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The National Conference's four playoff teams are set thanks to the San Antonio Talons defeating the Chicago Rush Sunday. Utah and Spokane are the final teams in from the National. Seedings haven't finalized, but the Talons are the Central Division champs.

The Arena Football League lost a true legend of the game and a fantastic man on Thursday, December 5th, as Tim Marcum passed away at the age of 68. Countless numbers were touched by what Coach Marcum did both on the field and off the field, and here at ArenaFan, we reached out to as many as we could find to help us all remember the life and times of the greatest coach that ever there ever was in the AFL.

The end of the world was supposed to happen right at kickoff of this Saturday's game between the Utah Blaze and the San Jose SaberCats, but for most Blaze fans, the end of the world was on Thursday when it was announced that Aaron Boone and Aaron LeSue were going to be put on the injured reserve list for the next game against San Jose.

For the 2014 Arizona Rattlers, there's no place like home. Two weeks ago, the team completed its first-ever 9-0 campaign at the US Airways Center and now as they prepare for this Sunday's first-round playoff matchup against the Portland Thunder (5-13), the favored Rattlers (15-3) are pleased to be back in the Snake Pit.

The team once 0-9 is extremely close to a playoff berth, while another that started 6-2 might be out soon. Seven of the eight winning teams this past weekend scored over 60 points and all told all eight averaged almost 69 points per game with Grand Rapids leading the way with 84. Week 15 was a sweeping success for Tampa Bay and Philadelphia. These and much more will be featured in the fifteenth edition of

This week, Arizona Rattlers Head Coach Kevin Guy is back in the ArenaBowl for the third straight season and is attempting to be just the second head coach to win back-to-back titles, joining AFL Hall of Famer Tim Marcum (1987-89 and 1995-96).

At some point in the late-90s, the term

An Open Letter to Predators Ownership: When you bought the Orlando Predators, we, the fans, couldn't have been happier that you rescued our franchise from the doldrums of league ownership and potential financial ruin.

Not this time, nope. If I am being selfish, I mourn the departure of a fantastic defensive lineman to the NFL just at the time the Portland Thunder needed all their high-octane weapons to stop the three-time champion Arizona Rattlers. Instead, I am just happy for a good football player and a good guy.

One area that the Chicago Rush was bragging about all throughout their training camp was their offensive line. Sometimes it is funny in this sport how one game can change the outlook of things very quickly. In their victory over the Milwaukee Mustangs, 49-41 on Monday night, the Rush suffered two key injuries on that solid offensive line.