Just two days into his job with the Florida Tuskers, Brooks Bollinger may already be working his way into the starting lineup.

"I think he made some ground today," Tuskers Coach Jim Haslett said. "If you just watch his demeanor alone you can tell he's a heck of a football player."

You can't doubt the energy that former NFL players Doug Flutie and Kordell Stewart will bring to the broadcast booth for the new United Football League.

"That was Kordell's first question when I called him and said, 'We need you for the UFL,' " Chief Operating Officer Frank Vuono said. "And he said, 'You mean to play?' I told him, 'That's up to you. I don't know what kinda shape you're in there Stewie, but hey ...' "

New sports leagues figure they can survive by hooking a fraction of a sport's existing fan base. So football, as the sports world's great white whale, is the most obvious spawning ground.

The United Football League announced today an opportunity to win its ‘Ultimate Fan Experience’ sweepstakes where fans in each market can win incredible prizes and get a unique insider’s perspective at UFL games. 

The Florida Tuskers and New York Sentinels now have five days of practice in the books, but that doesn't necessarily mean coaches Jim Haslett and Ted Cottrell have everything all figured out.

They're seeing many of these players for the first time this week, and they only gone with shorts and shoulder pads in practice, working mostly on conditioning and offensive and defensive walk-thrus.