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Stealth move generates an NLL buzz, plus the links

June 19th, 2009 by Bob Chavez

Not long after NLLInsider.com broke the news that the National Lacrosse League’s San Jose Stealth is moving to Everett, Wash., the questions started to roll in. The Herald of Everett took a solid look at the challenges the Stealth will face in winning over new fans, but a blogger outta Seattle isn’t even giving the game a chance. That’s what’s most irritating. You don’t like the game? Fine. But don’t crumb on it when, in the same breath, you admit you had to look up the spelling of ‘lacrosse.’ How weak is that? It’s like saying you don’t like applesauce, then admitting you’ve never eaten it. READ MORE »

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Batley won’t be back to coach NLL’s Rock, plus the links

June 12th, 2009 by Bob Chavez

At least Jamie Batley has his answer. The coach who took over for the Toronto Rock three games into the last National Lacrosse League season told The Peterborough Examiner that he will not be back with the Rock in 2010. “I’m not going back, for sure,” Batley told the newspaper. “I’m not sure what they’re doing, but I won’t be coaching them.” Batley knew he wouldn’t be Toronto’s general manager after the Rock named former Roughnecks assistant coach Terry Sanderson to that role on Wednesday, but now Toronto needs a new coach and there’s still no word on whether former Roughnecks head coach Troy Cordingley is the frontrunner for that job. READ MORE »

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Hometown Wall of Fame for NLL’s Zywicki, plus the links

June 5th, 2009 by Bob Chavez

It’s kinda quiet these days for the National Lacrosse League, but we’d be remiss not to point out some hometown accolades for one of the NLL’s best, Jeff Zywicki. The fella out of Nepean, which technically is Ottawa, made his way into the Nepean Sports Wall of Fame earlier this week. We all know of his exploits with the San Jose Stealth, but Z was a huge part of Team Canada’s field championship in 2006 after his All-America career at UMass. With the Nepean Knights from 1997-2001, he piled up 191 goals and 156 assists in just 70 games. READ MORE »

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