Our newest employee in the Yard is a former Arena Bowl cheerleader, and we welcome her to the Yard in our video preview of Sunday's Arena Bowl, which features the San Jose SaberCats versus the Philadelphia Soul. There's not too much meat in the video. Mostly because we didn't do our homework. So   more...

With the Arena Bowl this weekend with the 2x champions, San Jose Saber Cats vs the the first time Jon Bon Jovi's, Philadelphia Soul. What does the YARD think of this Bowl game and Arena Ball in General?

Now that the Arena Football playoffs are on, we thought it would be fitting to do a list of arena football players with dreads. Here is the list!Keron Henry WR DragonsDamen Wheeler DB AvengersAlonzo Ephraim OL DragonsJason Harmon DB CrushKimani Jones OL GladiatorsJerald Brown DB BrigadeDonovan   more...
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The Arena Football Conference Championship games are set and both are shaping up to have some great story lines. There are a few unlikely squads still in it so we have laid out the match ups and video highlights of how they got there.....
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The Wild Card Round of the Arena Football Playoffs are in the books, and there was some great action all weekend. We run down a quick recap of the weekend, and tell you where you can catch the round two match ups.
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Goddamnit Yardbarker. You're big time now. I was really looking forward to using the 'Philadelphia Soul' tag and lo and behold, nothing.

…Do we have to change our URL?How apropos would it be of Cleveland sports if Bernie Kosar moves a two-win Arena Football League team to Cleveland and it wins a championship? Alanis Morrisette would have to revise Ironic, as it would be simply mind-blowing. First the Cleveland Barons, then Force,   more...
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Gary Horton of ESPN/Scouts Inc. has released his 2008 All-Arena League team, highlighted by former Ohio State Buckeye QB Joe Germaine.
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So as is absolutely no surprise to anyone who reads this, I'm a Philly sports fan. As such, I'm pleased, essentially in a reflexive manner, that the Soul are headed to Arena Bowl XXII.Now, do I follow arena football? Not a lick. Do I even watch arena football? I may pause for a few minutes on my   more...
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Being from New York, nothing would do me more pleasure than watching a team from the good ol' city of brotherly love fall flat on it''s face. But for some reason the Arena Football team aptly name the Philadelphia Soul is one of the more exciting teams to watch. If you don't know what I'm talking   more...

Went over to ESPN to see who won the Gladiators/Soul game. This came up...saywhat.jpgYeah, that's the correct game write-up, Philly won 70-35. But what's with the banner graphic? It's from week 6 of last year. Apparently the Gladiators, still in Vegas mind you, beat the Soul. Thank you WWL for that   more...
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Wenger would be on our side cause hes had lots of stars taken away from him
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Info, links and pics of Angie Reiman.
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The AFL recently released its All-Rookie team, headlined by a couple familiar names, including defensive back Ahmad "Batman" Carroll, who played in the NFL with the Green Bay Packers, now a member of the Orlando Predators and Chad Owens, a former Hawaii standout who played with the Jacksonville   more...
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Info, links and pics of Alexis Kofoed.
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