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Weird week of AFL football. The road team won seven of nine games. The last winless team beat a previously unbeaten. Chicago, Orlando and San Jose all overcame 14-0 deficits against former af2 teams to win. Four winners failed to reach 50 points. The last two ArenaBowl champs are both 1-4. And Rod Windsor's back!

More so than even the NFL, the Arena Football League is all about the quarterback. Saturday night two of the league's greatest gunslingers will dual in south central Texas when the San Antonio Talons (6-3) host the San Jose SaberCats (7-2).

This week’s episode of Top Chef tasked the cheftestants with the ultimate Texas challenge: smoking a brisket. A welcome follow up to last week’s

For the last four weeks the Orlando Predators have been on a collision course with their Southern division rival Jacksonville Sharks. In the last meeting on April 30, the Sharks prevailed with a 76-55 win powered by a dominant second half that saw them score 25 unanswered points...

With just a week to go in the regular season, all eight playoff teams have been decided and Spokane locked up home-field advantage throughout the playoffs. Rod Windsor added another league single-season record to his record-breaking rookie campaign. Also, Dallas named its new head coach at halftime. This and much more awaits in the 17th weekly edition of Breaking it Down.

The disappointment I feel every time I leave an AFL game these days is becoming too much. It has gotten to the point where I start wondering why I wasted my time to go in the first place. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the level of players these teams are putting on the field, not at all.

63, ORLANDO 48 ·         The Sharks never trailed and forced three turnovers, two of which resulted in touchdowns and the third ended the game. ·         Jacksonville swept Orlando in the regular season and has won 13 straight games against American Conference opponents since losing to the Predators in the playoffs last season. ·         The win is the first in the franchises two-year AFL history (lost in first round to Orlando last year). ·         For the...

Jason Lucas Wednesday July 6, 2011 Everything about the Orlando Predators game-plan against the Pittsburgh Power on Friday night was camouflaged by head coach Pat O’Hara. The Preds had been in a downward spiral losing their last three contests to division foes Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, and Georgia; so O’Hara decided to make some bold changes to spark his football team.   Quarterback Nick Hill was benched in favor of Collin Drafts after Hill led the Preds offense to a season-low 34 points in...

Andy Lopusnak Wednesday June 29, 2011 Week 16 featured three games were decided by a single point, while four others were blowouts of at least 20 or more points. Jacksonville won the American Conference regular season crown and its record-breaking 13th straight game, Cleveland handed San Jose the second worst defeat in AFL history, Tommy Grady hit the century mark and Orlandos playoff streak might be in jeopardy. This and much more await you in this weeks Breaking it Down.   SHARKS CLAIM #1 S...