If you thought things were occluded in the MLL ranking hierarchy before then this past weekend’s action didn’t do much to lift the fog. I’ve tried a few new strategies for my prognostication methodology for this week though. Remember the witch from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves? Yeah, I don’t recommend that. And I thought about trying to channel the Oracle of Delphi, but figured that throwing spaghetti at the…
The Outlaws raised the banner for their 2014 title run in their home opener in Denver on Sunday, May 3, 2015, and then went on to defeat the Charlotte Hounds by a score of 15-12. Four different players notched hat tricks for the Outlaws, Greg Melaugh, Eric Law, Jeremy Sieverts, and Drew Snider. Denver Head Coach B. J. O’Hara was worried that the banner raising ceremony would be a…
No disrespect to team President Jim McPhilliamy, but I think we all can agree that in a perfect world the ideal owner for the Charlotte Hounds would be Montgomery Burns if not just for the fact that he could say “release the hounds” before every game. Luckily for Charlotte they don’t need a cartoon tycoon to motivate them to score goals. The Hounds will visit the Mile High City…
When you sit back and think about it MLL is more of an “any given Sunday” type of league than the NFL. If you’re a team that wants to get a runs for its money than the competition in MLL is for you. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of Week 3 were two Week 2 rematches, completing two home-and-home series as Chesapeake took on Florida in Annapolis, and Rochester visited…
On some level rankings are a necessary evil. It makes you wonder is “power” more than just a fitting adjective in these exercises? Unlike college football, for example, where pre- and early season rankings can bias a team’s place in the national conversation in Major League Lacrosse these rankings simply function as an armchair coach’s perspective of where teams sit in regard to the other teams in the league. Just…
The Outlaws claimed a 14-13 victory over the Ohio Machine on Sunday afternoon amidst cold, wet, windy, Midwestern weather in Ohio. Team Bocklet… I mean the Outlaws were paced by Mike Bocklet, who tallied four goals, a hat trick from Jeremy Sieverts, and a dominating performance at the faceoff dot by Anthony Kelly. Bookends Every good story has a beginning, a middle, and an end. Clearly Mike Bocklet got the…
The road to .500 goes through Ohio when the Machine and the Outlaws faceoff in week 2 of the Major League Lacrosse 2015 season. The Machine and the Outlaws renew their rivalry after a pair of thrilling games last year. Denver beat Ohio in the Mile High City to the tune of 14-12 on Star Wars night (May the 4th, get it? GET IT?!). When the Outlaws visited Ohio they…
The Denver Outlaws started their title defense on Sunday night in Boston, but coming up on the losing side of a 16-13 decision surely was not what coach B.J. O’Hara and his team had in mind. It’s worth mentioning again that eight of the players on the Outlaws’ 25 man active roster are playing NLL right now. That’s less of an excuse for the loss than it is context for…
View image | gettyimages.com I’m loathe to call anything after three games a “power” ranking, especially in MLL where the embryonic team of Week 1 tends to metamorphose dramatically by season’s end. With that caveat in place let’s take a look what happened over MLL’s opening weekend. New York Lizards: It’s hard to argue against New York at this point in the season. The Lizards are likely the team…
What can be said about the Denver Outlaws that hasn’t been said already? Ok, don’t answer that question because there are a whole host of unknowns heading into the 2015 campaign. On-field fortunes have been increasing for the Outlaws in recent years. After years of playoff disappointments, most notoriously after their undefeated 2013 regular season, they finally raised the Steinfeld Trophy in triumph last year. The harbinger of change is…