The Toronto Rock kept their playoff hopes alive on Friday night at the Air Canada Centre as they took down the first place Buffalo Bandits 12-9. The Rock took the first game of this weekends home and home series despite their patchwork lineup. Down 7-5 at the half, the Rock rallied for three straight goals in the third and kept the Bandits off the scoresheet to take an 8-7 lead….
NLL Needs More Success Stories Like Saskatchewan in Order to Survive
Since 2005, the average attendance per game in the National Lacrosse League has dropped from 10,236 to a meagre 8,981, only 11 more per game than the 16-year low the league experienced last season. Years upon years of teams choosing to relocate to smaller venues rather than trying to rebuild in places where there used to be success has put the league in a tailspin, losing momentum steadily, even as…
NLL Power Rankings Week 15: Bandits Shuffle to Number One
So far four of the six playoff spots have been secured. Buffalo & New England in the east, and Colorado and Saskatchewan in the west. Colorado or Saskatchewan can clinch the # 1 seed in the west and receive a first round bye if either team sweeps their games this weekend. Calgary and Vancouver are fighting for the third seed. A Calgary win over Vancouver will clinch the final spot…
College Lacrosse Weekend Preview: All Chaos Conference?
With so much drama in the ACC, it’s kinda hard getting into the NCAA Tournament scene. But they, somehow, some way, keep coming up with interesting storylines every single day. I’m no Snoop Dogg, but if you use your imagination and tinker the first four lines of Gin And Juice with ACC references, it’s actually a pretty good summary of the conference’s season. Except Notre Dame, who’s sitting comfortably as…
Evans Strong Showing Leads Black Wolves Again
Well, no Toronto players were injured on Saturday night, but not much else went right for the Rock against the New England Black Wolves at the Air Canada Centre. The Rock went down 14-10 to the Black Wolves, winners of two in a row after defeating the Saskatchewan Rush the night before. The Rock remain tied with Georgia for fourth place in the East. It was a tough test for…
NCAA Bracketology V1: There’s Still Time
Is it too early to start predicting brackets? Some may say yes, others the opposite. Joe Lunardi already has a way too early 2017 NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracketology, and we just got done the hoops tournament last week! Teams don’t know if they’ll lose someone to either the NBA Draft or to transfers or even who they might gain via transfers and commitments. But in lacrosse, we have less than…
Bandits Continue Playoff Race Against Knighthawks
The Buffalo Bandits (9-4) and their Thruway rivals the Rochester Knighthawks (6-7) will face off in the second of three divisional showdowns during the 2016 NLL regular season Saturday night at the First Niagara Center. In their first matchup of the season, the Buffalo Bandits came away with the 13-10 victory at home against the Knighthawks on March 11. Coming up big offensively for the Bandits on the score sheet…
Black Wolves Take on Banged Up Rock
Saturday night the 8-5 New England Black Wolves will pay their first visit of 2016 to the Air Canada Centre to take on the 4-9 Toronto Rock. In their only meeting this season, New England defeated Toronto 17-16 in overtime on Valentine’s Day in Connecticut. New England was led by Shawn Evans (as always) with 12 points while Rob Hellyer led the Rock (also as per usual) with 10 points….
College Lacrosse Weekend Preview: T-Minus 29 Days Until Selection Sunday
We’re starting the final stretch of the season with under a month until Selection Sunday for the NCAA Tournament. Unlike last year, it’s a very wide open field, with only two ACC teams in the top 15 in RPI. Some early Bracketology projections have Notre Dame and Syracuse in, with some even including Virginia. Except for Notre Dame, the ACC is on the bubble for some spots, with UNC and…
Tigers Roar Past Dragons 11-7
Drexel faces Fairfield, while Towson travels to face UMass in CAA action this weekend. This past weekend the Drexel Dragons (4-6) traveled about 100 miles south to face the #10 ranked Towson Tigers (9-1). Unfortunately for the Dragons they fell 11-7. For the first three quarters the Dragons looked as if they would pull off the upset of their season. But a six goal run by the Tigers was the…