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This week we’re bringing you the top 10 Goal photos from the 2008 season. Have a favorite? Let us know! Photos by Martin Allinson, Stan Huber, Dave Gottenborg and John Mecionis.
This week’s featured photos category is Biggest Air. Be sure to check out other photos like this one in the photo gallery. 
Be sure to check out the best of 2008 NLL and Box lacrosse photos. Each week there will be a new gallery posted; featuring Best Action Shot, Biggest Air, Entertainment, Fights and more! This weeks gallery features the best Action Shots, be sure and check it out!
With an early exit from the WLA play-offs my fellow Victoria Shamrocks and I are off to the golf course to enjoy the last three weeks or so of the gorgeous west coast summer. The golf courses have been calling my name for months, so here’s hoping I can bring my handicap down a few strokes! With all this free time I have now I’ve been able to do a little reflecting on the season that was in the WLA.
It’s that time of year again; the long, hot days of summer. What does one do with themselves when there is no NBA or NHL to watch or attend? Hmmmm…. Vacations to the Hamptons, camping trips up north, or maybe a family bike tour just to say you were able to get out of the house for a while. How about taking them across the border and doing a weekend tour of two MLS or WLA arenas so you and your family can get your lacrosse fix and see some of the big names battle it out for national supremacy!?
Then there is the other option. You could grab the kids and take ‘em to an afternoon baseball game at one of the countless half filled ball parks across the US. Not saying that going to the park isn’t a good time, hell I’d go if it meant getting out of work. The problem is I just can’t figure out how baseball gets away with it. Multi-million dollar contracts, almost every game is televised, no parity- and when I say that I think that one day a team can dump somebody 14-1 then lose 3-0 later that evening and of course playing in front of 7,000 fans in 20,000 seat brand new facilities. I know baseball is a highly driven revenue sharing league, with endorsements and long term TV deals but there are just some major glaring things that stick out whenever I watch highlights.
While it seems like this is pointless and I may be beating a dead horse, it bothers me to no end that the Heads of MLB are doing nothing to improve the standards of their game. The NLL puts out one of THE best products in the sports market, has generally packed buildings, and the game pretty much sells itself. Yet television sports networks aren’t giving us the respect we deserve - where are our TV deals? And some of the hardest working guys in sport are still fighting for full time pay! Well Mr. Rodriguez, the next time you decide to charge the mound after a pitcher brushes you back, try not to drop your wallet and think of us little guys, battling it out (for a tenth of what you make a year) every weekend, then going back to our real jobs the next day.
Sports writers hate cliches.
Loathe them, in fact.
You know the ones I’m talking about: We have to play a full 60 minutes; the bounces just didn’t go our way; we have to give it 110% (which never made sense to me because if you’re going to do the impossible and provide more than 100%, why not say something sexier like 6,000%).
However, when it comes to Jim Veltman perhaps nothing rings truer than the mother of all sports cliches: He does all the little things right.
He does everything right, for that matter.

NLL Insider and Inside Lacrosse apologize for this inconvenience. But here’s lesson #1 for all you budding media moguls out there: When the nerds tell you the server could blow up at any minute, you back the F up and let them do their thing. Our main man David Dickerson will be throwing the old IL Internet machine up on blocks Saturday and going to town to get us back up and running for Sunday.
Tutka, don’t worry about that Saturday post brother. I know you’ve got a 14-miler to bang out for your marathon training anyway, so this works out perfectly.
Lay your duckets down on Minnesota. That’s what the NLL Dance Team Pick’em members have did last week, cleaning sweeping the Swarm through th weekend. It paid off, and they’ve all vaunted out to strong winning records. Allison, who took Minnesota early in the season, still has a lead, but Dance Team members Leah, Emily, Lauren and others are picking up. And again this week, the Swarm walk away with the unanimous vote of self-confidence from dance team voters.
Now, without further adieu, Week 8 Picks:
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Here’s what the Dance Team members had to say: READ MORE »
After just two games in the first two weeks of the 2008 NLL season, the NLL will be extremely busy in Week 3 with eight games on the slate. All times are Eastern…
Friday, January 11
Rochester at Buffalo - 7:30 PM
Minnesota at Toronto - 7:30 PM
Saturday, January 12
Chicago at Philadelphia - 7:30 PM
Buffalo at Rochester - 7:35 PM
Toronto at Minnesota - 8:00 PM
Edmonton at Colorado - 9:00 PM
San Jose at Calgary - 9:30 PM
New York at Portland - 10:30 PM
Today’s media call hyped-up these games and talked about the match-ups. READ MORE »