Getting Inside Lacrosse - Analysis of a Successful Power Play

As per my earlier post, I'm going to breakdown one successful power play. I'm going to do this for two reasons. First, I want to learn about the game, and I know there are other fans out there who are similarly interested in lacrosse strategy. Second, I'm hoping that someone who actually knows something about lacrosse will take this idea and turn it into something awesome. With access to HD TV footage, and proper production equipment, the NLL could probably put together some really informative videos to help explain the game.

Getting Inside the National Lacrosse League

There have been some really interesting posts about lacrosse lately. Two of them have been extremely insightful and critical looks at what might be holding lacrosse back from growing and gaining respect. The third, some Tweets from Paul Stewart, have been more exciting for me. Keep reading for my thoughts on all three.

NLL Crystal Ball: Week 8

I went 2-2 last week. When I saw that Graeme had the same picks, I tweeted that we were going .500 on the weekend ... if only I was as prescient at figuring out which 2 games I had wrong! Anyway, I'm up to 15-12 on the season. Thankfully Pilson and Jenner had the same picks, so I'm still up on the entire IL Indoor panel. This week's picks, favouritisms, magic numbers and other numbers after the break.

NLL Crystal Ball: Week 7

I went an impressive 3-1 last week. Let's take a moment to bask in that glory, because it's all downhill from here. I'm at 13-10 on the season, which is one up on Jenner and Pilson, the two best experts over at IL Indoor. I hope no one at IL Indoor gets the idea of copying me, especially Stewart and Shanny who would most certainly drag me down with their terrible luck. My picks, favourites and magic numbers after the break.

Let's Talk about Mental Health

Today is the second annual Let's Talk about Mental Health day. It's a Twitter bomb of slacktivism. The goal is to have a conversation, so, I'll bite, let's have a conversation. One a little longer than 140 characters.

NLL Crystal Ball: Week 6

I went 2-2 last week, which is a bit of a middling pattern I've developed this season. This puts me at 10-9 overall this season; that's one back of Pilson and one up on Jenner and Shanny (and better than all the other IL Indoor experts).

If you aren't on Twitter, you should be, because the Toronto Rock are taking over Twitter, and they are doing it well. Pat Merrill started #dguyproblems up again today, and Josh Sanderson responded with an #oguyproblems. We were also the first to hear Rob Marshall reporting that he was on his way to the hospital for Xrays on his broken foot. I'm glad someone told him that he didn't have to follow us all back, but he might want to reconsider self-reporting injuries. Just saying.

Anyway, in looking at the schedule and records I noticed that it's entirely conceivable that by the end of this weekend we could see six of nine teams sitting with two wins each, and as few as two teams above .500. Hello parity!