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Arena Football One Website Launched (OurSports Central | Nov 19/09)
- Arena Football 1 (AF1) TULSA - The League Office of Arena Football One announced today that its website www.arenafootballone.com was successfully launched.The website, although still under construction, will...

Jacksonville Sharks Arena Football Here (Jaxnewsonline.com | Nov 18/09)
News4Jax.com'While the football will be fantastic, fans are going to love the entertainment we bring to them. It is a hybrid of a KISS concert and football game rolled ...and more...

Arena Football One Accepted as "Stalking Horse" Bidder for AFL Assets (OurSports Central | Nov 18/09)
- Arena Football 1 (AF1) TULSA - The League Office of Arena Football One announced today that its offer to purchase the assets of the Arena Football League (AFL) from the Trustee...

Arena football team to be Sharks (Biz Journals | Nov 18/09)
The new arena football team in town will be called the Jacksonville Sharks and will play at Veterans Memorial Arena. Managing partner Jeff Bouchy and partners Steve Curran and Larry Payne unveiled the...

Jacksonville arena football team hoping for a bang (Florida Times-Union | Nov 18/09)
coach, is expected to be named the head coach of the Jacksonville team, the newest member of the Arena Football 1 League. Today’s ceremony is at Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena, where the team will play its home games. Jacksonville hasn’t had a...

NewFins showing for new Jacksonville arena football team (Florida Times-Union | Nov 18/09)
Arena football is returning to Jacksonville hoping to be bigger, louder and more explosive than before. Jacksonville Sports Group managing partner Jeff Bouchy and partners Steve Curran and Larry Payne plan...

Arena football: Green Bay Blizzard to name new coach tonight (Green Bay Press-Gazette | Nov 17/09)
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Arena football (Huntsville Times | Nov 16/09)
Huntsville Times Ar Arena football Vipers to hold tryouts Dec. 12 The Tennessee Valley Vipers will hold a free-agent tryout Saturday, Dec. 12, to launch the inaugural Arena Football 1 season. Registration will begin...

Arena football team has season canceled (Toledoblade.com | Nov 12/09)
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Arena Football One Announces AFL Asset Bid (OurSports Central | Nov 11/09)
- Arena Football 1 (AF1) TULSA - The League Office of Arena Football One announced today that it has submitted a formal offer to purchase the assets of the Arena Football League...

New Arena Football Team: Yakima Valley Warriors (KNDO KNDU | Nov 11/09)
YAKIMA, Wash. -- There will be arena football in the Yakima Sun Dome. Tuesday, it became official. The Yakima Valley Warriors will battle it out at the Dome in 2010. Tuesday, team leaders unveiled the team logo...

Arena Football Returns to Yakima (KIMA TV | Nov 11/09)
YAKIMA -- It's been nearly a decade, but arena football is about to make a comeback in the Yakima area. The Yakima Valley Warriors are coming to town, and that means football-hungry fans will soon be flocking to Yakima...

Arena Football in Yakima (KNDO KNDU | Nov 10/09)
Good news, Yakima football fans....

Former Lions tackle Kelly Butler assigned to Arena Football 1's Yard Dawgz (Michigan Live | Nov 09/09)
Butler is being reunited with Yard Dawgz coach Sparky McEwen of Grand Rapids in arena football...

Ex-Rampage DB/kick returner Chris Martin joins Arena Football 1's Shock (Michigan Live | Nov 08/09)
Martin led the Arena Football League with six kickoff returns for touchdowns with the Rampage in 2008...

Chicago Sky Moving To Allstate Arena (Journal & Topics Newspapers | Nov 07/09)
Division I college basketball regional tournaments, and occasional pro wrestling events. The Chicago Rush of the now defunct Arena Football League also played its home games at Allstate for several seasons. The Allstate Arena has a seating capacity ...

A final irony as hockey arena is demolished (Bradenton Herald | Nov 07/09)
40 of the 110 events scheduled for the first year were hockey. The rest were events such as arena football, the circus, Disney on Ice, the National Basketball Association developmental league and others. SMR finally wrested the arena away from...

Cincinnati's Fifth Third will take a hit from Arena Football Ch. 11 (Cincinnati Business Journal | Nov 06/09)
The s bankruptcy is going to hit s financial statement. The downtown-based bank is the largest creditor of the . Its owed $7.7 million through a credit facility it had with the indoor football league. Three creditors of the Chicago-based league file...

Businessman sees arena football succeeding in Jacksonville: Jacksonville will host entry for new league's spring-summer season (Individual.com | Nov 05/09)
Jeff Bouchy wants to bring arena football back to the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. Gone since the Jacksonville Tomcats folded in 2002, arena football is played like regular football, albeit in a claustrophobic setting. The Tomcats...

Businessman sees arena football succeeding in Jacksonville (Individual.com | Nov 05/09)
Jeff Bouchy wants to bring arena football back to the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena. Gone since the Jacksonville Tomcats folded in 2002, arena football is played like regular football, albeit in a claustrophobic setting. The Tomcats...

Downtown Arena Plan Still Lacks Team To Play (FOX 5 KVVU-TV | Nov 04/09)
Bay Lightning and Major League Baseball's Rays, it sat dormant for a year before finally luring an Arena Football Franchise in 1991. The last thing Goodman wants is another vacant building downtown, especially one that seats 20,000 people. The Light...

Arena Football League assets (even trophy) set to hit the auction block (USA Today | Nov 03/09)
always wanted to hoist a pro sports trophy? Now's your chance as the assets of the collapsed Arena Football League are about to be put on the auction block. SportsBusiness Journal reports that everything from the league's championship trophy to its ...

NH arena football team shutting down (Boston Globe | Oct 30/09)
The Manchester Wolves arena football team says it's shutting down. General Manager Stephanie Bike said Friday the franchise will not join the new Arena Football 1 League for the 2010 season...

Arena Football One Teams To Sign Coaches And Players (OurSports Central | Oct 30/09)
- Arena Football 1 (AF1) TULSA - The League Office of Arena Football One announced today that member teams will commence thesigning of both Head Coaches and players beginning November 1, 2009...

Arena Football Coming To Tyler (Tyler Morning Telegraph | Oct 28/09)
way, Viser came full circle Tuesday morning when he and partner James Germany announced their plan to bring arena football to East Texas. The Texas Rose -- of the Independent Indoor Football Alliance -- are in negotiations to make the Oil Palace the...

Arena Football Player Walks for Aids (El Paso News | Oct 25/09)
EL PASO--- For 17 years, borderland residents have hit the streets for the annual Aids Walk. Today, one arena football star was among them. He told us his personal experience in dealing with a father who carried the disease. NewsChannel 9's Adrienne...

Arena Dates Available (American Chronicle | Oct 21/09)
have sat empty.' The bigger scheduling problem will come with the Tulsa Talons, Goldman said. When the new Arena Football 1 kicks off in 2010, the league will look to play many of its summer games on Saturday. 'It's going to be a juggling process,'...

Arena football: Royle, Blizzard iron out details (Green Bay Press-Gazette | Oct 18/09)
Blizzard by this morning, all but cementing a deal agreed to in principle Tuesday night between the teetering arena football franchise and owner of the Green Bay Bullfrogs baseball team. Royle met on Thursday with Bob Landsee, the Blizzard's former ...

Arena football: New Blizzard owner Royle undecided on league for 2010 (Green Bay Press-Gazette | Oct 18/09)
Jeff Royle signed a letter of intent Friday morning to purchase the Green Bay Blizzard arena football team from the team's previous ownership group, which includes former Green Bay Packers linebacker Brian Noble and the Blizzard's former coach, Bob...

Arena to celebrate its 10th anniversary (Standard Speaker | Oct 16/09)
with Neil Diamond performing for its first concert. Its primary tenants are the Penguins and the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Pioneers arena football team. The arena has more than 8,000 seats and a capacity of nearly 10,000 for concerts. The company SMG ma...