The first team to be announced in the InLax Lacrosse League is the Winnipeg Prairie Dogs. Winnipeg is a relatively untested market for lacrosse, but has a very passionate sports fanbase. The Prarie Dogs will be playing out of the MTS Centre, home of the Jets. Leading the Prairie Dogs is the team’s recently named captain, Chris White. White has been in the NLL for ten years, most of those…
In a very close and entertaining game the elders finished on top, defeating the players who had entered the league since 2009 by a score of 18-17. Many expected the game to be high scoring, at is was. The scoring started early and never really stopped as the game went along. You’d step away for two seconds, and two goals had been scored. ESPN had issues at the beginning of…
After turning around Ireland’s 0-3 start with a win over Sweden and a thrilling overtime victory against Finland, it was time for the playoff rounds. Â In the play-in game, we would have to get by Slovakia to advance to the quarter-finals. Slovakia is one of the newer national teams on the international scene, and the difference in experience played a big part in the game. Â Ireland’s offense was able to…
June 30, 2012- The MLL All-Star game (ESPN2, ESPN3.com) will host the usual Young Guns vs. Old School format, this time however, the game will be in the beautiful area of Palm Beach, Florida. The Young Guns certainly appear to be an underdog in today’s match-up, but still boast some great players that will need to go their hardest to give the Old School ballers a run for their money….
It is no secret, this year’s All-Star Game was put in Boca Raton for a reason. The MLL is looking to expand, and Florida is a key market they are looking at. The league appears to be on the upswing, two television deals with high end networks, decent attendance, corporate sponsors, and stable operating costs. Commissioner David Gross has stated that the league wants to double in size by 2020,…
The debut of Israel’s men’s national lacrosse team in the European Lacrosse Championships came to an end, as No. 8 Netherlands rolled to an 18-3 quarterfinal win at Amsterdam Bos on Wednesday. Netherlands grabbed an early 2-0 lead, but Elan Daisudov and Ben Bretter answered back for Israel to tie the game at 2-2. Goaltender Hank Altschuler made several impressive saves to preserve the tie after one quarter of play. However, the Dutch scored seven straight…
Coaching overnight lacrosse camps can be exhausting. So I was not very happy when my phone rang at 4:30 in the morning last Wednesday while I was getting precious sleep at a Trilogy Lacrosse camp in Georgia. But you can imagine my surprise when the call turned out to be from the Director of the National Lacrosse Team of Ireland telling me I had been moved from an alternate to…
The Rochester Rattlers will be sending three players down to Boca Raton, Florida this weekend for the 2012 MLL All Star Game. Two of them will be playing for the Young Guns and one for the Old School. Even though the Young Guns have two players, the Old School player has five times the All Star experience over them. Here they are. Starting out with the first Young Gun will…
This morning at 2:00am Canadian lacrosse goalie Chris Sanderson passed away from his battle with brain cancer. Sanderson took a turn for the worse this Thursday after battling the disease for four years. Most people diagnosed with this are given a life expectancy of a year at the most. Sanderson played in the 2010 world games through the disease, and since has undergone several surgeries and this past March he experienced a…
Unlike the usual two hour coach’s conference call, this one was only an hour. First on the call was MLL Commissioner David Gross. He talked about how the first time they did Young Guns versus Old School was in 2005, and it was a great success. This year, he mentioned that some of the guys on the Old School team didn’t realize that they were old. Dave talked about how…