Author: Andrew Baker

Down by four goals in the fourth quarter and your goalie has over twenty saves.  There is another save and he takes a pass back from one of his defensemen and carries the ball into the other team’s zone and dishes it.  Typical hustle play in a tough game to try and shift momentum and close the gap and win.  Except the goalie cuts to the goal after dishing the…

Working in the restaurant business has ups and downs, much like any other job.  This past week had more of the latter with one of the other managers covering a shift at another location, last minute schedule changes, cold weather and rain shutting down the deck, and the realization that all of this cut into my usual writing time.  After a certain amount of self pity and I hate my…

In my last column I discussed how the foundation of Major League Lacrosse provided field players with the opportunity to play professionally after graduation.  The league is entering its fourteenth season despite naysayers predicting the dissolution every year.  Fourteen years may appear to be the miniscule compared to the history of the NFL, NBA, NHL, or MLB.  The MLL proves that it is the league that just will not fold….

This is my first column about the MLL and since every journey starts with a single step it seems fitting to start at the beginning of the league. The league was founded by Jake Steinfeld, Dave Morrow, and Tim Robertson seemingly out of thin air and will power.  These gentlemen pulled together and even though it took three years before the first official season they never gave up and the…