June 12, 2018
By Evan Lepler

As I write the very first sentence of this Tuesday Toss, I’m already worried that the column will be too long. And for me, your verbose, long-form ultimate scribe, to be fretting about that this early, it’s troubling.

I have strived to embrace brevity more regularly this season—if you haven’t noticed, the 2018 Toss has been closer to 5,000 words than 7,500 each week—but sometimes there are just so many stories to be told.

PHILA PA -- This week the Philadelphia Phoenix will enjoy their first BYE after 9 straight weeks of AUDL competition, taking some much needed time for rest and reflection. With the respite we also can’t help but look ahead to the final stretch of the Phoenix season and the tangled race for playoffs the AUDL East has created.

June 8, 2018
By Evan Lepler

June 7, 2018
By Owen Krucoff

Since the birth of the first Canadian expansion team in 2013, U.S. and Canadian teams have battled for supremacy on the AUDL field. The northern neighbors dominated the first few years of the international rivalry, but the U.S.-based teams have closed the gap, coming up just one game short in last year’s Cross Border Challenge.