Utah Blaze News Today

Coming into the 2012 Arena Football League playoffs, QB Mark Grieb was one of the most accomplished players in league history in the postseason. He has three rings to his credit and four trips to the ArenaBowl, and he has the second most yards for a quarterback in playoff history. However, he might have seen his illustrious career come to a close at the hands of his arch rivals on Saturday night, as the San Jose SaberCats dropped to the Arizona Rattlers 51-48.

On Monday night, the Orlando Predators announced that they were parting ways with Head Coach Pat O'Hara. Multiple sources have confirmed to ArenaFan that O'Hara has accepted a job with the New Orleans VooDoo that should be announced in the coming week.

Arena Football League fans who are knowledgeable of the game know that this league is a heck of a lot better off when both the Tampa Bay Storm and the Orlando Predators are both good. The truth of the matter? The last time that both of these teams were good at the same time was 2010, but even then, those teams were seeded third and fourth in the playoffs that season, and the Preds only just squeaked into the playoffs at 8-8.

The last AFL regular season game of the year could easily be a preview of ArenaBowl XXV when the Philadelphia Soul hosts the Utah Blaze this Sunday evening. Not only does this game feature the top two scoring teams in the league, it also has the top two quarterbacks in each conference in Utah's Tommy Grady and Philadelphia's Dan Raudabaugh.

All season long, Head Coach Kevin Guy has been saying to his Arizona Rattlers that his guys aren't playing for hats and jerseys this year. They're playing for a championship. Now, the Rattlers have a chance to go to back-to-back ArenaBowls if they can beat the Utah Blaze on Saturday night.

The news out of Orlando that former Orlando Predators head coach and quarterback Jay Gruden was going to become the second head coach in the history of the UFLs Florida Tuskers may be a sign that one of the old AFLs biggest icons is set to really become a tremendous name in the football coaching world.

It's not that often that you'll see me referencing Drake in any of my articles, but in the case of the Cleveland Gladiators, I feel as though I can safely say that they started from the bottom, now they're here in ArenaBowl XXVII.

The Utah Blaze are a wreck, and something needs to be done and done soon or the 2010 season will be the first Blaze will miss the postseason in franchise history.

Hunkie Cooper is a valuable commodity for the San Diego State Aztecs football team. The future is bright for the Aztecs and it takes coaches like Hunkie Cooper

The Blaze are returning to form in many ways this season. After a one year hiatus, the Arena Football League came back in 2010, and while there was a team that represented Utah, they never truly felt like the Utah Blaze I had come to know. However this year, things look different.