2021 PLL Schedule Partially Announced

The 2021 PLL schedule was partially unveiled this week, announcing the league will play 43 games in 11 cities in a tour format.

We might still be waiting on an official 2021 PLL schedule, but the No. 1 opponent is pretty clear at this point: COVID-19.  This week, the Premier Lacrosse League announced a return to the tour format that was the league’s signature (critics, though I’m not one of them, would say gimmicky) format before the pandemic […]

Duke vs Syracuse Lacrosse 2021: You Decide

Heading into the 2021 men's college lacrosse season, it looks like Duke vs Syracuse is the great debate for which team will be the best.

The 2021 men’s college lacrosse season is right around the corner, and Duke vs Syracuse feels like the debate before the games begin. With polls beginning to drop for the 2021 campaign, there seem to be two teams considered above the rest, both hailing from the ACC. The Duke Blue Devils, consensus No. 1 among […]

What Is the Best Lacrosse Game Ever?

It's a tough topic to wrangle, but what's the best lacrosse game ever? We took a dive into some of the greatest contents the sport has seen.

What is the best lacrosse game ever? I took to Twitter to find out. Awhile ago, I asked a simple question via tweet: What are the best three lacrosse games you’ve ever seen? It is worth mentioning that I generally assume most of my tweets will be ignored. That’s quite a fair assumption since I […]

Men's D1 Lacrosse Preseason Top 20: Before the Schedules

The college lacrosse season is finally approaching, and while we don't have schedules or full rosters yet, here's an early preseason top 20.

Well, it’s January. We do not have any idea who plays who. We do not have any idea when most teams are going to start playing. But did those facts, or lack of facts, stop the preseason Nike/US Lacrosse top 20 from dropping? No, sir, it did not. Therefore, neither is it going to stop […]

Last Week in Lacrosse – Dec. 22-28, 2020

In LASt week in lacrosse, we catch you up on some of the news of the week in the sport, plus a rundown of our content from the last 7 days.

You might not have been fully locked in to the lacrosse world with the holidays in our midst. Or, maybe you spent the last week diving deep in lacrosse and already know everything there is to know. If that’s you, then this post might be redundant. But if you need any sort of refresher, then […]

Tyson Bell Went From Being Tutored to Tutoring

Tyson Bell

Tyson Bell intended to play at Syracuse. When he was finishing his high school days at Everest Academy, a number of colleges came calling for his lacrosse services. Syracuse was one of those schools. Syracuse eventually joined a long list of programs to send an invitation to the product of St. Catharines, Ontario, and it […]

Syracuse Stingers – Forgotten Teams of Lacrosse History

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Syracuse Stingers: We Hardly Knew Ye Only lasting one season of play in the original NLL, the Syracuse Stingers had an exciting start in 1974 only to take a bumpy ride to a rough ending. Excitement around the Stingers instantly surged after the league’s initial player draft, selecting one of the most electrifying rosters at […]

Andy Towers Was a Beast in College, Brown ’93

Andy Towers Was a Beast in College, Brown '93

Before he was a Premier Lacrosse League pioneering head coach for Chaos LC, Andy Towers was an absolute mad man at Brown. Arguably one of the greatest players of all-time at Brown history, Andy Towers finished his career in 1993 with 150 career goals, three All-American honors, and a trip to three NCAA Tournament appearances. […]

Mikey Powell, Syracuse Get Revenge on Princeton – 2002 National Championship

Mikey Powell, Syracuse Get Revenge on Princeton - 2002 National Championship

Turn the clock back 18 years to the day. It’s 2002 and we’re tuning in for the third-straight NCAA DI National Championship meeting between Syracuse and Princeton. The Orange took round one, followed by Prince evening the series in 2001. Mikey Powell is now in his sophomore season and on the verge of winning his […]

Fan Superlative Awards – NCAA Lacrosse Championship Weekend

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What other sport truly has a holiday weekend? Lacrosse is fortunate enough to center our game’s biggest stages around the same few days each year, giving the community one piece of stability it has always longed for. Without the NCAA Division I Men’s Final Four, Division II and III Men’s National Championship, and the Division […]