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Tonight in Phoenix the defending ArenaBowl Champions took down the San Jose SaberCats (2-1) in the snake pit with a final score of 73-47. The ball hawks on the Rattlers (3-0) secondary had three interceptions on Garcia and two were returned for touchdowns in the first half.

The Philadelphia Soul signed wide receiver Tyrone Goard to a contract on Friday. Goard is coming off a very strong rookie season with the Pittsburgh Power.

With his 16-yard catch in the third quarter, Tiger Jones became the first man in the history of the Arena Football League to log at least 2,000 receiving yards in a third season in his career. Jones, the leading receiver for the Philadelphia Soul, entered this Week 18 game against the San Jose SaberCats with 1,968 yards and 33 TDs.

Taking an unbiased look at the postseason awards and who should receive each category, here is the

BEIJING - A little boy nicknamed Nono roamed the sidelines at the final practice for the East and West All-Stars prior to Sunday's All-Star Game here in Beijing. That little Chinese boy is only four years old, and he had never put his hands on a football before today. Once the pigskin hit little Nono's hands though, he was hooked.

Despite reassurances from Georgia Force management throughout the season that the Arena Football League team would return for the 2013 season, questions about the possibility of the club ceasing operations began even before the Force fell to the Jacksonville Sharks on a final play, 51-yard field goal in the first round of the post season.

While most families spent Sunday carving their Easter hams, Erik Meyer spent his carving up the Chicago Rush defense. The Spokane Shock shellacked the Chicago Rush by a score 76-51 in their week two matchup. Similar to the impressive win in Cleveland last week, the offense was firing on all cylinders and the defense/special teams made enough big plays to carry the day.

Say your city has been deprived of a sports team for years. Say you have been craving something that nearly every major market has around the nation. It isn't what you had expected, but it is something to hold you over in the mean time.

The 25th AFL season saw numerous records broken thanks largely to the second year of the 18-game schedule. However, there were not as many records broken in 2012 as there were last season. Nonetheless, there were some major records shattered this season with Tommy Grady leading the way with at least eleven new single-season records.

Many people follow the National Football League, where hundreds of athletes that participated in BCS-type schools represent nearly the entire pool of players. Big names are usually followed even from their freshman year and are covered deeply by quite a number of large-market medias. In other words, if a student-athlete played at Alabama or USC and has high end numbers, then chances are, he will find a way to earn the spotlight one way or another on the biggest stage.