KENNEWICK -- Houston Lillard likes what he sees so far.

KENNEWICK -- Just because you are a returning veteran for the Tri-Cities Fever, that doesn't mean you are guaranteed a starting position.

KENNEWICK -- Let's call this the storm before the calm for the Tri-Cities Fever.

KENNEWICK -- You know it's getting close to indoor football season when Tri-Cities Fever coach Adam Shackleford packs his stuff up from his Spokane Valley home, gives his wife and two sons kisses goodbye, and moves down to the Tri-Cities.

The Allen Wranglers said wide receiver Terrell Owens is close to agreeing to a deal with the Indoor Football League team. He also would receive an ownership stake of “likely 50 percent,” owner Jon Frankel told ESPN Dallas.

The Tri-Cities Fever added another quarterback to its roster this week, signing Kasey Peters out of Rocky Mountain College in Montana.

Coach Adam Shackleford always has made sure Houston Lillard knows he has a place to play football: in the Tri-Cities.

KENNEWICK -- When training camp for the Tri-Cities Fever opens in February, head coach Adam Shackleford has a good idea who is going to show up.

The Tri-Cities Fever re-signed running back Dennis Kennedy for the upcoming Indoor Football League season.

The Tri-Cities Fever has added some talent to its defense for the upcoming 2012 Indoor Football League season.

Tri-Cities Fever coach Adam Shackleford has an interesting problem.

KENNEWICK -- The Tri-Cities Fever signed wide receiver Kevin Grayson to a contract for the 2012 Indoor Football League season.

KENNEWICK -- The Tri-Cities Fever will get another shot with the 2011 Indoor Football League champion Sioux Falls Storm.

KENNEWICK - Tri-Cities Fever owner Teri Carr heads to Chicago this week for the Indoor Football League meetings.

KENNEWICK -- Adam Shackleford is already getting excited for the 2012 Indoor Football League season.

KENNEWICK -- The Tri-Cities Fever signed former NFL player Stoney Woodson, a cornerback out of South Carolina who was selected in the seventh round of the 2009 draft by the New York Giants.

The Los Angeles Times reported Wednesday that former Tri-Cities Fever quarterback Andy Collins died Monday night in Florida.

SAN DIEGO, Calif. - Wide receiver Giovanni Stanley, who played one game for the Tri-Cities Fever this season and was on the roster for half of it, signed with the San Diego Chargers as a free agent.

KENNEWICK -- Adam Shackleford wants everyone to know -- players, fans, Tri-Cities Fever ownership and especially other Indoor Football League teams -- that he is not going anywhere.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- For almost the entire season, the high-powered Sioux Falls Storm offense has been the center of attention for fans, coaches, players and media.

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. -- The old guns vs. young guns. The wily veterans against the upstarts.

KENNEWICK -- The Tri-Cities Fever heads into South Dakota to take on the Indoor Football League juggernaut Sioux Falls Storm in Saturday's United Bowl (5:05 p.m. kickoff).

Chris Dixon oozes confidence.

KENNEWICK -- The offensive line is the foundation of a team's offense, but because there are more aches and pains than stats, there is little time in the spotlight for the men in the trenches.

KENNEWICK -- Tri-Cities Fever quarterback Houston Lillard and kicker Gary Cismesia each earned Indoor Football League awards this week for their play in last weekend's Intense Conference championship game at Allen, Texas.

KENNEWICK -- Tri-Cities Fever quarterback Houston Lillard admonished coach Adam Shackleford on Monday for even wanting to shave off his playoff beard.

ALLEN, Texas -- It was only fitting that the final contested play of Friday's Intense Conference final between Tri-Cities and Allen was an interception by Fever defensive back Dennis Rogan.

For two consecutive playoff games, the Tri-Cities Fever has dug itself a hole from the outset, only to rally and win in the fourth quarter.

KENNEWICK -- When Tri-Cities Fever coach Adam Shackleford looks at his team's next opponent, the Allen Wranglers -- the Indoor Football League teams meet in Texas at 4:35 p.m. Saturday for the Intense Conference championship -- he sees a high-performing squad.

KENNEWICK -- The commissioner of the Indoor Football League sees the final four teams in the playoffs like this: three no-brainers and one big surprise.

KENNEWICK -- Adam Shackleford and Chris MacKeown are in dutch with their wives this week.

Tri-Cities Fever quarterback Houston Lillard said Monday night that neither he nor his teammates want the 2011 Indoor Football League season to end.

LOVELAND, Colo. -- When two teams that have played each other twice during the season have to meet for a third time, there shouldn't be too much new to expect.

West Texas coach Chris Williams was worried about his team getting into an offensive shootout with the high-scoring Tri-Cities Fever.

No matter what happens Monday night, this season for the Tri-Cities Fever has already been plenty successful.

KENNEWICK -- The Tri-Cities Fever finished the Indoor Football League regular season Sunday night with a flourish, routing the Seattle Timberwolves 86-59 on the road to complete the season with a 10-4 record.

The only thing better than having one Dennis, is having two of them.

KENT -- For a regular-season ending game that has no meaning in the Pacific Division standings, today's Tri-Cities Fever at Seattle Timberwolves game turns out to be pretty important to both teams.

KENNEWICK -- Carl Barnett's physical dimensions are listed on the Tri-Cities Fever roster at 6-foot-2, 320 pounds.

KENNEWICK -- The Indoor Football League playoffs have started a week early for the Tri-Cities Fever.

The Tri-Cities Fever survived a furious 30-point fourth-quarter rally by the Wenatchee Valley Venom to win an Indoor Football League game at the Wenatchee Town Toyota Center by a 58-52 score.

KENNEWICK -- Tri-Cities Fever coach Adam Shackleford was blunt with his team when practice began this week.

KENNEWICK -- With two weeks remaining in the Indoor Football League's regular season, we know which teams have qualified for the postseason in the Intense Conference portion of the playoffs.

KENNEWICK -- The Fairbanks Grizzlies have spent the last three months of the Indoor Football League season trying to chase down the Tri-Cities Fever.

KENNEWICK -- Tonight's Fairbanks Grizzlies-Tri-Cities Fever showdown in the Toyota Center is kind of like a playoff game.

KENNEWICK -- The Tri-Cities Fever and the Fairbanks Grizzlies both lost games this past weekend.

LOVELAND, Colo. -- For the second time this season, the outcome of a game between the Colorado Ice and the Tri-Cities Fever came down to a final play.

KENNEWICK -- The story goes that Gary Cismesia was awestruck earlier this season while standing outside his hotel in Omaha, Neb., on March 24.

KENNEWICK -- Coach Collins Sanders said that the last time his Colorado Ice played the Tri-Cities Fever, it was an instant classic.

KENNEWICK -- Tri-Cities Fever defensive back Lionell Singleton was named the Indoor Football League's defensive player of the week after Tri-Cities defeated Wenatchee Valley 80-10 on Saturday.