USA recently hosted a Twenty20 series between Sri Lanka and New Zealand, and Lockerbie said that was the first step towards getting more fans to the game. "We are looking to bring in the best teams in the world," he said. "Even 14 years after the Major League Soccer started in the United States they are averaging 14,000, 17,000, 18,000 people to a match, which isn't too bad.They're dirty, they're cheap and whenever we played this team, the coaches would always say, 'Guys, beware. They're gonna take a cheap shot at you. They're gonna try to provoke you into doing something.' ".

"It was more so on cutting and like on downhill plays, power plays, I wasn't really being as explosive as I wanted to be up top to the hole. But I kind of figured it would be like that.''Safety Mistral Raymond could return to the playing field as early as Nov. 4 when the Vikings travel to Seattle for a Week 9 game."Innovation, almost by definition, involves ideas that no