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The WikiProject Arena Football League newsletter
Issue X — May 2009

Table of contents

Project news
- Needs
- Newsletter news
Current events
- Storm owner has heart surgery.
- New Policy.
- The Wheelers' aren't fans of HoJos.
- No more football in L.A.
- AFL returning in 2010.
Transactions
- Notable af2 transactions
Arena Football League Article Stats

Project News

Needs

Articles for the more popular and "star" players of the league need to be expanded, have citations added to them and hopefully we can get some GA's out of them.
All articles on active players and coaches need to be updated with stats, news, and all things important. (Note: For stats it's best to use ArenaFan.)
Please help in re-assessing articles, as well as expanding them. We need to get to work on it and get as much done as possible.

Current events

Storm owner has heart surgery

In late March, Tampa Bay Storm minority owner Peter "Woody" Kern, had surgery for an aortic aneurysm. He was listed in critical condition at Memorial Herman Heart & Vascular Institute at the Texas Medical Center in Houston.

New Policy

On April 5, Ed Policy stepped down as acting AFL commissioner. Policy said that the league's restructuring will require a CEO, "a job in which Policy has no interest."

The Wheelers' aren't fans of HoJos.

On April 13, the Quad City Steamwheelers experienced a slight problem on "Victory Monday" when the "name" had to be changed to "Moving Monday" after the Howard Johnson's the team was staying at shut down for good and forced guests to leave.

No more football in L.A.

On April 19, Casey Wasserman, ceased operations of the Los Angeles Avengers, saying on the teams website; "The LA Avengers has terminated its participation in the Arena Football League...."

AFL returning in 2010.

On April 23, the Arena Football League announced that they had finalized a new business model that will enable the league to return in time for the 2010 season.

Transactions

Notable af2 transactions

On March 26, K Art Carmody was assigned to the Bossier-Shreveport Battle Wings.
On April 17, the Kentucky Horsemen suspended FB/LB Bernard Jackson.
On April 21, the Tri-Cities Fever placed QB Joe Ayoob on Recallable Re-assignment. (Activated the next day.)
On April 23, the Burn placed OL Kyle DeVan on the Other League Exempt. (see above)
On April 24, the Fever traded QB Joe Ayoob to the Amarillo Dusters.
On April 26, the Fever fired Head coach Richard Davis after an 0-5 start to the season. He was replaced by Los Angeles Avengers Heard coach Pat O'Hara on April 27.
On April 28, following a 1-4 start, the Mahoning Valley Thunder fired Head coach Mike Hold, and named Defensive coordinator Brennen Booth as interim Head coach.

Arena Football League Article Stats

Our goal is to get the number of Stub-Class articles down to 0, in due time. The current article count is listed below, I have placed the forumla that is on the project page that is updated everytime the bot is run and it tallies up our articles and where they are and lists them as seen below, so that no one has to worry about making sure it's updated manually before the newsletter is sent out. It would be greatly appreciated if anyone could help expand and/or source an article or two. A list is provided in the stub-class category of stub articles that need to be improved, and some should be fairly easy.

Arena Football League pages by quality
Quality
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Editor help

Member News

Based on the members list, there are currently 28 members participating in WikiProject Arena Football League.

On the calendar:
- May
  - TBD - NFL OTA's conclude.
  - 18-20 - NFL Spring Meeting: Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
  - TBD - NFL Mini-camps held.

Articles for Deletion

New AFL Articles

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