Depth at receiver still an issue for San Jose SaberCats
Alameda Times-Star
Arena football: Miserable first half dooms Blaze
Salt Lake Tribune
Blaze pick up first road win, 74-71 over Georgia
KSL-TV
Arizona Rattlers stay unbeaten after overtime win
AZ Central.com
Arizona Rattlers stay unbeaten after overtime win
Arizona Republic
Utah Blaze bit by Rattlers in overtime
KSL-TV
Arizona Rattlers WR Rod Windsor a man of all seasons
AZ Central.com
Utah Blaze: Aaron Boone gets AFL award
Deseret News
Utah Blaze shock ArenaBowl champions
Deseret News
Utah Blaze try to tame SaberCats
Deseret News
Arena Football: Predators light up the Blaze
Salt Lake Tribune
Blaze ready for new season
Deseret News
Blaze receiver earns All-Arena league honors
Salt Lake Tribune
WR Aaron Boone Signs Three-year Contract With Utah Blaze
KSL-TV
Utah Blaze coach Ron James announced Thursday the re-signing of WR AARON BOONE (6-3, 208, Kentucky) to a three-year contract.
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.
Execution, bounces foil Blaze plans
Deseret News
A funny bounce, a reversed call, a defensive stop or a pass that may have been caught or dropped. One play in a four-quarter game could have made a huge difference in the Utah Blaze's 49-44 loss to the Colorado Crush in the wild-card round of the Arena Football League playoffs.
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.
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.
Playoff mode nothing new for Blaze
Deseret News
Nine games into the Arena Football League season, with his team 0-9, even the ever-optimistic Danny White knew it was highly unlikely his Utah Blaze would be playing during the final days of June. To do so, Utah would have to qualify for the playoffs.
Blaze aim to keep fire burning vs. Crush
Daily Herald
Nine weeks ago, the Utah Blaze looked about as playoff-bound as the Miami Dolphins did the entire 2007 NFL season, as the Blaze got off to an 0-9 start in the 2008 AFL season.
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.
Blaze clinch playoff spot
Salt Lake Tribune
With very little help from the rest of the league the past two weeks, Utah was forced to win its final regular-season game at Arizona on Saturday night where it appeared to be a team poised to make something happen in the playoffs.
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.
Blaze can move into fourth with win
Deseret News
Before the current season began, Utah Blaze coach Danny White said the goal for his third-year Arena Football League team was to host at least one playoff game.
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.
Utah Blaze: Utah plan vs. Rush: Get lead
Deseret News
On paper, it appears like a huge mismatch. The Utah Blaze have just two wins in a dozen games. The Chicago Rush has only two losses in 11 starts.
Blaze: Easy as 1, 2, 3
Salt Lake Tribune
Conventional wisdom would suggest that the last team in the Arena Football League that the Utah Blaze want to play right now is the Chicago Rush. The 2006 ArenaBowl champions are 9-2, have won five straight games and are coming off Monday night's 72-28 thrashing of the Los Angeles Avengers on national television.
Blaze: Safeties still proving to be dangerous
Salt Lake Tribune
If there has been one particular kind of play that has just killed the Utah Blaze in their three-year existence, it has been the safety.
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: Winning jogs team's memory
Salt Lake Tribune
Having won last week for the first time all season, the Utah Blaze (1-9) spent this week working on their short-term memory as they prepared to host the 4-5 Colorado Crush at EnergySolutions tonight (7 p.m., KJZZ).
Blaze receivers just fine sans Burley
Deseret News
Siaha Burley of the Utah Blaze set the all-time Arena Football League record for receiving yardage last season, earning him the league's Offensive Player of the Year honor. Utah went 8-8 and qualified for the playoffs.
Arena Football: Winless Blaze say they won't become the first AFL ...
Salt Lake Tribune
Barring a complete and miraculous turnaround that would rival anything that has ever been accomplished in the, the Utah Blaze will not be going to the playoffs.
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.
Blaze: Playoffs? Coach of 0-6 Utah says maybe
Salt Lake Tribune
If there is a silver lining to the Utah Blaze's 0-6 start - and that's a big if for a team yet to win a game in 2008 - it is that most of the other teams in the Arena Football League's American Conference are off to bad starts, too.
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.
Blaze to honor Skaggs during game
Deseret News
Justin Skaggs certainly wasn't the most talented player Danny White ever coached. He may have been the hardest worker, however.
Blaze may be winless but feeling confident
Deseret News
One-quarter of the Arena Football League season is over for the Utah Blaze and they still have a big goose egg in the win column. Utah, a team with championship aspirations entering the season, is one of only two winless teams in the 17-team league.
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.
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.
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.
Spotlight shines on Germaine
Salt Lake Tribune
Utah Blaze receiver Aaron Boone has a theory, which wouldn't seem like that big of a deal if it weren't coming from a player who catches passes for a living.
Utah Blaze: Two re-sign as Burley waits
Salt Lake Tribune
The three- and two-year deals came on the heels of Tuesday's news that the franchise had re-signed receiver Aaron Boone to a two-year contract. Last week, the team re-upped linemen Chris Janek and Thaddeus Bullard. Noticeably absent from the Blaze's list
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