The Team That Changed Lacrosse The New York Times “The 1983 Orange opened the door to an era. Their wide-open attack — epitomized by an electrifying comeback to claim the championship against Johns Hopkins — helped to popularize a charismatic style that would be carried on by such Syracuse greats as the Gait and Powell brothers.â€
NCAA Gave Duke an Unfair Shot philly.com Many thought the only just ending to the 2008 NCAA championship would have been Duke University winning, to provide closure for the hardships endured 2 years ago after false rape accusations and a rogue North Carolina prosecutor left the program in turmoil.
Syracuse wins NCAA lacrosse championship New York Daily News Syracuse beat Hopkins 13-10 in the NCAA final on Monday, dethroning the defending national champions and becoming the first school to win its 10th men's lacrosse title. The Orange improved to 3-2 in championship games against Johns Hopkins.
A French history museum dedicated to the World War II D-Day landings is set to unveil the largest exhibit to date on another event that changed the world: the September 11, 2001 attacks.
June 08, 2008
I've gone to my farm in Kentucky for the weekend. It's a great place to relax, do a little hard physical labor, and forget about the rest of the world. If you don't have such a place, I highly suggest you get one.
In the meantime, here's a little something that I found for you to read with your morning coffee.
See you on Monday.
J. Peterman
From The Wall Street Journal:
It's 208 miles from Garden City, N.Y., to Foxboro, Mass., but it took Bob Stevenson and a carload of his high-school lacrosse buddies about 35 years to get here.
Mr. Stevenson and his coterie of fellow 53-year-olds -- Roger Rydell, Roger Hueglin, and John Snodgrass -- grew up on Long Island playing lacrosse, first in high school and then in college. Careers scattered them across the country, but as they married and had families their children started playing lacrosse, they started coaching, and they created leagues where there had been none.
This close-knit group of friends is symbolic of the small network of former players who have not only kept lacrosse going but have made it one of the fastest-growing sports in the country. Their long efforts paid off at this year's NCAA Lacrosse Championships, which saw the Syracuse Orangemen win their ninth title in front of a record crowd of 48,970 for the championship game and 145,828 over the three-day tournament at Gillette Stadium in Foxboro.
Once confined to the elite precincts of New England boarding schools and the Ivy League, high-school and club teams are sprouting up in such unlikely places as Texas, Illinois and Florida. According to the best estimates, there are about 300,000 kids playing lacrosse today. This has created a bottleneck in the NCAA, where there's room for only about 10,000 players in Division I, II and III. With the NCAA predicting that lacrosse will be its next money-making sport, many schools are thinking about converting club teams to intercollegiate squads.
Share the Eye:
USILA All Americans usila.org In absence of a professional entity until only recently, excellence in our game has been measured and identified largely by its NCAA champions and All-American players.
Leveille Wins Lowe's Award SU Athletics Syracuse attackman and team captain Mike Leveille (Delmar, N.Y.) was selected as the winner of the 2008 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award in the men’s lacrosse division.
85 Advance in Tryouts LAX Power US Lacrosse has announced the list of players who have advanced to the second round of tryouts for the U.S. women's national team.
still thinking about today...
Spinner and ExPat: Thanks for your thoughts on the previous post. You both are on my "Honor Roll".
To: Capt Neptune,
Thank you.
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Lacrosse is easy to watch. I'm not one for team sports but lacrosse has an air of excitement to it. I've also watched (on TV) arena football and indoor soccer. These are more exciting versions of the main sport.
Although, watching the Tour de France is also thrilling when you see the leaders fight for the finish line. Well, I''m a cyclist so I get excited about such things.
Spinner said...
There is a Lacrosse sport outfitting store very near me in suburban Louisville and I really don't understand how it keeps in business. I never see anything in the paper about matches or any lacrosse news. Soccer has certainly swept the country in a generation, so maybe this will too.
ExPat:
When our son swam, he became a distance swimmer and I can tell you, there is nothing more boring than to be a supportive parent and watch your son swim up and down the pool 66 times.
Lovey said...
Lacrosse camp.
/Boys/ lacrosse camp.
I was the only girl for a week in 100 degree heat.
"Oh, girls are usually either fast or have good hand-eye coordination, you can play goalie!"
So... many... bruises.
Spinner said...
Okay, Lovely, so you are of this new generation and play Lacrosse. And it sounds like you are like those females that were the first to play little league a gen. ago. They must seem to be old hat to you, and your kids will not think it a big deal that you played lacrosse... and goalie at that. Congrats for pushing the system.
To Lovey,
Congratulations on being a lacrosse goalie. My oldest son (the "punk") loves ice hockey and plays on his girl friend's company team. They have a 12 game season.
Wat to go!
My favorite TV show of all time is "Gilligans Island". Mr Howell had a nick name for his wife...."Lovey". Just a thought.
Our son played LaCrosse in high school. It was really fun to watch and seemed the perfect sport for kids in the rampaging hormone phase of life and fit in perfectly with the mens sana in corpore sano philosophy of the school. What a great sport.
Nordo said...
I can certainly attest to the fever of LAX spreading across the nation....if Columbus, Ohio, is any example. We just returned home a few hours from there, where my 12 year-old son played for three days as part of a Southwest Ohio all-star team.
There, the boys played against teams from all over the state. As one who never picked up a stick, I find Lacrosse a great blend of many sports. In it can be found the fundamentals of soccer, basketball and football, to name a few. It truly is one of the great hybrids of sport available....and lot's of fun to watch. That helps us sideline dwellers immensely.
We finished runner up, by the way.
Spinner said...
Congrats to you son and his team, Nordo!
Lovey said...
Spinner: It was actually loads of fun. I didn't feel like I was "breaking down barriers", as the same place was offering a girls camp [I wasn't so much into skirts and... not hitting, however.] I was a tomboy growing up.
But I'll never forget making inappropriate jokes with the boys at water breaks, smelling like something dead and learning the proper way to hit someone with a metal stick as the girls stood around, missing the ball and not bothering to run after it.
Capt Neptune: In recent years people have been pointing that out to me [as I go by Lovey in the real world]. The more popular reference is the cubs coach [although he spells his Lovie]. The name is really my middle name [well, one of them] with a 'y' at the end [yes, I can actually say "Love's my middle name!"]. I simply hate my real first name and have gone by Lovey since pre-school.