View image | gettyimages.com I’m loathe to call anything after three games a “power” ranking, especially in MLL where the embryonic team of Week 1 tends to metamorphose dramatically by season’s end. With that caveat in place let’s take a look what happened over MLL’s opening weekend. New York Lizards: It’s hard to argue against New York at this point in the season. The Lizards are likely the team…
View image | gettyimages.com Opening weekend is in the books and it provided us some fun games and a glimpse into what the season holds. The grippy ball is back in use and this much anticipated return makes the two point shot more achievable. In an effort to make the ball more visible to the television audience last year, the MLL switched for the textured “grippy” ball to a smoother…
View image | gettyimages.com The 2015 Major League Lacrosse season is underway! This year, the regular season begins two weeks earlier than usual. The first four weeks of the schedule has all games played on Sunday’s, which should give the MLL good exposure seen as their indoor counterparts play on Friday and Saturday nights. Also, the league signed a deal to have all games air on ESPN3 with select games…
The Vancouver Stealth kept pace with the surging Calgary Roughnecks in the hunt for the third playoff spot in the NLL’s West Division with a huge 11-9 win over the New England Black Wolves Sunday afternoon. Stealth head coach Dan Perreault said his team’s buy-in showed on Sunday as they fought tooth and nail for a potentially season-saving win. The pressure situation the Stealth thrived under yesterday was a great…
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Brett Hickey was a name not many lacrosse fans knew before 2015. If anything, some fans knew he had been on Vancouver and never panned out. Now, fans who follow the NLL know exactly who Brett Hickey is and what an impact he has made. Hickey is on the Toronto Rock, who are in first place in the east, and have become a scoring juggernaut. That’s a great story in…
The regular season games are starting to wrap up (already?!?) and conference tournaments are starting to take shape. The ACC tournament is almost completely known while the Ivy and Patriot leagues are still very hazy. The ACC will see Notre Dame and North Carolina fighting this week for the chance to play Duke. The loser gets Syracuse. Syracuse will play one the only two teams they lost to while…
The ACC picture became a little bit clearer this weekend. How about UNC? I thought Syracuse played horribly. The attack never really got its passing game to be consistent, although we saw some flashes. Randy Staats looked a little rusty and he and Dylan Donahue missed the cage from point blank several times in the first half. and Bobby Wardwell had a very challenging first half in net before being…
Shayne Jackson had a five goal, six point effort in Saturday’s loss to the Buffalo Bandits. This set a personal best for Jackson, but with the loss, the Swarm are officially eliminated from playoff contention for the second year in a row. To make Saturday even more costly for the Swarm, they lost Callum Crawford to an upper body injury and Jordan Macintosh to a rolled ankle during the contest….
The Boston Cannons opened their 2015 campaign with a win over the Denver Outlaws 15-13. The scoring started out on the Cannons side with the first goal of the season from Rob Emery, the sophomore player out of Virginia. Chris Bocklet tied things up on the Outlaws side just one minute later. By the half it was 8-5 Cannons with much of the offense coming from Boston. Denver’s offense seemed…