Friday April 12, 2013
TAMPA BAY – If you want to know why the Arena Football League playoffs are going to be a joke this season, there s no need to do more than look at the standings in the American Conference. The Jacksonville Sharks are 4-0. The rest of the conference combined is 4-13. The Tampa Bay Storm and the New Orleans VooDoo were the most recent teams to embarrass themselves on Friday night. Tampa Bay was beaten by the shorthanded San Antonio Talons 52-36, while the VooDoo were beaten 76-30 in the most embarrassing game of the season to date.
The Tampa Bay loss probably doesn t lump it into the Oh my goodness, these teams are so damn awful group quite yet. Of course, this writer is really questioning just how motivated this team was to play in a game against the 0-2 Talons, who were playing with a quarterback in Nick Hill that had only showed up in the Lone Star State 48 hours before this one kicked off. The fact that the Storm lost both QB Adrian McPherson (apparent s
Jeff Sims
Wednesday August 11, 2010
Big players make big plays in big games. In Saturday night’s AFL first round playoff game against the Chicago Rush, Damian Harrell reminded everyone of why he is one of the best to ever play this game.
Replicating performances that we have seen from him many times before when he played for the Colorado Crush, Harrell caught nine passes for 90 yards for the Milwaukee Iron as they defeated the Rush 64 -54, thus ending the season for Chicago. After fellow wide receiver Antoine Burns scored the first four touchdowns for the Iron, Harrell went on a tear and scored the final five touchdowns for Milwaukee. He took control of the game by making some very difficult catches.
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Officials with Waste Corporation of America (WCA) announced Tuesday night they are suspending all residential services until Monday due to the forecast of another winter storm and hazardous road conditions.
Municipal Account Manager Jeff Simms says WCA has been unable to service their residents due to the ice event last week and Monday’s snow event. He adds they made the decision to suspend residential services until Monday because of another winter weather event with measurable snow accumulation predicted for our area as well as for the safety of their customers and employees. He adds they do not take this action lightly and understand the inconvenience involved.