JC Abbott

The highly anticipated regular season finale between the Wroclaw Panthers and Bialystok Lowlanders had everything on paper. Two potent passing offenses, a clash of the league’s best defenses, a battle of superstar […]

Growing up in Schenectady, New York, a young Brandon Gwinner could not have fathomed the journey he’s been on the last two years. A promising baseball player who changed course after falling in love with the […]

If you are a fan of the Canadian Football League, you’ve seen the same play dozens of time. A savvy, athletic defensive end delays his rush, baits the throw and then gets his hands in the open passing lane, […]

When a title contender makes a mid-season acquisition, they are looking for the missing piece to put them over the top. That’s what the Carlstad Crusaders were hoping to find when they signed German-American […]

We live in an automated world. From the gadgets in our pockets to factory automation and the rise of artificial intelligence, recent history has shown that when it is man versus machine, bet on the machines. […]

Carlstad Crusaders linebacker Christian Kuylenstjerna isn’t used to the spotlight. Despite a list of previous accolades, the hulking linebacker is quick to deflect praise. Instead, he communicates on the field in […]

Viktor Ekberg doesn’t get a lot of sleep.

The newly established starting quarterback for the Uppsala 86ers, not yet 20-years old, has to worry about strength training, film study, offensive installs and […]

It’s a snap.

According to the old idiom, a snap is something easy, effortless and automatic. For the Silesia Rebels on Saturday, nothing could have been further from the truth.

Desperate to record their […]

You never know where you’ll find your calling in life.

Sitting in Bialystok, Poland, Glen Toonga, from London, is nowhere he ever would have expected when he began his football journey as a wide-eyed first […]

Ryan Tuiasoa is a long way from home.

Playing in Wroclaw, Poland, his hometown of Kailua on the Hawaiian island of O’ahu is 7,412 miles away as the crow flies, but the import back believes the differences […]

Norse raiders were once the bane of Europe, but no medieval peasant ever had to worry about an aerial attack quite as intimidating as the one that the Dacia Vienna Vikings used to lay siege to the Projekt […]

For the first time in two years, the Carlstad Crusaders topped the Stockholm Mean Machines, making a decisive statement that the Superserien playoffs beginning next week will truly be up for grabs.

Just a week […]

While earlier this year they were simply ecstatic to be playing at all, the Dacia Vienna Vikings enter Saturday’s third matchup with the Projekt Spielberg Graz Giants hoping it will be the last game in an unusual […]

It’s a game that means nothing for the playoff standings, but don’t tell that to the players.

When the undefeated Stockholm Mean Machines head to Carlstad on Saturday, they’ll be looking to prove their […]

The Örebro Black Knights might be riding high this week following an historic victory over the Carlstad Crusaders, but the team knows that momentum going into the Swedish playoffs will quickly disappear if they […]

Although the shortened Danish season came to a sudden end, it did have many bright lights, one of them being receiver Niko Lester, now a member of Sweden’s Carlstad Crusaders.

AFI’s JC Abbott spoke with Niko […]

A lot has changed since the turn of the millennium. The internet has traveled from our desktops to our pockets, must-watch television network serials have been replaced by binge watching the latest fad and there […]

The story of the young writer pinching pennies and taking odd jobs to make ends meet is a staple of modern media, one told to us in many different forms. In print, film and television, the struggling storyteller […]

In a COVID-19 world, we’ve all gotten used to putting up with a little buffering. Slow connections, frozen screens, and those all too familiar “can you hear me” video calls have become our new reality. It seems […]

Fans hoping for a high scoring football game may have been disappointed, but that didn’t shrink the smiles on the faces of those in the Kuopio Steelers organization when the final whistle sounded in the Finnish […]