Brandon Miller retired from the National Lacrosse League much like he began his lacrosse career – quietly making an impact and moving on to do great things. And, if it seems like history is repeating itself, that is because it is. It is no longer Miller Time in Philadelphia. Miller first retired after the 2018 season where he’d been with the Toronto Rock for four and a half years after…
The Philadelphia Wings had eight draft picks in Thursday’s National Lacrosse League draft. Thirty-eight per cent of their picks were from Johns Hopkins as the Wings seem to be banking on local connections to support their fan base. Most of their picks also have a great mix of box and field experience. Their first pick was the 16th selection in the draft, the last pick of the first round. They…
Orangeville, Ontario is a small town approximately 80 km (that’s 40 miles for our American friends) outside of Toronto. It is not a huge area, home to around 29,000 people. It is a pretty little town similar in many ways to other Canadian towns. Most people outside of the lacrosse world probably wouldn’t give it a second thought; however, lacrosse greats of the past and the present are changing that….
“It’s hard to hit her when she looks just like you,” a teammate once said to me. “It makes me hit her teammates harder,” I replied. If those lines were heard in a men’s lacrosse game, no one would blink. But they were said in several women’s lacrosse games. And if the old adage is true that girls can be vicious, imagine how it was when you played against someone who…
A quiver holds an archer’s arrows, but a quiver can also be a reaction from panic or fear. Thursday night in the PLL semi-finals Chaos LC made the Archers LC quiver from panic as the number seven seed controlled the entire game. The Archers didn’t have enough arrows in their own quivers to fight back, falling 13-9 to Chaos. Blaze Riorden had another strong game for Chaos, stopping 18 shots….
Much like 2020, today’s game was all Chaos as they defeated Chrome 19-14 in the PLL’s highest scoring battle of the season. “We like being the underdogs,” is what one microphone picked up on the sidelines of Chaos LC. Chaos sent Chrome packing in a win or go home elimination game. Chaos went up 5-4 in the first. However, the second quarter saw them score seven points to the two…
The Whipsnakes move to 3-0 and Chaos drops to 0-3 when the Whipsnakes defeated Chaos 12-7 in group play on Friday evening at Zions Bank Stadium in Herriman, Utah. The Whipsnakes slithered away with the game one goal at a time in what was a selfless attack mode. It didn’t matter who scored the goals for the Whipsnakes as long as they were getting scored. Such spread out and even…
Chrome LC came out shiny in their first win against Chaos on the PLL’s opening day of play at Zions Bank Stadium. Chaos had a commanding lead in the first half but Chrome had an even stronger lead in the second half and walked away with a 13-9 chippy win. With newly developed bad blood between the teams, expect a lot more hitting the next time these two teams face…
It was almost like the theme to Jaws was playing on the big screens in Maryland this afternoon. The Connecticut Hammerheads may be one of the youngest and newest teams in Major League Lacrosse but they rallied behind their team name and hunted down their Bayhawks prey this afternoon. No one would have known this team lacked experience or age watching today’s game. They thoroughly shut down the defending champions in a…
It used to be that, on average, entire professional lacrosse rosters were made up of two groups. One group of professional players (the majority group in Major League Lacrosse) came from Division I colleges and universities in the United States. The second group was made up of outstanding Canadian players without the experience of collegiate Division I play in the United States. It seemed like a player had to fit into…