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Thursday, June 13th, 2013
The National Lacrosse League has announced the first-ever NLL All-Green Team. The players were selected by their respective teams to serve as ambassadors for green initiatives for their leadership qualities both on and off the field along with their commitment to making a difference in their team's local community while ...
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2013
Remember that friend that always beat you at video games? You could be on your 10th game in a row of Mario Kart or NBA Jam and they are 10-0 but you still want just one more game. Just one more game so you can prove to yourself that you ...
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Tuesday, June 11th, 2013
So perhaps it wasn't all that surprising to see Darris Kilgour relieved of his duties as coach of the National Lacrosse League's Buffalo Bandits. Of course, it leaves the Bandits looking for a new bench boss, not to mention keeping the wheels of the rumor mill greased. So that's the ...
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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
Right off the bat I have to throw myself under the bus and point out how important fact checking is. Even though a lot of time was spent identifying and verifying the Alberta talent that was playing junior A lacrosse in BC the year the Edmonton Miners hosted the ...
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
Back in December when training camps wrapped, I listened to chatter of teams not wanting to peak too soon or essentially place a high value on the coming National Lacrosse League regular season. The 2012 championship had been won by the 7-9 Rochester Knighthawks, plus recent past had been littered ...
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Tuesday, May 28th, 2013
If you have been waiting for Alberta to take the next step on the national lacrosse scene, take a number, there’s a lineup. This season is the 10-year anniversary of the province first competing for the Minto Cup under the outgoing format where provincial champions from Ontario, B.C. and Alberta ...
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Thursday, May 23rd, 2013
Following the early success of Paul Rabil in 2009, many teams jumped on the American bandwagon of developing US field players. With the reduction in preseason training camps and the loss of US-based National Lacrosse League teams, we have seen that trend reversed. If it wasn’t for Johnny Mouradian and ...
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Tuesday, May 21st, 2013
It started back in early February and here we are at the end of May. That's 15 long and teasingly playful weeks of our National Lacrosse League Girl of the Week contest. And what it's come down to is one champion, who is to be crowned the NLL Girl of ...
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Monday, May 20th, 2013
The National Lacrosse League season has come and gone and what remains to be valued for an entirety is the awards levied on the performers for the 2013 campaign. Some award winners would be regarded as obvious and others not so much, nothing out of the ordinary here. Award decisions ...
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Friday, May 17th, 2013
It all gets started tonight for the Western Lacrosse Association. And like any new season, there are plenty of questions. Some answers will take longer to realize than others, but that's half the fun of being a fan, right? Can the Langley Thunder win their third straight regular-season title and ...
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