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Time and time again, I've preached how important it is to manage the clock properly at the end of the first half. All too often, games are decided by that last possession before the interval, and we saw that on Saturday night when the LA KISS beat the Jacksonville Sharks 64-39 in a game which was nowhere near as lopsided as that final score suggests.

We didn't know it at the time, but the 2012 Arizona Rattlers were the start of one of the greatest dynasties in the history of the Arena Football League. Maurice Purify was a huge part of that success, and he went on to help the team win three straight championships. On Monday though, Purify was placed on reassignment, ending his time with the three-time defending champions.

Week 17 in the 2013 Arena Football League season will probably forever be known as the week of whitewashes. The seven games featured a total margin of victory of 223 points, an average of 31.9 points per game, making it the most lopsided week in the 26-year history of the AFL.

ArenaBowl XXIV featured a title-game record eleven lead changes, including four in the final 52 seconds. The last was the most dramatic and capped the greatest ArenaBowl in league history when Jacksonville QB Aaron Garcia hit receiver Jeron Harvey on a ten-yard strike as time expired that gave the Sharks an ArenaBowl title in just the team's second season. As usual, Breaking it Down will provide more insight into this great game than anywhere in the indoor football universe. Enjoy!

For months and months, all the Arena Football League had was nightmare after nightmare. Las Vegas. New Orleans. Spokane. San Jose. No expansion teams. Rumors of cheating. But the vision was always clear to Scott Butera. He saw sponsors. He saw television deals. He saw new teams. He saw a new country. He saw it all. And now we see it, too. And it's awesome.

Reggie Smith 1, Arizona Rattlers 0. In an all-time classic battle between the Arena Football League's two most bitter rivals Saturday night, officials tainted the game's ending by gifting the San Jose SaberCats a 70-67

Head Coach Doug Plank of the Orlando Predators onside kicked six times on Friday night. The San Jose SaberCats recovered all six of the onside kicks, but the fact that Plank had the fortitude to try all those onsiders changed the game and really was the only reason the Predators were even remotely in a game that turned out to be a 65-62 defeat at HP Pavilion.

The Milwaukee Mustangs lost to the Chicago Rush 41-49 in a well fought battle. The Mustangs had a very good showing but were hampered by 12 penalties combined with poor special teams effort which proved to be a too big of a burden to bear.

About the only thing that Grant Gregory can say positive in this one is that he at least didn't have the worst stats for any quarterback in this game against the Jacksonville Sharks. Of course, the bad news is that Omar Jacobs only came in after the game was already out of hand, and he only went 0-for-1 on the night.

Franklin American Mortgage Company is sponsoring the Darryl Hammond Benefit Scramble golf tournament being held at the Harpeth Hills Golf Course in Nashville, TN on Monday April 27th.