The Omaha Nighthawks will open the 2011 season at TD Ameritrade Park against coach Marty Schottenheimer and the Virginia Destroyers on Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. This is the first of three home games, part of the UFL's new six-game schedule after contracting the Hartford Colonials.

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The Omaha Nighthawks targeted a few specific needs and did some speculating in picking six players off the defunct Hartford Colonials roster in Monday's United Football League allocation draft. Omaha General Manager Rick Mueller said three of the players selected — offensive tackle Orrin Thompson, defensive back Chad Nkang and safety Terrell Skinner — will be added to the Nighthawks' active roster. The other three — offensive lineman Kyle Calloway, running back Lorenzo Booker...

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The Omaha Nighthawks got down to the business of preparing for a football season Wednesday after the UFL declared itself alive and well. Perhaps well is too strong a word to describe the condition of the 3-year-old league, but at least the UFL came off life support with the announcement that it was forging ahead with plans to field four teams and play a six-game season in 2011. “It’s a bittersweet day,” UFL Commissioner Michael Huyghue said on an afternoon conference call.

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Commissioner Michael Huyghue is expected to announce Wednesday that the United Football League will play its 2011 season. The status of the financially strapped league had been in limbo since last month, when Huyghue announced a 30-day delay in the opening of training camps. A person with knowledge of the situation told The World-Herald that the commissioner planned to make an announcement regarding the fate of the UFL's third season on Wednesday.

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The United Football League is considering contraction as it struggles to survive this season, Hartford Colonials coach Jerry Glanville said Wednesday. Glanville told the Associated Press he expects to find out within a week whether his team will play in 2011 or be folded by the UFL. A decision to fold the Colonials would leave the UFL with franchises in Omaha, Las Vegas, Sacramento and Norfolk, Va.

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Former Nebraska receiver Maurice Purify is no longer with the Omaha Nighthawks.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.The uncertain future of the United Football League grew a bit murkier Tuesday in spite of Commissioner Michael Huyghue’s insistence that the league’s third season will go on as planned. Huyghue talked with reporters on a conference call a couple of hours after announcing in a statement that training camps and the start of the regular season have been pushed back a month. Instead of starting play in mid-August, the UFL’s eight-game season should begin in September.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.The last place Stuart Schweigert expected to be Tuesday night was driving across middle America on a 750-mile trip back home to Michigan. But that's where the Omaha Nighthawks' safety found himself after the United Football League put the start of its third season on hold, delaying the opening of training camp for 30 days and pushing back the start of the regular season into September. "It's a tough pill to swallow," Schweigert said.

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Premium ContentClick on Premium Content on the Featured navigation bar for information.The regular season won't kick off until September. ... The United Football League will put the start of its 2011 season on hold, delaying the start of training camp by a month and the beginning of the regular season until early September. A source with connections throughout the five-team league told The World-Herald on Monday that training camps, which were supposed to start Tuesday, will not open until Aug. 15. Regular-season games will begin the weekend of Sept. 10, and the league plans to...

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