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How would it feel if you went to work every day with not much expectations? You show up and put well over 100% to prepare for a big meeting or presentation, and yet every time there is always something that goes wrong? Your laptop suddenly dies, or you end up with food poisoning, or your car breaks down and you end up hours late.

By the end of Saturday night's Portland Thunder and Los Angeles KISS contest, all LA quarterback Aaron Garcia could say was that either the ball was getting knocked down or he was.

The Portland Thunder held thier first live scrimmage in team history on Saturday, May 1st at their Tualatin practice facility in front of crowd of media and hundreds of season-ticket holders. The Rose City's newest professional sports franchise did not fail to put on a show.

Training camp. Those halcyon days when all the pass routes are fearless and crisp, and the running backs burst through every hole for a twenty yard gain. Defensive linemen get to the quarterback with fearsome regularity, and passers stand tall in the pocket reading coverages and picking out receivers flawlessly with no notice of the rush whatsoever.

The off-season for the Portland Thunder has been a bit turbulent shall we say? It started with the firing of popular first year head coach Matthew Sauk and has became more and more convoluted with every passing week.

The term doubleheader usually applies to a day of baseball filled with two games at the ballpark in the same day. But Saturday the Arena Football League had a doubleheader of their own with two games about sixty miles from each other in Atlantic City and Philadelphia.