order the school to keep it. Canadian womens basketball head coach Allison McNeill says her team is ready to take advantage of its last chance to reach the Summer Games. Canada was drawn in a pool with France and Mali on Wednesday for the 2012 FIBA Olympic qualifying tournament in Turkey. McNeill, who has been with the national program for over a decade, said the squad that will head to Ankara for the June 25-July 1 event will be the strongest team she has ever put on the floor. She credits the development within the program, the teams maturation and the strong commitment of the players. "I think thats what this group has done," McNeill said from Burnaby, B.C. "Its by far the best group Ive coached." Experienced veterans like Kim Smith and Teresa Gabriele, both of Mission, B.C., and Chelsea Aubry of Kitchener, Ont., will be counted on to lead a team that is currently ranked 11th in the world. France holds the No. 8 position and Mali is at No. 19. Five of the 12 countries at the tournament will advance to the Games in London. "Do we have to play well? Yes. Do we have to get some breaks? Yes, of course," McNeill saaid. Cheap Jerseys. "But I know the players believe that we can get one of those five berths." Canadas last Olympic appearance came at the 2000 Games in Sydney. The Canadians finished fifth in their group with a 2-3 record and settled for 10th overall. Canada has been strong at the defensive end in recent years and McNeill is confident the offence will continue to improve. Canada is coming off a third-place finish at the FIBA Americas Championship last fall in Colombia. "I think weve been really striving and working," McNeill said. "A lot of people have 2012 circled on their calendar." In Turkey, the four quarter-final winners advance to London, and the four losers play a knockout bracket to decide the fifth qualifier. The other groups are Japan, Puerto Rico and Turkey; Argentina, Czech Republic and New Zealand; and Croatia, South Korea and Mozambique. The groups will play round-robin matches, with two advancing from each pool to the quarter-finals. The 12-country London lineup already includes host Britain, Angola, Australia, Brazil, China, Russia and the United States. cheap jerseys ' ' '