NLL Insider

NLLInsider.com is the top website dedicated to covering the National Lacrosse League and the Canadian summer scene. Published and founded by Inside Lacrosse, NLL Insider launched in December of 2007 as a full-service home for all news related to indoor and box lacrosse. Featuring video, lifestyle, breaking news, scouting reports, stats, opinions, rankings, game coverage and more, NLL Insider covers everything for the NLL as well as Jr. A and Sr. A lacrosse. With longtime Canadian lacrosse journalists like Brian Shanahan and Paul Tutka leading a team of editors that covers North America, no one is as close to the game as NLL Insider.

Insiders

Ted Jenner – Insider

Ted has six years’ NLL experience, with Rochester, Anaheim and Edmonton. He also has six years’ WLA experience, winning the Mann Cup in 2003 and ‘05 with the Victoria Shamrocks. This past summer he put up 20 points in 13 games for the Shamrocks. Ted also spent four years playing NCAA lacrosse at Mercyhurst College, where he was a standout midfielder for the Lakers from 1997-2001. Email him at ted.jenner@nllinsider.com or go to JennerChev.com.

Tim Knab – Insider

Proudly based in Rochester, N.Y., Knabber is the NLL’s ultimate fan, having started the Knighthawks Krew in 1997 and growing it to more than 300 members in 13 states and six countries. He’s been a season-ticket holder in the NLL since 1992 (Buffalo) and with his hometown Knighthawks since their inception in 1995. Also the founder and head of the Rochester Rattlers Rowdies in the summer, Knabber helps organize the annual Fann Cup, a charity lacrosse game between the NLL’s different fan clubs. Email him at tim.knab@nllinsider.com or go to AreYouKrew.net.

Editors

Bob Chavez – Managing Editor

Bob is a newspaper journalist in Rochester, N.Y., and has been doing work for Inside Lacrosse Magazine for seven years. The lacrosse scene in Western New York keeps him busy year-round with plenty of news to follow in the NLL and local high schools and colleges. After some club lacrosse in college, Bob plays year-round these days in a Rochester men’s league since 1998: in the box during the winter and on the field in the summer (including the last five Lake Placid Tournaments as a defenseman with the Buffalo Soldiers). Email him at bob.chavez@nllinsider.com or go to RochesterSports.com.

Paul Tutka – Managing Editor

Paul actually started out his writing career at Inside Lacrosse, first as IL’s Canadian Correspondent and then serving as the magazine’s NLL Editor from 2001-05. He also worked as the Media Coordinator at Rudeboys Lacrosse, published his own indoor lacrosse-specific magazine, LAXMAG and currently works as a Web Editor for Mixed Martial Arts company, Triumph United. Based in the Toronto area, Tutka has worked as a scout in the NLL with both the Minnesota Swarm and San Jose Stealth. Email him at paul.tutka@nllinsider.com.

Brian Shanahan – Senior Writer

Shanny has 34 years of lacrosse experience, including five straight Mann Cups (1992-996). After playing one year in the NLL as a 37-year-old rookie for the Ontario Raiders in 1998, he jumped to TV in 1999. He is in his 10th year as a television analyst for Rogers Sportsnet in Canada, and he has also done games for The Score, CBC, NBC, FoxSports and ESPN. Before joining Inside Lacrosse in 2005, he wrote a regular lacrosse column for the Toronto Sun. Email him at brian.shanahan@nllinsider.com or go to ShannyLacrosse.com.

Steve Kojima – Editor

Steve began covering lacrosse in 2003 as a journalist for LacrosseTalk, before joining Inside Lacrosse in 2007 as IL’s top correspondent during the Mann Cup. A native of Victoria, B.C., Kojima’s lacrosse accomplishments include two All-American honors at Simon Fraser University. His only year of Jr. A, he led Coquitlam in scoring and was voted one of B.C.’s Top 15 Jr. A players. Steve now competes for Team Bermuda at International Lacrosse Federation events, while working as a business consultant for some of Canada’s largest corporations. Email him at steve.kojima@nllinsider.com.

Kevin Fixler – Editor

Hailing from the suburbs of Denver, Kevin covers pretty much everything Colorado for Inside Lacrosse Magazine and InsideLacrosse.com. A 2006 graduate of the University of Denver, where he also played lacrosse at both the DI and club levels, Kevin double majored in journalism and history, and performed nearly every role at one point or another during three years working for the student newspaper, the Clarion. Since then, he has run the gamut of freelance writing, most notably being published on ESPN.com. In his free time, he can usually still be found hacking it up on the lacrosse field. Kevin is also a local high school coach. Email him at kevin.fixler@nllinsider.com.

Ty Pilson – Editor

Ty began covering the NLL in 2000 when it was announced the league was expanding to Calgary. He covered the team and the league for the Calgary Sun as one of the NLL’s top beat writers until handing off the Roughnecks’ responsibilities when he was promoted to the post of sports editor at the paper. He continues to write for Inside Lacrosse Magazine and follow the league closely. Pilson grew up playing lacrosse in Calgary, where he still resides with his wife Tara and children Aidan and Abigail. Email him at ty.pilson@nllinsider.com or go to CalgarySun.com.