The Significance of the History of the Philadelphia Wings

July 12, 2014

There have been far more teams that have folded/relocated in the National Lacrosse League than there haven’t. Currently, those teams are Rochester, Buffalo and Calgary. Colorado is formerly Washington and Baltimore. Toronto comes from Ontario. Edmonton is formerly Ottawa and Syracuse. And Vancouver comes from Everett, WA, San Jose, CA and Albany, NY. The Colorado Mammoth are the oldest franchise as the original Baltimore Thunder. However, the Philadelphia Wings were…

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FIL: USA Takes on Australia

July 12, 2014

Photo Credit:  Di Miller It’s Day Three of the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park, in Commerce City, Colorado.  Team USA who were the World Champions in the 2010 FIL games, will face-off against Team Australia who placed third in 2010.  Both teams were victorious in their opening games, USA defeated Canada 10-7; and Australia took their game against Japan into triple over-time with Australia winning…

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FIL Day Two: Israel Impresses, Finland Pitches Shutout

July 12, 2014

Photo Credit: Larry Palumbo Yesterday in the FIL tournament teams made their first marks of the tournament including impressive showings from Israel, Finland and the Iroquois. Netherlands 19 China 4 Scott Janssen led Netherlands with six goals to lead the Dutch past first year China. In their first ever game internationally China only could put up four goals. Tyler Buchan scored four of them. Switzerland 10 Latvia 5 Switzerland opened…

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FIL: Canada and England Look to Rebound

July 12, 2014

Photo Credit: Di Miller Team Canada (0-1) and Team England (0-1) will search for their first victory at the 2014 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships when the two nations meet Saturday, July 12 at 10 p.m ET (8 p.m. MT). Canada previously dropped a tournament opening matchup versus rival Team USA, losing the game 10-7. While there were lingering questions surrounding the Canadian squad entering the tournament, offensive…

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Philadelphia Wings Plan to Relocate

July 11, 2014

Ownership of the Philadelphia Wings, one of nine teams in the National Lacrosse League (NLL), plan to re-locate the franchise for the 2015 season.  The organization is currently taking part in discussions with a new strategic partner for re-location, pending NLL Board of Governor approval. Fans that have placed deposits or paid in full for the 2015 season will be issued a full refund in the same manner in which…

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Let the Games Begin: USA Rolls Past Canada

July 11, 2014

Photo Credit:  Di Miller On July 10, 2014, it was opening day for the 2014 FIL World Lacrosse Championships at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park in Commerce City, Colorado.  Lacrosse fans from across the world have been waiting for this day since the 2010 when Team USA came away World Champions.  This year, there would be a record-breaking 38 teams participating in the games. Opening Ceremonies started with each nation taking…

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China Blog: Year One of Chinese Program

July 11, 2014

Co-writen by Matthew Bailey Hi, I am Tyler Buchan with China lacrosse. Its been a long journey for us, but our team has finally come together in Denver. It took some time to find a efficient way to break the communication barrier, as we all come from different parts of the world. As a majority of the team speaks mainly Mandarin and only a little bit of English, this was…

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FIL Day Two: Iroquois Opens Against England

July 11, 2014

Day two of the FIL tournament is here with the United States defeating Canada yesterday 10-7. Today the rest of the countries kick off, including the Iroquois. Early Games 10am- Netherlands vs China 10:30am- Latvia vs Switzerland 11am- Italy vs Norway 11am- Bermuda vs France 11am- Wales vs Russia Game to Watch: Netherlands vs China. The Netherlands are a decent team and it should be interesting to see where China is…

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Germany Blog: Scrimmaging Latvia

July 10, 2014

The German National team camp started on July 1 at Colorado College where we have had two-a-days since. Being that I had an MLL game July 3 I was not able to make it out to Colorado until July 5. I landed that night where I was informed we scrimmaged BYU and pulled away with a 7-5 victory. My first day of practice on July 6 we had breakfast at…

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MLL At the Break: Cannons Have an Opportunity

July 10, 2014

It has been just over two months since the Major League Lacrosse season began and the Boston Cannons are currently sitting in fourth place behind the Outlaws, Rattlers, and Lizards. Despite being in a position where the postseason is a possibility, the road to the fourth seed has not necessarily been the easiest one. In fact, inconsistency has been the story of Boston’s season. For the Cannons, things started off…

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