2022 World Lacrosse Men’s U21 Championship Recap
On Saturday, Cornell lefty C.J. Kirst scored five goals to lead the United States past Canada 12-10 to win the 2022 World Lacrosse Men’s U21 Championship in Limerick, Ireland. It was the ninth men’s world championship for the U.S. at the junior level, dating back to 1988. Canada dropped its seventh final. The USA and […]
Is the Transition Role Being Implemented in Field Lacrosse?
For indoor lacrosse, the transition position is a staple. With the condensed field size and on the fly substitutions, moving from defense to offense happens in seconds. Zach Currier, Challen Rogers, and Jordan MacIntosh are a few names who have dominated in this role in the NLL. As the PLL’s fourth season is beginning to […]
PLL Assists: Changing the Narrative of Lacrosse
Paul and Mike Rabil had a vision to change the landscape of professional lacrosse in 2018. They have done so by creating a venture-capital-based league that has grown from an initial six teams to now eight. Their tour-based model has brought professional lacrosse from the traditional hotbeds of Baltimore and Long Island to emerging markets […]
LSU Lacrosse Program Overview
The LSU Men’s Lacrosse program brings on a new coach for the 2023 season. After finishing up the 2022 season with 8-5 record, LSU looked to one the most successful high school coaches in the Louisiana by hiring JR Ball. The Maryland native played lacrosse for the Tigers back in the early 80s and has […]
What Happened to UNLV Lacrosse?
There are many Division 1 schools with 20,000+ students that have neither a varsity lacrosse team, nor a club lacrosse team. Most of them have had MCLA teams at one point, but were disbanded for various reasons. MCLA membership has been growing since the COVID-19 pandemic, but there are still plenty of schools that are still […]
The Whipsnakes are the Standard of Excellence
The Whipsnakes have been the most consistent team in the PLL for four years now. They won the first two championships, have played in all three championship games, and had the league’s first two MVPs. With their dominance in the league’s short history, it’s easy to root against the Whipsnakes, but you have to be […]
Ranking the Newly Announced PBLA Team Names
The Professional Box Lacrosse Association recently let the fans vote on the team names for the leagues inaugural seven teams. As expected when letting fans decide anything at all, we had some pretty comical names in the running. Thankfully the PBLA kept a watchful eye on these names and gave us the top seven. The […]
PLL Salt Lake City: A Quint Kessenich Poem
The PLL is progress and innovation. It’s beauty and joy, fire and fury. It’s about character, conflict and chemistry. I was lucky enough to be in Salt Lake City covering the PLL games last weekend. There was lots to see, hear and experience. A cancelled flight. Lyle executes his signature back-handed move. He popularized the maneuver […]
PLL Playoffs Push: Featuring Quint Kessenich, Paul Carcaterra, and Chris Cotter
Summer weather threw a sky whammy at pro lacrosse this past weekend. The PLL was in Denver with a Friday night matchup between the Cannons and Redwoods that was televised on ESPN with Chris Cotter and Paul Carcaterra on the mic. The PLL playoffs are right around the corner with only two more weeks of regular […]
Ranking the PLL Throwback Logos
To go along with the PLL throwback jerseys unveiled last weekend, the league also dropped some old school logos to go along with the throwback weekend. The irony here being that the PLL has only been around since 2018 so there isn’t much history to go off of when unveiling throwback logos. In order to […]
The Return of Jack Kelly for the Redwoods
The goalie position in the PLL is undoubtedly one of the most competitive positions and the hardest position on the field. Even more so, it is rare to see a switch in personnel during the season after a starting goaltender is named. However, this season Jack Kelly has been the man to step up to the […]
Ranking the 2022 PLL Throwback Jerseys
Fans have asked for one thing and one thing only from the PLL since the league was announced in 2018. “Can we please have numbers on the front of the jerseys?” Paul Rabil and his PLL executive committee continued to turn a blind eye to the fans request for nearly four years, that was until […]