Fernando Velasco, signed a week earlier, started in his place Monday, and the Steelers didn't do much better, gaining only 44 yards on the ground. They failed to get a first down on seven of their 12 possessions, which kept their defense from getting much rest. "There's not a lot of positives going on right now," said quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who was 20 of 37 for 251 yards with one touchdown and a deflected interception.A distribution deal with National Beverage Corp. (FIZ) for up to 35 m cases (of cans) per year (Jones supplies concentrate; National Beverage produces the cans and distributes nationally to retail stores). Agreements with national retail stores including Safeway (SWY), Albertsons, Walmart (WMT), Kroger (KR), Target (TGT), Publix (PUSH), etc to begin carrying Jones products in their stores with cans being the main focus.

This would obviously be great news, and it would lay the ground work for teams to begin training for the 2011 season. This