The Erie RiverRats open their American Indoor Football Association season Sunday at 4 p.m. at Baltimore. A look around the league:
Times-News staff writer John Dudley wrote this week about Fielding Cloud, who will be a practice player with the RiverRats but whose story is about much more than football.
RiverRats linebacker and former Edinboro player Seth Fragale wrote an open letter on the team's Web site.
Erie settled on its 30-player roster this week after training camp ended.
The Florence Phantoms are the defending champions.
The Reading Express hopes to get over the championship hump.
Trenton, N.J., will get an expansion team in 2010.
Former NFL player Woody Dantzler signed with the Harrisburg Stampede.
Listen to the Week 2 broadcast of This Week in AIFA.
The D.C. Armor, Erie's opponent in its home opener March 28, is an expansion team this year.