When Brahmas’ kicker Ryan Santoso’s game-winning field goal attempt fluttered harmlessly wide left of the goalposts at The Dome at America’s Center on Saturday, the ramifications were immediately felt. Kaws echoed from the rafters as 34,379 St. Louis partisans savored...
Nathan Church stood underneath an oval “2012” plaque on the clubhouse façade that commemorates Springfield’s lone Texas League championship title, and an hour before Game 1 of Wednesday’s doubleheader at Hammons Field, he pondered goals for 2024. Church’s play lately...
Bryan Torres watched the first two offerings from Midland Rockhounds reliever Wander Guante whiz by for called strikes. Springfield enjoyed a 4-1 lead in the seventh inning on Friday night, thanks to Torres’ two-RBI single with two out in the second inning when he...
With a playoff spot at stake, quarterback A.J. McCarron sidelined, and the division nemesis from D.C. in town, the St. Louis Battlehawks needed to gut one out. Who better to be a hero than Mike Panasiuk, the burly center with his gut out? St. Louis trailed the D.C....
Birmingham lined up to punt with under a minute remaining, and with St. Louis on the wrong side of an Alabama shootout, the Battlehawks’ coaching staff weighed the odds of a blocked kick that would give the offense one last shot. “Money was getting tossed around over...
Quarterback A.J. McCarron faced a media blitz on Tuesday where he dodged a rush of questions about his return to Alabama when the Battlehawks (5-1) travel to Birmingham (6-0) Saturday for a highly anticipated clash of the UFL’s top teams. “Listen, it’s just another...
One of head coach Anthony Becht’s favorite mantas is for St. Louis to “lock the gates” at home. When the clock expired on the Battlehawks’ 22-8 win over the Houston Roughnecks at The Dome on Saturday, edge rusher Pita Taumoepenu and the defense held the keys. St....
A.J. McCarron was a young quarterback at St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Mobile, Alabama, when he developed a pre-game superstition. The Saints football team attended chapel before his first start and players were supposed to exit from the backdoor and walk through...
St. Louis’ defense and special teams campaigned hard for three quarters, but the D.C. Defenders managed to stay within the margin-of-error on the scoreboard. Once the Battlehawks’ offense joined the party, the landslide was on. Hakeem Butler ran a vertical route and...
