OMAHA, NE — With sellout crowds and unprecedented buzz in their hometown, the Omaha Nighthawks have been the big story of the United Football League season. But the Las Vegas Locomotives showed Thursday why the defending UFL champions are still the league's main force to be reckoned with.
On a typical windy Las Vegas fall afternoon, Steven Hauschka’s game-winning field goal Saturday for the Las Vegas Locomotives football team was easier said than done. The distance of the 53-yard attempt was only half the battle.
Rattay ruptured Achilles tendon in victory at Sacramento
By Case Keefer
If the Las Vegas Locomotives hope to repeat as UFL champions, they will have to do it without their starting quarterback. The Locomotives have placed Tim Rattay on the injured reserved list, coach Jim Fassel announced through a press release Sunday afternoon.
The Las Vegas Locomotives forced a league-record six turnovers in a 26-3 road victory over the Mountain Lions in front of an estimated Sacramento crowd of 19,000 fans. Locomotives running back Marcel Shipp scored the game’s only offensive touchdown on a five-yard run up the middle of the fourth quarter.
UFL: Las Vegas plays the Sacramento Mountain Lions on the road Friday night
By Case Keefer
Las Vegas Locomotives cornerback Isaiah Trufant has arguably made the two most significant defensive plays in the history of the United Football League. Last year, Trufant set up the Locos game-winning field goal in overtime of the UFL Championship with an interception. Last weekend, Trufant returned an interception for a touchdown against the Omaha Nighthawks to give Las Vegas a lead it never relinquished.
The Las Vegas Locomotives handed the Omaha Nighthawks their first franchise loss Friday, nailing down a 22-10 win in front of a crowd of 9,767 at Sam Boyd Stadium. After a slow start on both sides of the ball nearly allowed the Nighthawks to jump to an early two-possession lead, the Locomotives settled down and scored 19 unanswered points to finish the game.
Clarett playing a lot of special teams, some running back for Omaha
By Case Keefer
Maurice Clarett never stopped dreaming about football. Even as the former Ohio State star running back spent the last three and a half years in prison, he knew he could make a comeback.
DeDe Dorsey accounted for more than 200 yards in his return to the team
By Case Keefer
A week after returning to the team, DeDe Dorsey may have saved the Las Vegas Locomotives' season. Dorsey, the leading rusher on last year’s UFL Championship team, compiled 204 yards of total offense in Las Vegas’ 20-17 victory against the Florida Tuskers in Orlando Thursday. “I just needed a refresher course to pick up the offense,” Dorsey said. “We felt our backs would be better than the linebackers covering us.”
Dorsey should help Locomotives running game improve in second game of the season
By Case Keefer
DeDe Dorsey did all he could to watch the Las Vegas Locomotives season opener two weeks ago at Sam Boyd Stadium. It just wasn’t meant to be. “I wasn’t at home, so I tried to watch it on the Internet,” Dorsey said. “But it was really choppy and I couldn’t see anything.”
Despite close score, Florida out-gained Las Vegas 419 to 186
By Case Keefer
Coach Jim Fassel hoped these were the tracks the Las Vegas Locomotives could avoid. The Locomotives chugged right off course in their quest to defend last year’s UFL title, falling to the Florida Tuskers ¬27-20 Saturday night at Sam Boyd Stadium in their season opener.
If there’s such thing as a rivalry in the United Football League, it’s between the Las Vegas Locomotives and the Florida Tuskers. Las Vegas, the inaugural champions of the UFL, kick off the league’s second season Saturday at 8 at Sam Boyd Stadium against the Tuskers.
Rattay has impressed Locomotives coach Jim Fassel so far at training camp
By Case Keefer
At the start of the United Football League offseason, Las Vegas Locomotives coach Jim Fassel wanted to be honest with quarterback Tim Rattay. Fassel told Rattay, J.P. Losman’s backup on last year’s championship team, there was a chance he could be Las Vegas’ quarterback in 2010. But Fassel also said he planned to scout around and see if there were any other signal callers he was more interested in.
League's $20,000 donation gives some area teams an extra game
By Case Keefer
Mention high school football and the memories come rushing back to Jim Fassel. The Las Vegas Locomotives coach recollects on growing up around Anaheim (Calif.) High School football and spending time with his father, who was the team's equipment manager.
Locomotives hold open practices daily from 8 to 10:30 a.m.
By Case Keefer
No one in the country was happier about being at Las Vegas Locomotives football practice Tuesday morning than Ed Hartwell. Hartwell, the Las Vegas native and eight-year NFL veteran, flew around the Sam Boyd Stadium field with a smile on his face as the Locomotives ran through drills during their first training-camp practice of the year.
prep football: Junior signal caller completes the right passes in leading Wildcats to 7-on-7 title
By Ray Brewer
Las Vegas High quarterback Hassan Henderson dropped back to pass looking for his favorite receiver. But Marquan Major, the Wildcats’ top threat and arguably the best wide receiver in Southern Nevada, was doubled covered — again.
