The Rattlers will play their home opener without quarterback Sherdrick Bonner, who on Tuesday was placed on injured reserve with a right knee injury suffered last week.

Joe Germaine became the coach of the Queen Creek football team in February of this year.

Former Mesa Mountain View quarterback Joe Germaine has opted out of his contract with the Arena Football League's Utah Blaze and hopes to sign with the Arizona Rattlers.

Joe Germaine is expected to be named the new Queen Creek football coach tonight at a meeting of the Queen Creek Unified School District’s governing board.

It was the game their coach said they had to win. And for more than 59 minutes the Arizona Rattlers did. But Joe Germaine hit Orshawante Bryant (both former Rattlers) with a 23-yard touchdown pass with 14 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter, sending the Utah Blaze to an improbable 75-71 win Saturday in front of 9,594 at US Airways Center.

The Arizona Rattlers have signed quarterback Joe Germaine (6-foot-2, 220 pounds) to a contract, the team announced Monday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Whispers whipped through the hallways of Queen Creek right around this time two years ago.

Joe Germaine was approved as the Queen Creek football coach on Tuesday at a meeting of the Queen Creek Unified School District’s governing board.

The Queen Creek football program began a new era Friday night.

With the magnificent documentary "West of Memphis," Peter Jackson reveals the results of his own unexpected journey, from New Zealand to rural Arkansas, where he and an unwavering band of filmmakers, artists and other dissenters challenged the judicial system and won.

Quarterback Joe Germaine signed with the Arizona Rattlers on Thursday.

Joe Germaine spent the first day of his new gig as Queen Creek’s football coach Wednesday introducing himself to his players. In the morning it was the freshmen and sophomores. In the afternoon, it was the juniors (seniors-to-be this fall).

It has been a few years since Siaha Burley and Joe Germaine went to junior high school together in Mesa.

"Here Comes the Boom," with Kevin James as a tubby high school science teacher who becomes a mixed martial-arts sensation, is every bit as ridiculous as it looks.

Max Germaine was willing to sit back and observe last season. As backup quarterback at Mountain View last year to fellow junior Max Hall, Germaine realized he had little chance of unseating Hall this year as long as the ASU-bound quarterback remained healthy.