MLL: Cannons, Hounds, Bayhawks – Who They’ll Be in May

January 29, 2014

With MLL Draft over, teams are now in a dead period in the sport as they anticipate the beginning of training camps and await their newcomers from the recent collegiate draft. However, since the college season has officially begun and drafted players are now competing in preseason practice, they will not join their teams until some time during May. So how will each team look when their college draftees join…

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Canadian Lacrosse League: Southwest Cyclops Preview

The newest team in the Canadian Lacrosse League, the SouthWest Cyclops may not have a permanent home, but Head Coach and General Manager Jeremy Tallevi has already created a team identity for his new club. “We have a solid mix of players who will play a fast-paced and exciting brand of lacrosse,” said Tallevi in a CLax press release. “I know we can play with any team in the league,…

January 29, 2014
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NLL: Scheduling Woes

Players and teams in the NLL have been victims of scheduling for years due to the league’s popularity being less than other big name sports (football, basketball, baseball). Spectators are more aware of it this year, especially after the Mammoth had a huge weekend of travel and only four hours of sleep. On the weekend of January 10-12: The Colorado Mammoth had a Friday game in Calgary and then a…

January 28, 2014
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Maryland Terps: Turtling Along

2014 NCAA Season Preview: University of Maryland (Men’s)   The University of Maryland Men’s Lacrosse team hasn’t played a meaningful game since last May, a game in which they fell 8-16 to perennial contender Cornell in the NCAA First Round. Their next meaningful game is less than two weeks away when they welcome Mount St. Mary’s Saturday, February 8 to College Park. The Terps are coming off last year’s 10-4…

January 28, 2014
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USA Greats: First Cars, Now Lacrosse

With about five months to go until the FIL World games in Denver, Team USA put its remaining 50 or so guys to the test in the Blue & White Champion Challenge down in Florida. They showed up with fresh hair cuts to hopefully help impress Coach Richie Meade. Fans could hear Coach Dave Pietramala all the way back at Homewood Field and the players put on a good show….

January 28, 2014
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NCAA Outlook: Cornell Big Red

After a hectic offseason that saw the cancellation of the all fall events and the firing of a head coach, the Cornell Big Red lacrosse team will look towards the spring season to start anew. An investigation regarding reports of hazing led to the Cornell Athletics Department  suspending the men’s lacrosse team on September 13, 2013. Despite being unable to take part in fall ball, the Big Red’s turmoil would…

January 28, 2014
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Net Impact: Can the Knighthawks Three-Peat?

Four games into the 2014 NLL season, the Rochester Knighthawks are sitting in second place in the East Division with a 3-1 record. It is still early in the 18-game schedule and lots can happen between now and the playoffs, but does it look like the Knighthawks can win an unprecedented third Champion’s Cup in a row? The early indicators are good. In spite of suffering their first loss of…

January 28, 2014
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Bandits’ Domination of the NLL Frontier

A lot can happen in the course of nine months. In between the Buffalo Bandits last home game on April 20 2013 (where they were eliminated from the playoffs by Rochester) to the current success they are achieving five games into their current 2014 season, a major feeling of change was definitely in the air. During the off-season, the Bandits let go of head coach Darris Kilgour and acquired the 2013…

January 27, 2014
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National College Athletic Association v Men’s Collegiate Lacrosse Association

I had never heard of MCLA lacrosse before I came on board with ILWT. Natural curiosity led me to do some investigation into why I had recently learned there were hundreds of college varsity lacrosse programs and approximately 30 percent are NCAA sanctioned. Repeatedly, lacrosse is the fastest growing sport in the world. The question in this instance is not what is keeping the NCAA from sanctioning MCLA teams. The…

January 27, 2014
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