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Please tell me there are some lacrosse fans on this board!! I don't really keep up with college, but MLL is coming up in two weeks. The league now has 9 teams with a new team in Atlanta. However, I'm a Charlotte Hounds and Ohio Machine (they came into the league the same time I started following) fan until a team reaches the Lone Star State.
I guess this can be the official thread for the "fastest growing sport in America"?
Lacrosse is a team sport that I am interested in and have not followed. It is gaining exposure.
It certainly is, I suggest you do start getting involved in following the leagues (MLL & NLL)! The NLL is nearing the playoffs. They too have 9 teams but the new commissioner is focused on getting NHL owners behind new expansion teams. He hopes to add 3-4 for the 2018 season. Dallas and Southern California have been heavily speculated, including a return to Edmonton.
We have a team where I live but I know next to nothing about them. Friend of mine has tickets to a future game and he played in High School and on a club team in college so I might tag along with him. I'll also probably tune into a few games on TV.
Lacrosse is an interesting game, it's kind of like Football, Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer all rolled into one
We have a team where I live but I know next to nothing about them. Friend of mine has tickets to a future game and he played in High School and on a club team in college so I might tag along with him. I'll also probably tune into a few games on TV.
Lacrosse is an interesting game, it's kind of like Football, Basketball, Hockey, and Soccer all rolled into one
I'm assuming the Charlotte Hounds? You should try and make some games and help grow the game!
Three weeks into the 2016 MLL season, three teams remain undefeated at 2-0 (Chesapeake, Charlotte, New York). Charlotte was a league-worst 3-11 last year!
The Mann Cup, the Canadian national lacrosse Men's championship trophy was first awarded in 1910. It is solid gold trophy, now valued at about $60,000.
It is still the Canadian national championship tournament, a best of 7 series.
We play two variations of the game....field lacrosse on a grass outdoor field, and box lacrosse played indoors, on a standard hockey rink( 200 feet long by 80 feet wide ).
The 2015 Mann Cup champions were the Vancouver Shamrocks, who defeated the Peterborogh Lakers.
This trophy is for amateur teams, not professionals.
The Toronto Rock are a part of the National Lacrosse League, eastern division.
Here in Canada, lacrosse was a popular "off season " sport for hockey players to keep in shape.
It's origins come from the Aboriginal game of bagattoway. Most popular with the woodland tribes of the Great lakes basin area. It was a form of mock warfare, with teams of more than a hundred on either side. Games lasted all day, and flowed back and forth between villages. The rules were simple, you couldn't strike anyone on the head, anything else was OK. The original lacrosse stick was called " A cross stick " by the French Jesuit missionaries, in the late 16th century in Quebec, and the name stuck. Made of ash, with deer sinew netting they are rare to see now, most are plastic .
I also try to keep up with the NLL. It looks like the league is finally getting on solid footing with their new commissioner and now expansion is become a reality. They relocated the defending champion Edmonton Rush to Saskatoon this past offseason and little Saskatoon has been producing sellouts! But he does hope Edmonton can get a team back, as do I. That'll be one of the first expansion targets.
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