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ArenaFan has learned that the Arena Football League and the AFL Players Union have come to a resolution on a new collective agreement.

Five of the eight games in Week Twelve featured the road team winning. One team has clinched its division, while two teams with better records are still not in the playoffs. Arizona continues to be the only American Conference team with a winning record against the National Conference. This and other tidbits will be discussed in the dirty dozen edition of

The Philadelphia Soul jumped out to a 69-33 series lead with a win in their first of two postseason games against the Washington Valor. Game two of the playoff series will take place in Philadelphia next Sunday, with the Soul ahead by a thirty-six-point cushion.

TAMPA BAY -- The Portland Thunder came to the Sunshine State two weeks ago without a win to their name. They scored their second upset in as many weeks as double-digit underdogs on Saturday night at the Tampa Bay Times Forum, as they beat the Tampa Bay Storm 61-42.

Jacksonville Sharks quarterback Aaron Garcia completed a 10 yard pass to Jeron Harvey as time expired to win ArenaBowl XXIV 73-70 in front of 14,320 atthe U.S. Airways Center in Phoenix, Arizona. The 143 total points is the most ever in ArenaBowl history.

It has been nearly a year since the LA KISS even came close to tasting victory. Since that time, they have gone through hundreds of players, a complete change of staff, and countless days of frustration wondering where each mistake had gone wrong.

HONOLULU - It's been a project over a year in the making, but 38 players from the Arena Football League and from Hawaii are set to put toe to leather at Blaisdell Arena, where the East and West will duke it out with one another at 4:00 p.m. HST.

If you have been an LA KISS fan since the beginning, let alone a die hard arena football fan, teams would look at their schedule and sense that a win against the KISS would be almost a guarantee.

The Spokane Shock are playoff bound. Following a much needed bye week, the Shock defeated the Tampa Bay Storm by a score of 63-49. Spokane showed some rust early in the game, but managed to rebound in the second half to topple the American Conference foe. They improve to 11-4 and maintain a second place spot in the division.

The free agency frenzy has officially begun in the 2012 Arena Football League offseason, and the biggest name to change teams was announced on Thursday morning. Free agent QB Aaron Garcia announced on his Facebook page that he was going to be signing with the San Jose SaberCats. Multiple sources have confirmed to ArenaFan that that indeed is the case, bringing the California native back to his home to presumably finish out his AFL career.