All or Nothing: The NLL Teams Winless or Undefeated So Far
At this point in the NLL season, we’re heading into a league-wide bye week, and all teams have now played at least two games. Nobody is hitting the proverbial panic button on the season just yet, and we’re not crowning champions either, but it’s still impossible to ignore the handful of teams with a goose […]
22 Lacrosse Predictions for 2022
We’re coming up to the end of 2021, and we’ll soon have a fresh year of lax in front of us. But you can’t wait to watch what will happen, you need to know now. So, we have some 2022 lacrosse predictions for you – 22 to be exact. New NCAA champions, the first full […]
Dhane Smith Catch Up: Recapping the Coverage
Dhane Smith has been a prominent feature in Lax All Stars coverage for the last week and two weeks ago as we looked into his history in lacrosse, his experience in Buffalo, his multisport lifestyle and more. To wrap up two total weeks of Dhane Smith mania, we’ve put it all in one place for […]
Dhane Smith Embraces Golf & Tennis in Lacrosse Hiatus
Dhane Smith is a multisport athlete. This is something that’s known – his football and hockey histories are documented, and Lax All Stars previously looked into how his family’s multi-sport background helped propel him into professional lacrosse. But football and hockey have fell by the wayside years ago in favor of lacrosse. How is Smith […]
Born for the Bandits – Thank You, Buffalo
In 2002, the Buffalo Bandits drafted my cousin, Billy Dee Smith, with the No. 3 overall pick. I was a 9-year-old boy in Kitchener, Ontario, who immediately became the biggest Buffalo fan there was. I grew up watching Billy Dee suit up for Buffalo. I always wanted to be a professional box lacrosse player like […]
Multisport Family Molded Dhane Smith into Lacrosse All-Star
Dhane Smith wouldn’t be a professional lacrosse star now if he hadn’t been a multi-sport athlete then. As a kid in Kitchener, Ontario, Smith played everything under the sun, though lacrosse, hockey and football were his main three. He picked up lacrosse at age 3 and hockey at 5, then put a greater emphasis on […]
Dhane Smith Turns Malice to Motivation, a Black Athlete Succeeding in White Crowds
Dhane Smith belongs. When he led Team Canada as an assistant captain to the gold medal at the 2019 World Indoor Lacrosse Championships, he belonged. When he won NLL MVP in 2016, the first Black player to make that mark, and set league records for single-season goals and points, he belonged. And when he was […]
NLL Lacrosse Arenas – Where Every Team Plays!
When this coronavirus mess finally passes, who is down for the ultimate NLL lacrosse arena roadtrip? It’s only a rough 7,580 miles from Scotiabank Centre in Halifax to Pechanga Arena in San Diego if we hit every door on the way by. That’s only 119 hours of windshield staring. A mere 19 states and seven […]
John Tavares: Soul to the Goal by Richard L. Jacob – Lacrosse Book Reports
John Tavares: Soul to the Goal by Richard L. Jacob, Ph.D. is a quick read at less than 100 pages chronicling the life of the greatest indoor lacrosse player of all time.
Corey Small, Eric Penney: Lacrosse Classified
On this week’s edition of the Lacrosse Classified podcast, after a weekend in Vegas for both Jake & Evan — by which some miracle Jake survived — we put the issue of whether a future NLL expansion team in Vegas will work in our G Wilson Construction Under Review segment. Corey Small and Eric Penney […]
John Tavares, Ryan Benesch: Lacrosse Classified
On this week’s edition of Lacrosse Classified, we get right into our G Wilson Construction Under Review segment as we tackle the Dane Dobbie suspension. We also get into our Stampede Tack‘s #WhoYaGott and Who We Had. John Tavares and Ryan Benesch join us on the show, plus full recaps of Week 2 of the […]
GURTLER – BANDITS OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 2019-20 SEASON AS TRAINING CAMP OPENS
