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NLL Awards: Who Should Take Home Major Awards?

May 28, 2014
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Photo Credit: Calgary Roughnecks After the NLL championship final this week, we will see the league’s major awards announced. We gathered our NLL staff to give their thoughts on who should win each award and why. Not all awards are agreed upon and it is majority vote, so the actual winner isn’t actually the opinions held by every writer. MVP: Shawn Evans, Calgary Roughnecks Agnes Reis: Aaron Bold—Out of 18 games,…

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NCAA Tournament: Duke and Hopkins Set to Face Off

At noon this Sunday, May 18, Johns Hopkins (11-4) will take on the Duke Blue Devils (14-3) in what should be one of the best matchups we will see in the year’s tournament. For Johns Hopkins, defeating Duke would mean getting back to the NCAA Semi-Finals for the first time since 2008. Since then, they have made a few different appearances in the tournament, falling every time in the quarterfinals….

May 17, 2014
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Podcast: Bryant Defenseman Matt MacGrotty

In this episode of Increasingly Lax, Todd McElwee went one on one with Bryant Bulldogs defenseman Matt MacGrotty to preview Bryant’s quarterfinals game against the Maryland Terrapins which takes place today. MacGrotty is a Canadian senior out of New Westminster and one of the leaders on the defense unit for the Bulldogs that shut down Syracuse in their upset first-round win.

May 17, 2014
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WLA Faces Potential Referee Strike

May 7, 2014
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Photo Credit: Dan Brodie The Western Lacrosse Association season is set to start in about 10 days when the Thunder play the Adanacs. According to Teddy Jenner from the Off the Crossebar radio show, the WLA and BC Lacrosse Officials Association have been negotiating their wages for some months. The refs would like to see their pay double, according to the report. They currently make $110 a game and $85…

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Ivy League: Harvard Starts with Momentum, UPenn Stole It Away

During playoffs for any sport, it is well-documented that anything can happen. In the past, we have seen sub-par teams defeat top-seeded ones for national championships. In the Ivy League women’s lacrosse championship, this could not have been less true. As most people expected and predicted, the final for this conference featured Princeton and Penn, the two best teams in the league. Penn came into the game with a 12-4…

May 5, 2014
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Cannons Take Opener Against Bayhawks

In their season opener, the Boston Cannons left no quarter in an impressive 15-9 win over the Chesapeake Bayhawks. Both offensively and defensively, the Cannons played a complete game, exposing some sloppy passing and inconsistent offense on behalf of the Bayhawks. The first quarter of the game remained fairly close at just 2-0 in favor of the Cannons, but the adjustments made by Boston rendered too much for Chesapeake, who…

April 28, 2014
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