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Pro Frisbee League Begins 2024 Season

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The newly rebranded Ultimate Frisbee Association (UFA) - formerly known as the American Ultimate Disc League (AUDL) - prepares to take flight this weekend for their 13th season with 24 teams in the United States and Canada.  Each team will play 12 regular season games.  The season will end with the 13th Championship Weekend from August 23-24 at Zion Bank Stadium in Salt Lake City, Utah. Overview Number of teams:  24 Defending Champions:  New York Empire Players to watch: Jeff Babbitt (Boston), Ben Katz (Boston), Lukas Ambrose (Seattle), Ben Jagt (New York), Hayden Austin-Knab (Atlanta), Thomas Edmonds (DC), Liam Haberfield (New York), Joe Merrill (Salt Lake), Drew Swanson (Carolina),  What's new this season? The name.  During the offseason, the league entered into a long-term licensing agreement with Sport Dimension Inc. which is the owner of the Frisbee trademark for the use of the name.  This allowed the league to evolve from the American Ultimate Disc League to the Ultimate Fris

Indoor Football Scoreboard Page - 4/25/24

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 Weekly arena/indoor football standings/scores: AMERICAN INDOOR FOOTBALL Columbus (GA) Lions (3-0) Corpus Christi Titans (3-0) Harrisburg Stampede (1-1) Cedar Rapids River Kings (0-2) Amarillo Venom (0-3) Last week's scores: Columbus 73, Harrisburg 19 Corpus Christi 76, Pharr Phantoms 6 (Exhibition) This week's schedule: Saturday, April 27 Columbus at Harrisburg Corpus Christi at Amarillo INDOOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE Eastern Division Frisco Fighters (4-0) Massachusetts Pirates (4-1) Green Bay Blizzard (3-1) Quad City Steamwheelers (2-2) Tulsa Oilers (2-2) Iowa Barnstormers (0-4) Jacksonville Sharks (0-4) Sioux Falls Storm (0-4) Western Division Bay Area Panthers (4-0) Vegas Knight Hawks (4-0) Northern Arizona Wranglers (3-1) San Diego Strike Force (3-1) Arizona Rattlers (2-3) San Antonio Gunslingers (1-3) Tucson Sugar Skulls (1-3) Duke City Gladiators (0-4) Last week's scores: San Antonio 60, Tucson 36 Green Bay 48, Sioux Falls 35 Vegas 61, Jacksonville 35 Quad City 54, Massachus

Jacksonville State Wins College Bowling Title

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In the first year of bowling, Jacksonville State recently won the 2024 National Championship in College Bowling with a thrilling 4-3 over Arkansas State.  The match was played in front of a national television audience and a packed house at Detroit's historic Thunderbowl lanes. Former McKendree Coach Shannon O'Keefe knows how to build a championship program as she led McKendree to the 2017 and 2022 titles.  She led Jacksonville State to success with her first team. In a battle between the nation’s top two teams (the 12th time they had met this season), the top-ranked and top-seeded Jacksonville State Gamecocks (103-23) found themselves in a 3-2 hole behind No. 2 Arkansas State Red Wolves with their backs against the wall. The Red Wolves definitely pushed Jacksonville State, reversing momentum after a back-and-forth start to win the fourth and fifth games to take a 3-2 lead and pull to within one win of their first national title. It didn’t faze the Gamecocks, however. They sett

New Roller Derby League Planned

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  Roller Derby has been around in some form since the 1930s.  From leagues to entertainment to the numerous flat-track teams around the United States.  The Extreme Roller Derby (ERD) is planning a new variation to the sport in 2025. The most notable change is the track.  The ERD will feature the "Extreme Ramp".  This addition will be 25 feet high and at a 45-degree angle.  The ERD banked track will also have 15 feet added to the straightaway to create more action.  The league will have eight city-named teams but will all play in the Extreme RollerDome in Costa Mesa, California.  The arena will have a seating capacity of 2,000. Some other notable features include: Extreme substitutions with female jammers vs male blockers and male jammers vs. female blockers. Jammers can score double points or more in Extreme Substitution wars. Each city team will field a men's and women's team. Regular season will run from January through October. Twenty (20) regular season matches wi

Indoor Soccer's Final Four Set

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The four teams in this season's Major Arena Soccer League (MASL) are set.  The San Diego Sockers will face the Chihuahua Savage in the Western Conference final while the surprising Milwaukee Wave will play the Kansas City Comets in the Eastern Conference final. The big news in the conference semifinals was Milwaukee's elimination of the heavily favored Monterrey Flash which had finished the MASL regular season undefeated at 24-0.  The Flash opened the playoff series edging the Wave 8-7 in Milwaukee, but the Wave won game two 5-4 then the 15-minute tiebreaker game 2-1 to stun Monterrey on their home field.  Each game in the series was won in overtime. The Comets became the only team in this season's semifinal round to sweep their series and they used a come-from-behind effort to beat Utica 7-5 to advance to the Conference Finals against the Milwaukee Wave. With the win, both of the Eastern Conference's top seeds have been eliminated from the playoffs with Utica City FC j

Indoor Football Scoreboard - 4/16/24

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Weekly arena/indoor football standings/scores: AMERICAN INDOOR FOOTBALL Corpus Christi Titans (3-0) Columbus (GA) Lions (2-0) Harrisburg Stampede (1-0) Cedar Rapids River Kings (0-2) Amarillo Venom (0-3) Last week's scores: Columbus 75, Amarillo 27 Harrisburg 84, Maryland Eagles 0 (Exhibition) Corpus Christi 58, Cedar Rapids 38 This week's schedule: Thursday, April 18 Harrisburg at Columbus Friday, April 19 Pharr Phantoms at Corpus Christi (Exhibition) INDOOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE Eastern Division Massachusetts Pirates (4-0) Frisco Fighters (3-0) Green Bay Blizzard (2-1) Tulsa Oilers (2-1) Quad City Steamwheelers (1-2) Iowa Barnstormers (0-3) Jacksonville Sharks (0-3) Sioux Falls Storm (0-3) Western Division Bay Area Panthers (3-0) San Diego Strike Force (3-0) Vegas Knight Hawks (3-0) Northern Arizona Wranglers (2-1) Tucson Sugar Skulls (1-2) Arizona Rattlers (1-3) Duke City Gladiators (0-3) San Antonio Gunslingers (0-3) Last week's scores: Massachusetts 54, Iowa 29 Vegas 66, San

Swamp Buggy Racing: NASCAR in the Swamp

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So, imagine if you were able to race in the swamp? Never occurred to you? If you are a racing fan and love the swamp then you might want to check out swamp buggy racing. Yes, it’s a thing. Where can you see this kind of racing? Southwest Florida is THE place for this type of racing. Naples, Florida has been doing it for the past 75 years. So how did this sport get started? A man named Ed Frank from Naples, Florida invented what we know today as the swamp buggy.  As you can imagine, this vehicle was a necessity to navigate in the nearby Everglades in the and this vehicle proved valuable as the Everglades.  It was originally called the “Tumble Bug”, the first prototype was a tall and strange-looking vehicle and was used for just about everything from hunting expeditions around the area or as a family vehicle used in Sunday afternoon outings. Later, with a few dozen hunters, a race was created with these new vehicles. The first events took place around 1943. The races grew over the follow