Arizona Rattlers relaunch; Name President and Head Coach
Arizona Rattlers Press Release
The Arizona Rattlers of the Arena Football One named DANNY WHITE team President and KEVIN GUY Head Coach & Director of Football Operations at a press conference today.

Blaze assistant on list of 3 finalists for top job
Salt Lake Tribune
He said the Arena Football League franchise hopes to be able to name its second head coach in its three-year history "later this week" at a news conference in Salt Lake City. "Our short list is still short," he said.

Blaze: Coaching search narrowed to three candidates
Salt Lake Tribune
The Arena Football League franchise hopes to be able to name its second head coach in its three-year history "later this week" at a news conference in Salt Lake City.

Utah Blaze: Uncertainty for White, free agents
Deseret News
The only head coach and general manager in the three-year history of the Blaze has an expiring contract, and it's not a sure thing the former Dallas Cowboy star quarterback and AFL coaching legend will return.

Second-half drives keep 7-10 Crush in it
Denver Post
History did not favor Colorado as it faced the task of beating the Utah Blaze in its home arena.

AFL playoffs: Blaze get knocked out
Salt Lake Tribune
While putting together their unlikely late-season run to make the Arena Football League playoffs and earn the right to host a wild card game, the Utah Blaze got more than their share of fortuitous breaks and game-swinging calls, winning six of their last seven games after a forgettable 0-9 start.

Blaze: Second-half errors doom Utah
Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Blaze were haunted - not by old wounds but by their performance in the second half. Again.

Three receivers instrumental in turnaround
Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Blaze have created their own version of the "Three Amigos," and the guy who delivers the ball, quarterback Joe Germaine, understands and is thankful for the luxury of having multiple targets.

Dutton still pulls into AFL playoffs despite obstacles
Rocky Mountain News
For lack of a better description, this has been a strange season for Crush quarterback John Dutton and his teammates.

Blaze receivers set new AFL record
Utah Blaze Press Release
The Utah Blaze is the first team in the history of the AFL to have three receivers attain 1,500-plus receiving yards, 100-plus receptions and 20-plus touchdown receptions in the regular season.

Rattlers fall in regular-season finale to Blaze
East Valley Tribune
The Rattlers have worked hard all season to earn a home playoff game. Now that it’s at hand, is there any way to give it up and play on the road? On Saturday, the Rattlers once again started out lethargically at US Airways Center en route to a 62-45 beating by Danny White’s Utah Blaze.

Utah Blaze: How did they do it?
Deseret News
Damon Mason has been around the Arena Football League a long, long time. The veteran defensive back has played for Orlando, New Jersey, Las Vegas, Carolina, Orlando again, Grand Rapids, Austin and Orlando for a third time.

Utah Blaze: Team faces Rampage with playoffs in mind
Deseret News
The Utah Blaze, after a miserable start to the season, have won three of their last four games to move into playoff contention.

Blaze: Blaze field goal burns Chicago
Salt Lake Tribune
With less than a minute remaining in Saturday night's Arena Football League game, a fan walked by Utah Blaze coach Danny White and questioned the Hall of Famer's late-game strategy for an onside kick that was unsuccessful and pretty much gave the Chicago Rush an easy touchdown.

Arena football: Luck or drive, Blaze win again
Salt Lake Tribune
When the Utah Blaze were losing games every which way imaginable in March and April, they felt snakebit. Breaks just never went their way.

Blaze: Utah spellbound
Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Blaze needed a witchdoctor to break their winless spell. What they got instead was another loss against the VooDoo on Friday at New Orleans Arena in front of a crowd of 15,041.

Winless Blaze looking to exorcise VooDoo
Deseret News
Damon Mason hasn't become the all-time leading tackler in Arena Football League history without picking up some well-earned perspective.

Utah Blaze notebook: Team trying to shake that losing feeling
Deseret News
Devin Wyman was an all-league lineman for an Arena Football League team that was nearly perfect during the regular season in 2007, the 15-1 Dallas Desperados.

Soul not taking winless Blaze lightly
Cherry Hill Courier Post
The 5-0 Soul will take on the 0-5 Utah Blaze in a 7 p.m. Arena Football League game today at the Wachovia Spectrum, and the records indicate this shouldn't be a very tough game for the home team.

Winless Blaze fizzle badly
Deseret News
It's an indisputable fact that the Utah Blaze are the best 0-5 team in the Arena Football League following their 70-49 loss to the Georgia Force on Saturday night at EnergySolutions Arena.

Heartless Blaze blown out
Salt Lake Tribune
On a night when the Utah Blaze honored the player with perhaps the biggest heart, drive and desire in franchise history - deceased former receiver Justin Skaggs - and announced that they are retiring his No. 3 jersey, they played like they had no heart themselves, their veteran Arena Football League coach said.

Team to remember Skaggs
Salt Lake Tribune
It has been a little more than nine months since the Utah's Blaze's Justin Skaggs died due to a cancerous brain tumor, but the Arena Football League franchise does not want to wait for the one-year mark to honor the popular receiver and linebacker.

Utah offense falls flat
Salt Lake Tribune
The team that keeps inventing ways to lose did it again Friday night, only this time there was a scapegoat not normally mentioned when the Utah Blaze play at EnergySolutions Arena: The offense.

Blaze eye removal of goose egg
Deseret News
Two Arena Football League teams that entered the 2008 season with high expectations will play tonight at EnergySolutions Arena.

Utah aims to slow Columbus
Salt Lake Tribune
Only one team in the Arena Football League - Philadelphia - has scored more points than the Utah Blaze three games into the 2008 season. No team - not one - has given up more points, 198, than Utah.

Breaking it down - 2008 Week Three
Andy Lopusnak, ArenaFan.com
With Week Three of the 2008 Arena Football League season in the books, here are some breakdowns of this past week’s AFL action based on interesting statistical and historical notes, weekly leaders and other things from each game.

Blaze lose to Predators, drop to 0-3
Deseret News
For the third consecutive week to start out the 2008 Arena Football League season, the Utah Blaze found a way to lose on Friday night.

2 teams without a victory square off
Deseret News
After two frustrating losses to open the Arena Football League season, a win tonight could do wonders for the Utah Blaze.

Blaze notes: Replacing Burley easy for Blaze
Salt Lake Tribune
One of the major questions surrounding the Utah Blaze this season was how the team would replace receiver Siaha Burley, the 2007 Arena Football League Offensive Player of the Year who bolted for Arizona in the offseason.

No widespread panic
Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Blaze are 0-2 for the first time ever and have already given up 129 points, second-most in the Arena Football League. To make matters worse, they will practice only twice this week before playing their second game in five days on Friday, against the also-winless Orlando Predators.

Blaze: Blaze hope to avoid 1st 0-2 start
Salt Lake Tribune
For all his years in the Arena Football League, Utah Blaze coach Danny White can't remember being dealt a more bizarre early-season schedule than this one.

Utility man not short on versatility
Salt Lake Tribune
The Utah Blaze could field a pretty formidable basketball team with the receivers they invited to training camp this year, guys such as 6-foot-6 Anthony Brown of Arkansas, 6-6 David Sutton of UTEP and 6-5 Huey Whittaker of South Florida.

What's this? Blaze may actually try to run the ball, too
Deseret News
Arena football is a pass-happy game. Running the football just isn't usually an effective way of moving the football down the field in the AFL. The running back is really more of a fourth lineman protecting the quarterback than he is a ball-carrier.

No ordinary Joe: QB Germaine looks to Blaze frontier for Utah's AFL team
Deseret News
The quarterback, no matter what the league or level, is always a focal point of a football team.

Burley leaves big shoes to fill
Salt Lake Tribune
Perhaps it is because he has inherited the familiar No. 5 jersey, but Utah Blaze newcomer J.J. McKelvey turned in the best line during training camp when he was asked which receiver would replace Siaha Burley.

Jackson signing gives Graziani, Soul a potent weapon
Philadelphia Daily News
Soul wide receiver Chris Jackson yesterday was introduced amid a number of news cameras, a gaggle of VIP ticketholders and several baskets of crab fries. And, oh, yeah, a certain recognizable rock star.

Blaze sign former BYU lineman, trade Konopka
Salt Lake Tribune
Former BYU offensive lineman Eddie Keele, who suffered a knee injury that cut short his senior season, signed a two-year contract today with the Utah Blaze. Keele started all 12 games as a junior and did not allow a single sack.