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I want to wish the most sincere congratulations to our man Paul Tutka for winning an unprecedented second straight Tom Borrelli Award for National Lacrosse League Writer of the Year.

He could not deserve this award more, in terms of talent, passion, drive and dedication. Bottom line: he not only puts in herculean effort to populate NLLInsider.com with cutting-edge, expert analysis but he continues to do it and press out and come up with new ideas on a weekly basis.

(I saw Teddy’s post on this subject today and wondered if two in a row was overkill but if Tutka can win two in a row, then he deserves two posts in a row.)

Tuts definitely has a unique voice, but it’s one he’s perfected for this setting and one that fits the content perfectly in my opinion. It’s edgy and different, and therefore takes all the more confidence and knowledge to pull off. If you’re writing the way he does, you need to know your stuff and you need to be willing to take risks and disregard the Wingszone.com/nllmb posters who will hate on you regardless of what you write.

I wish I was better about keeping a best-of collection of Tutka’s greatest lines (this post was delayed because I was tried unsuccessfully to cobble together some greatest hits; there was the one email he intended to send to his girlfriend that he sent to me that was pretty classic but I’ll leave it out), but this is one that I immediately pulled out and sent around to our Inside Lacrosse staff:

“Jarett Park mighta got his clock completely cleaned against Jon Harasym last season, like I’m talking polishing everything from the digits to the coo-coo bird, but the dude took his lumps like a man and didn’t even come close to goin’ in turtle mode.”

There’s also an epic line from the old Lax Mag days:

“You’re full of s— if you pegged Ryan Boyle as the next great American in boxla …”

The best part about these lines is they’re accurate and bold without being overblown. He’s right on both counts. He’s not exaggerating just to make a point like so many media talking heads these days.

So I will conclude this post the only way it can: Paul, well, I love you man. And you look like an Ewok:

Tuts at home

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