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This week the Arena Football League and FilmOn announced their international broadcast partnership for streaming of league action outside of the United States. This is an agreement that has been a long time coming for fans wanting to watch arena league action, but dont currently reside in the US.

For the first time since 2010, the Tampa Bay Storm will host a playoff game on their own turf. Escaping with a thrilling 55-51 win over the Washington Valor on Saturday night at Amalie Arena, the Storm improved to 8-2 and picked up their fourth straight victory over Washington to wrap-up the season sweep.

Today, we bid farewell to arguably the most mismanaged, underappreciated, yet tremendously fascinating franchises in the history of the Arena Football League. Though the handwriting has been on the wall for weeks, the Pittsburgh Power have officially been closed for business, becoming the third team from the 2014 season to have left the league for 2015.

As if the Arena Football League needed another blow to its fan base, the most recent blow came from Costa Rice, of all places. Bookmaker Sportsbook was the authority for Arena Football League betting over the course of the last three seasons, posting betting lines on the day of the game. However, as of Week 4 of this season, Bookmaker has told ArenaFan.com that it is pulling out of the market and will no longer offer betting on Arena Football.

Is there any record T.T. Toliver won't have at the end of his illustrious career? Just a week after he broke the record for the most receiving yards in AFL history, Toliver has added more accolades to his career resume. With his fifth catch of the game on Saturday night, the Tampa Bay Storm man became the all-time leader in receptions in AFL history.

The Washington Valor (0-2) lost 67-51 on Saturday night inside of Wells Fargo Center to the Philadelphia Soul (3-0) in front of 10,164 fans. Washington will continue their early season road trip as they head to Albany, New York next weekend to take on the Empire inside of Times Union Center.

For a change, all the talk around the Arena Football world has been about the LA KISS. Before it became a story of how much are they going to lose this week. It became the usual story line for a team that had nothing to work with, because quite frankly it was an entirely different roster every time the team would step out on the field.

After losses to the Tampa Bay Storm (8-3) and the Iowa Barnstormers (5-6), the Utah Blaze have now lost 8 of their 11 games this season by over 20 points.

Just like any sport, many personnel handle their teams like a business. Every week, they make so many decisions that affect so many lives, whether it would be trading someone to a new city, letting someone go, or placing them on reassignment.

How do you avenge your only home loss of the season? Win big in the first game of your home-and-home aggregate playoff series.