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TAMPA -- When Damian Harrell retired from the Arena Football League in 2011, he held the record for the most all-time receiving yards by a country mile, nearly 2,000 beyond Chris Jackson and Barry Wagner. His record stood for over six years. On Saturday night, Tampa Bay Storm WR TT Toliver etched his name in League history by breaking Harrell's record of 15,134 receiving yards for his career.

It isn't a big secret that the last few years have been challenging for the Arena Football League and for all of us at the staff of ArenaFan. However, it's still our league, and we should continue to embrace that.

While the corporate part of the Arena Football League went bust and its players, coaches and fans got sent packing, we can now look ahead to a tomorrow that will come with Arena Football in it.

For a remarkable 10th time in franchise history, the Tampa Bay Storm will be playing for an Arena Football League Championship. With a 73-59 win over the Cleveland Gladiators on Monday night at Amalie Arena in a playoff semi-final matchup, the Storm will move on to face the Philadelphia Soul in ArenaBowl XXX on August 26th.

It didn't require much head scratching to figure out why the Arena Football standings look the way they do Saturday night. There's a reason the Cleveland Gladiators (11-1) are the only one-loss squad in the American Conference. There's a reason the New Orleans VooDoo (2-10) became the first team in the American Conference to hit double-digit losses Saturday night. That all became clear in Cleveland's 62-46 victory over New Orleans Saturday, thus maintaining its game-and-a-hal...

CLEVELAND -- Apparently, it takes a Predator to beat a Predator. Dominic Jones, who was playing with the Orlando Predators last year, helped send his former mates to their graves on Sunday afternoon, as the Cleveland Gladiators won the American Conference Championship Game 56-46.

On Tuesday night, fellow AFL Tonight-er, Tim Capper and I sat down and had a tremendous interview with the Vice President of the AFL Players Union (AFLPU), Steve Watson. It was the first time that we have heard from a member of the PU on the record about the possibility of a strike, and after that 25 minutes, it became clear to this writer that the league and its players are at an impasse that probably isn't going to be fixed in a matter of the next 48 hours.

Tonight in San Jose, arguably the the best team from each conference will battle in what could very well be a preview of ArenaBowl XXII. It will feature the defending ArenaBowl champion (San Jose) and the best regular season team in the league since 2006 (Dallas).

May 12, 1995: A day that will forever be marked as the originating spark of the most intense, heated war in the AFL. Both teams are currently known for being two of the richest, most successful franchises in league history, and that is perhaps the ultimate recipe to a furious, yet incredible, rivalry.

ArenaFan.com's Adam Markowitz and Jeff Sims tackle the topic of the Arizona Rattlers and whether it is beneficial to the Arena Football League if they put together a perfect regular season.