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Jason Boltus and Greg Carr and Arness Ikner and Khalil Paden don't really have the name recognition of typical Orlando Predators players. CFE Arena doesn't look anything like the Jungle which the Orlando Predators used to play in. Average crowds of around 5,000 fans are nothing like the 15,000+ old school Orlando Predators crowds. Rob Keefe doesn't look anything like an Orlando Predators coach. But dammit, even this skeptic has to admit that Friday night's 69-63 win over the ...

The Arena Football League is ready for the stretch run to the end of the season. Everyone had last week off over the Fourth of July holiday so all twelve teams should be rested and ready to rock over the final five weeks in the season.

Orlando moves up a spot after defeating Cleveland while the Gladiators fall to No. 5 after Week 10 Arena Football League action. San Jose, Philadelphia, and Arizona remain the top three teams after notching wins against lower ranked teams.

Another week, another slow start. The Spokane Shock, after rattling off five wins to start the season, have hit a slump. They dropped their last contest to the Utah Blaze by a score of 52-48. It marked their second loss in a row, this time to a division opponent. Similar to their loss against Tampa Bay, Spokane nearly dug themselves out of a first half hole, but couldn't manage to finish the job.

ORLANDO -- They don't call it the War on I-4 for no reason. Saturday night might have marked the first time that the UFC made its way to Orlando, but perhaps the best fight of the night in the City Beautiful came out of the Orlando Predators. The Preds had to fight through just about everything that an AFL team could have to get through in a record-breaking 77-65 win over the Tampa Bay Storm.

The Jacksonville Sharks might not have QB Aaron Garcia an longer, but they are doing something that Garcia isn't this year: Playing in a conference championship game. It certainly was a tale of two games though, as the Sharks nearly blew the biggest lead in a playoff game in AFL history against the Georgia Force, who should be commended for erasing a 48-21 deficit in the second half. Still, in the end, a 51-yard field goal by K Marco Capozzoli proved to be the difference in a 58-56 triumph....

After twenty grueling weeks and 156 games, the longest AFL regular season has come to close. Lucky for you, this final regular season edition of Breaking it Down is perhaps the longest single article about the AFL in league history. Nearly 7,000 words of wisdom chock full of nuggets, morsels and all sorts of chewy and yummy AFL notes that'll fill you up while you're not watching live AFL playoff games in your living room this week.

On Friday night, bombshells swept across the Arena Football League in the form of major announcements made by Craig Spencer of the Philadelphia Soul.

The Cleveland Gladiators were the #2 ranked team in the American Conference this season, but on Sunday (July 31) they came up a little short to the visiting Georgia Force in a 50-41 playoff loss. The game was not without drama, however, and the final outcome was in questions until the final seconds of the game.

When I saw that the Cleveland Gladiators were playing a home game on Monday night (May 16) against the Portland Steel, I assumed I would be able to watch it on TV somewhere.