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…
Stealth Hurt Black Wolves Playoff Dreams
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…
Videos: Manny, Seibald, Emala Recap Cannons Win
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Colin Doyle Will Be Back Soon
Toronto Rock all-time leading scorer Colin Doyle is close to making a return to the lineup and will likely play in one of the team’s final two regular season games. Doyle tore his rotator cuff last summer and required surgery to repair the tear. The recovery timeline was originally thought to be long enough that the 17-year NLL veteran would miss the entire 2015 NLL season. “We got to this…
Brett Hickey’s Emergence Into an NLL Star
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…
NCAA Power Rankings: April 13
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…
Simmons: ACC Picture Clearer
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…
Swarm Eliminated Despite Jackson’s Big Game
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….
Lehigh Hands Stony Brook Third Loss
The Lehigh men’s lacrosse team jumped out to a 7-3 halftime lead and fought off Stony Brook’s early second-half charge to win its second straight one-goal thriller over a nationally-ranked foe, 12-11 on a sun-splashed Sunday afternoon. Senior Dan Taylor led the offense with seven points (two goals, career-high tying five assists), his fifth straight game with five or more points, while junior Reid Weber posted five points behind four…
Analysis: Cannons Look Sharp In Win
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…