Stat of the Week: NCAA Week 1
Stat of the Week is a new series this year for Lacrosse All Stars and is going to be an ongoing collaboration with our good friend Zack Capozzi over at Lacrosse Reference. If you are unfamiliar with Zack’s work, he has been building an incredible resource for lacrosse analysts over the past few years. With […]
Weekly Rankings: NCAA DI Men’s Preseason Ballots
Once again, our friends over at Inside Lacrosse have asked us to take part in their weekly Men’s Media Poll rankings, so you have another year of both Nick Zoroya & Ryan Conwell representing Lacrosse All Stars. Media Polls like this are fun because when it comes down to it, the more the merrier! With […]
What Is Behind the Albany Firewolves Turnaround?
As the 2021 Calendar year was winding down and the NLL delayed games due to COVID-19 concerns, few teams had as many question marks around them as the Albany Firewolves. With sky high expectations leading into this season following a relocation and rebranding from New England, the Firewolves were 0-2 and had just suffered a […]
Anatomy Of A Lacrosse Game Winner
There is no better feeling than watching a lacrosse game winner unfold. The ending of this past weekend’s game between the Georgia Swarm and Philadelphia Wings was absolutely wild. The Wings seemingly had everything in hand to walk away with a close but solid win. After Matt Rambo missed an empty netter on their final […]
2022 Lacrosse: What To Be Excited About
With 2022 and another year of lacrosse nearly upon us, we’ve already taken a look at 22 predictions for the new year, but I wanted to take things in a slightly different direction. As fun as predictions are, it’s also fun to think about what’s coming up that you can get excited for. Now, as […]
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 […]
What Do We Know After NLL Week 2?
The NLL is back in a big way, and with Week 2 over and two weeks of action under our belts, we can take a look at what we have learned so far. Are we crowning a champion yet? Absolutely not! But there has been enough lacrosse played at this point to let some decent […]
Best NCAA DI Men’s Lacrosse Tournament Runs of All Time
The NCAA DI Men’s Lacrosse Tournament began in 1971 and has undergone immense changes since its start. We’ll soon be more than 50 years removed from the first tournament, and we’ve seen some incredible lacrosse and some incredible runs in that time. But what are the tournament’s best runs of all time? There are a […]
Five Reasons to be Excited for This NLL Season
The NLL officially starts its 2021-22 season this Friday, and to say it’s been a long time coming would be an understatement. When you go back to how the world looked in March 2020 before the NLL season was suspended compared to how it looks today, very little is the same in the professional sports […]
Are There More Americans in the NLL?
The NLL is growing, and good portion of its growth is happening in the United States. The league has long been relatively short on Americans, but are there more in the NLL now than before? Going back to 1987, the NLL has never had 14 teams like it will in the upcoming 2021-22 season. Back […]
Albany FireWolves Begin Life Ready to Compete
The Albany FireWolves will play their first season in their new city in the 2021-22 campaign, and it has a different feel to when the organization last hopped locations. Back in 2014, the Philadelphia Wings announced that their long tenure in Philly was over – the franchise was moving to the Mohegan Sun to become […]
Goalie U: Who Has Produced the Best Goalies?
Welcome to something special: Position U. In this six-part series, your favorite college lacrosse lover, Ryan Conwell, will break down the NCAA DI men’s programs that can consider themselves the best at producing a given position in recent history. First, let’s get into who produces the best lacrosse goalies, a.k.a. Goalie U. When trying to […]