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The United States Australian Football League recently announced the venues for the next two years of the national championships. In 2012 the games will return to Mason Ohio and in 2013 they will be in Dublin Ohio.

Both the USAFL Revolution and USA Freedom acquitted themselves well in their respective international cup campaigns. The Freedom in their 5 team competition finished 3rd and the Revos were competitive but lacked the polish of the top teams and finished 4th.

Well we had a break and a welcome one but www.usfootynews.com is now back to bring you the very latest news from USA Aussie rules football. There has been a lot happening so it may take us a few weeks to catch up but be sure to visit the new USFootyNews forum and talk about anything that's on your mind.

USFooty News received news that 29 teams have nominated for the top three divisions for the National Championships. This is five more than the required teams to fill the three divisions of eight teams.

The Cincinnati Dockers in the 15th Anniversary of the beginning of the USAFL finished off their 2011 schedule with a handy win over nearest neighbor the Louisville Kings winning 12.19.91 to Louisville 4.9.33

This afternoon at the 2011 USAFL Annual General Meeting conducted in Austin Texas at the conclusion of the Administrators Conference the club delegates elected Andy Vanica as the new President of the USAFL for 2012 year. The USAFL board in 2012 will also include three new faces in Vice President and At Large roles.

Vanica takes over from Rich Mann who has brought the USAFL to new levels in his 5 year tenure as President and ensured the organization is now regarded as the best run Australian Football League outside Australia. Mann will stay on with the USAFL as the Nationals Tournament Director. Also new to the board are Brandon Blankenship, Dan Sarbacker in VP roles and Kathryn Hogg as the At Large officer.

The Denver Bulldogs continued their dominance of Aussie Rules Football at the USAFL National Championships with a superb win over the Calgary Kangaroos on Saturday in Texas, scores being 3.2.20 to 0.5.5. The Bulldogs went through their three pool games on Saturday and early Sunday pretty much unchallenged with tough but comprehensive wins over San Diego, Baltimore DC and Seattle before moving onto the final in front of a crowd of 200 passionate footy followers and players.

The Dallas Magpies did what many teams just dream about Nationals weekend, blow every team they play out of the water. To many, it doesn't matter what division you are in the struggles are the same, however Dallas now USAFL Division 2 Champions have completed the 4 game weekend winning streak twice in just three years.

The Australian Football League based in Melbourne Australia, the sports trustee for want of a better term, has again dudded the sport and the USAFL developments plans in the USA by going with a broadcast agreement with the cable station of Fox Soccer Plus for the next three years, 2012 -2014. This will mean that the chances of Aussie Rules Football being shown on mainstream USA TV with an audience potential of 250+ million is about zero.

Instead the games will be on a pay up extra cable channel that is not carried by all cable companies. The development potential of the sport just took 25 steps backwards. It is like the 70s again.