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The Spokane Shock held on after the loss of yet another quarterback due to injury to topple yet another division-leading team, beating the Chicago Rush 63-60. The Shock have now had more players take snaps from center (seven) this season than wins (six)....

I spoke with Arena Football League Commissioner Randall Boe to ask a few questions on what's next for the league.

It was a rough Saturday night for the Arena Football League last weekend. Two plays that happened thousands of miles apart showed that the AFL still has a long, long way to go.

It took QB Aaron Garcia 201 games in the Arena Football League before finally getting here to the ArenaBowl in 2011. The Jacksonville Sharks might have had to travel across the country with virtually no practice, but their Head Coach Les Moss has more experience dealing with ArenaBowls than all of the players in the game combined.

The Portland Thunder are set to begin their first season in the Arena Football League in March, and the man who is going to be leading the charge is Matthew Sauk, a former AFL quarterback and a long-time assistant coach in this game.

The Arena Football League is about to have its seventh commissioner. Sources have confirmed to ArenaFan that Scott Butera will be named the next commissioner of the AFL.

There is a point that all good things come to an end, and one of the best things that the Arena Football League ever had going for it came to an unavoidable end on Tuesday afternoon. For the first time since the inception of the team, the San Jose SaberCats won't be playing in the same division with the Arizona Rattlers.

The Arena Football League is about to kickoff its 30th Anniversary season, a feat that not very many professional sports leagues can claim to have reached. The turf is about to be rolled out and laid down. The infamous rebound nets and uprights will be constructed and hung from the arena rafters to make this niche sport the exciting brand of competition that it is. But how many people really know that the AFL season kicks off today? And to be honest, who should really care?

For the first time throughout the entire 2015 Arena Football League season, the San Jose SaberCats actually appeared vulnerable against the defending American Conference Champion Cleveland Gladiators on Saturday night, trailing 49-35 in the second quarter and 52-42 at halftime.

A rival is defined as one who attempts to equal or surpass another in a particular respect. A rivalry is the act of competing against a rival. On Friday night, the Chicago Rush hosted the San Jose Sabercats at the Allstate Arena in what many fans of this fine sport would define as a rivalry.