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The players for the Chicago Rush went to sleep on Friday night not really knowing what would lie ahead the following evening. They were scheduled to play their home opener against the Tampa Bay Storm on Saturday night.

July 27, 2008... Exactly three years ago to the day. The San Jose SaberCats took on the Philadelphia Soul in the biggest debacle of an Arena Football League game ever at New Orleans Arena in the Big Easy. It was a joke of a game, and it was a joke that Commissioner Baker decided that he was going to resign his post during ArenaBowl week. Glad to see that things have only become more and more of a joke since that point.

Huey Whitaker was a jack of all trades in the 47-42 victory against the San Antonio Talons Saturday night in the Alamo Dome. The SaberCats held the lead until the third quarter when the battle intensified and the lead began to exchange frequently. It came down to strategic ball and clock management in this fast paced Arena style ball game.

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It's clear that part of the reason that Tiger Jones plays here in the Arena Football League is the thrill of the fight, and if the Philadelphia Soul are going to beat the Arizona Rattlers on Saturday in ArenaBowl XXVI, they are definitely going to have to rise up to the challenge of their rivals. Rocky Balboa might have had the eye of the tiger in all of the Rocky films, but right now in the City of Brotherly Love, the tiger that will be in the midst of the fight on Saturday happens to be o...

Congratulations, Cleveland, you pulled off the most complete game of the season. Unfortunately, it was by having the worst offensive and defensive performances in the league in the same game. In fact, the performance was so awful, it earned the Gladiators the basement position in the AFL, something which it seemed the VooDoo were destined to control for the rest of the season after their debacle against Iowa.

The Philadelphia Soul showed their championship mettle on Saturday night as they came back from a 12-point deficit in the final minute to shock the Albany Empire, 75-74, in front of 9,534 at the Times Union Center.

Pat O'Hara and 24 members of the New Orleans VooDoo stood solemnly on a warm day in May in the Crescent City. They were mourning over a loss that shook the team to its core, a loss the likes that no team should have to sustain. As those men gathered together near the building they call the Graveyard for a funeral, it was clear that the atmosphere was somber.

All of us at ArenaFan.com are saddened to report that one of the great coaches in the history of the Arena Football League, Perry Moss has passed away from the complications of a neurological disease. Moss died on Thursday in Florida at the age of 88.

When the Arizona Rattlers take the field this Friday night at Moda Center against the Portland Steel, the five-time AFL champs will have more questions coming out of training camp than they have faced over their past half-decade of dominance.