Timpview High School held a 38-31 lead over Mountain Crest in double-overtime of the 2012 Utah Class 4A State Championship game and Thunderbirds’ defensive end Pita Taumoepenu sensed victory as he stalked the line of scrimmage on a do-or-die fourth-down play. Mountain...
A.J. McCarron said his injured ankle likely requires surgery after the Battlehawks season ended with a 25-15 loss to San Antonio in the XFL Conference Championship game at The Dome at America’s Center on Sunday. “Just moving the way I was before that Birmingham game...
Like pioneers at the confluence of two mighty rivers, head coach Anthony Becht and quarterback A.J. McCarron met in St. Louis two years ago and embarked into the wild spring football frontier. Success was uncertain. Could the 31-year-old quarterback with a surgically...
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...
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...
