Coverage of the Colorado Mammoth, Denver Outlaws, and Denver University.
Photo Credit: Di Miller On Sunday June 29, the Denver Outlaws (7-1) head to Rochester, NY to play the second place Rochester Rattlers (5-3) at Sahlen’s Stadium. The last time the two teams faced off was in Denver on May 17 when Denver beat the Rattlers by the score of 14-8. Rochester hasn’t lost at home this season, and they want to keep it that way. Denver on the other…
Photo Credit: Di Miller On June 18, the MLL held their weekly Coaches Conference Call and Denver Outlaws Head Coach B.J. O’Hara was asked about the team’s 9-6 win over the Chesapeake Bayhawks. Coach O’Hara said: “Well, I think sometimes you can get sidetracked a little bit in preparing. We were made aware on Friday that Chesapeake was going to be missing some guys—among them Brendan Mundorf, Michael Evans, and…
The Continental Indoor Lacrosse League announced their teams for 2014 yesterday, and now their schedule is out. The season gets underway with Grand Rapids facing their rival Chicago Outlaws, and the next week each team is in action, all in Grand Rapids. The defending champion Colorado Sabertooths play four games on the road. Saturday, August 2 Grand Rapids at Chicago, 6:00 PM Saturday, August 9 (at Grand Rapids, MI) Lansing at…
Season four of the Continental Indoor Lacrosse League (CILL) is set to begin play this summer. The United States-based Senior box lacrosse organization will see nine teams in competition for 2014. The “original four” clubs, which include Chicago Outlaws, Columbus Brew, Grand Rapids Dragonfish and Milwaukee Marauders, all return for another campaign. They are joined by the two-time defending CILL Cup champion Colorado Sabertooths, Detroit Coney Dogs and Pittsburgh Octane….
Curtis Dickson is a household name for NLL fans, becoming an elite scorer with the Calgary Roughnecks in the past four years. He is now playing field lacrosse at the pro level with the Denver Outlaws, and we spoke with him about what the biggest differences are, and the 7-1 start for Denver.
The Denver Outlaws have again proven to be one of the most difficult teams to play in 2014. Boasting a league best 7 win and 1 loss record, the Outlaws have heavily relied on veteran talent as well as second and third year players. With all the depth of the Outlaws roster some holes still needed to be filled, so it was up to the rookies to rise up to…
Photo Credit: Di Miller The Denver Outlaws (7-1) hosted the Chesapeake Bayhawks (2-6) at Sports Authority Field at Mile-High on June 21 in front of 6,008 die-hard fans for Paws in the Park Night. It was also “Outlaw Cancer” night. The players wore custom made helmets with pink cancer ribbons, and played in honor of family members and friends who have survived cancer or lost their battle to this awful…
Photo Credit: Di Miller On June 18, the MLL held their weekly Coaches Conference Call and Denver Outlaws Head Coach B.J. O’Hara was asked about the Outlaws being 6-1 and two games ahead in the MLL standings. Coach O’Hara said: “I guess we’re as comfortable as we could be—with the amount of talent in the league and the competitiveness, you never get to comfortable. We’re just the next game away…
The National Lacrosse League has announced three finalists for the 2014 NLL Rookie of the Year award. Edmonton Rush forward Robert Church, Minnesota Swarm forward Logan Schuss and Colorado Mammoth goaltender Dillon Ward were the top trio of rookie vote recipients for their play this season. Church finished third among NLL rookies in points (52) and assists (31), tied for third in goals (21), second in power play goals…
Boy were there some big performances this week in the MLL! As is customary on our website, we nominate our three stars for this past week’s action and there were some tough decisions to make. This week’s action featured some ridiculous stat lines on offense with several players scoring six or more points. With many nominees, who were the lucky three who earned this week’s honors? First Star: Ben Hunt,…