Coverage of the Colorado Mammoth, Denver Outlaws, and Denver University.
The Colorado Mammoth announced on Thursday that the team has removed the ‘interim’ title from its coaching trio and signed Pat Coyle, Chris Gill and Dan Stroup to two-year contracts. The former Mammoth players were hired in early March and led the team to a winning record and a postseason berth. “Pat, Chris and Dan did a phenomenal job down the stretch this past season, and got buy-in from players…
This past weekend the MLL returned to action after a week break due to the FIL Championships. While the FIL Championships started to wind down, teams around the league started to gear up for the last quarter of the season. With many of their players playing for various teams, several rookies made their debuts or stepped up for their teams in big ways. Here is the week in review for…
Photo Credit: Di Miller On July 23, the MLL held their weekly Coaches Conference Call and Denver Outlaws Head Coach B.J. O’Hara was asked about the change of goalies in the game against the Florida Launch on July 20. Coach O’Hara said: “Obviously that was a contingency that we had talked about before the game. Goalie Jesse Schwartzman was coming off a long two weeks where he played awfully well,…
Photo Credit: Di Miller As the World Lacrosse Games 2014 have come to a conclusion, with the cloud of lacrosse memories still fresh in my mind. It is time to give my shout outs to those that showed great honor to the creator the past 10 days. Goalie of the Tournament: Dillon Ward of Canada for his outstanding play all tournament long as well as his outstanding effort in the…
Photo Credit: Di Miller On Sunday July 20, the Denver Outlaws (8-3) hosted the Florida Launch (4-7) at Sports Authority Field at Mile High in front of 7,136 faithful fans. It was the last regular-season home game and the fans were ready to see their Outlaws in action. The 2014 World Lacrosse Championships had just ended the night before, and many of the fans and teams from the World’s were…
The Denver Outlaws lost at home for the first time since 2012, and after the game we discussed it with defenseman Lee Zink.
Photo Credit: Di Miller The Denver Outlaws (7-3) hosted the Boston Cannons (5-5) at Sports Authority Field at Mile-High on July 4. The Outlaws had 29,718 loyal fans in attendance for their Annual July 4 Fireworks show, the best in Denver. Chris Bocklet #10, Attack was back in the line-up after missing the last three games due to an injury suffered from an illegal cross-check; but Denver would be without…
Is it fair to say he is the hometown hero? Perhaps not yet, but Eric Law of the Denver Outlaws is quickly rising to that stage. The son of Larry and Linnea, Eric was born in Centennial, Colorado in 1991. Eric attended Arapahoe High School and played varsity lacrosse all four years while in school. As a senior, Eric helped the Arapahoe Warriors to a state championship and a…
Photo Credit: Di Miller On July 2, the MLL held their weekly Coaches Conference Call and Denver Outlaws Head Coach B.J. O’Hara was asked about the team’s loss on the road to the Rochester Rattlers. Coach O’Hara said: “It was a tough opponent as we expected. They came out firing; they had a lot of energy. I thought we were a little flat—I thought we were a little flat going…
The Denver Outlaws suffered their second loss of the season as they fell to the second place Rochester Rattlers 19-14. Denver opened the scoring with a goal from Jeremy Sieverts, but proceeded to trail for the rest of the game. Rochester scored seven straight goals in between the first and second quarter to take a 7-1 lead. Dave Lawson scored three of those goals while three rookies, Jordan Wolf, Mark Cockerton…