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Advisory Board for the @PremierLacrosse League | Coached for 42 years at UVA & Brown - 4x NCAA Champion & 2008 HOF | Board for @HarlemLacrosse /author
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One of my former players was recently pinned as a US Navy Seal, graduating
#1
in his class. In contrast to the tired, demographic cliche, public may be surprised to hear and lacrosse can be proud that it is one of 7 sports (not FB, BB or BB) that produces the most Seal recruits.
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The best lacrosse player in the world is a Native American sporting a hand-hewn “Black Lives Matter” marker on his helmet. This is not Gilman/Garden City, ladies and gentlemen...there is an awakening afoot.
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I am writing a book with Zed Williams about his life, Seneca Indian, second youngest of 10, first to graduate from college, PLL MVP...it’s a great story.
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I’m almost 70…I spent 3 hrs in study hall last night trying to encourage one particular young man to focus on his schoolwork. Why am I doing this? Because at this point in my life, I get great satisfaction from helping someone “figure it out”, even if just one child at a time.
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Lunch today with 2x National Champions Jared Connors, Ian Laviano and Dox Aitken on their way out of town.....again, my selfie game is unmatched!
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To college players...maybe you are not as strong as some of your teammates, as fast, experienced, you want to play more...this is the time of year when you can outwork them. Make your 12/22 resolution to be first in the running come Jan...no excuses, take responsibility, do it!
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How the world turns...I had never seen Lacrosse before arriving at Brown in fall of ‘70 and Lars was a VERY late addition to his recruiting class. I was doing a home visit on Onondaga Rez when I first heard his name in ‘85. I took a chance and the rest, as they say, is history.
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I was sitting in Joe Solomon’s house on the Onondaga reservation when Mr Solomon asked if I knew about a solid defenseman with good grades at the high school who was not getting a lot of attention. I called Lars the next day...
"First of all I want to thank Dom Starsia"
@UVAMensLax
coach Lars Tiffany pays tribute to former UVA coach
@DomStarsiaPLL
in first comments after winning
#NCAAMLAX
Championship |
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OK, all you young players…what have we learned watching Brennan O’Neill? The stroke you should be working on is “overhand to the side pipe”, hi or lo, near or far. There is a deception in that lead shoulder that freezes goalies. Put away that sidearm to the top bar….
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It was 36 years ago today, two weeks after taking my Brown team to Chapel Hill for a playoff game and two days after we hosted the NCAA Finals, that these two angels were born. Their life mission may be simply to bring joy in to other’s lives. Happy Birthday Maggie and Emma!
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The descriptive term “Iroquois” is actually derogatory in origin. The NA Teams will now be referred to as Haudenosaunee Nationals. I also think it would be informative and educational if PLL announcers provide the tribal affiliation of Native players- Seneca, Mohawk, Ojibwe,etc
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My daughter Maggie, on the left, had a little fundraiser for Special Olympics that I sent around to some of the boys this morning. No exaggeration, within 15 minutes of pushing “send”, she was over her goal!
Sense of community in our game
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My son Joe, who almost flunked out of Lynchburg College in his first year, went on to coach 10 years of college lax and then graduated with Chancellor’s Distinction (highest honors) from UTexas Law School, will be admitted to the New York State Bar at noon today...a proud dad.
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With all these close games in mind, the message to your players is “all the little things matter”...final rep in wgtroom, touch the line, last pass in a drill, no offsides in practice, etc., might be what decides one of these games and determine the final measure of your season
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Harlem Lacrosse began as a middle school program in 2009. Ten years later, one of our first participants, Myles Smith, is about to graduate from Bates. He worked our camp at Graves, was VP of his college class and will be working for Merrill/Bank of Am in the fall...great story
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It is a challenge for D1 college coaches to remain really friendly. The battles in the recruiting can be as ferocious as those on game day. I have a profound respect for DP, based on the personal quality I respect above all others, honesty. He is a man of great integrity.
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The girls are home! After having been separated for two weeks maybe twice in 35 years, it has been 17+ weeks since we have seen Emma, on the left, and Maggie. We are all headed to upstate NY in the next couple of days.
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The girls got their second shots and were finally able to come home for the weekend. A little drizzle wasn’t going to keep us from a walk around the intramural fields at UVA.
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There is a lot to like about “Sixes” but the game is simply not fair for the goalies. Call it “box on grass” if you like with the very significant difference being goalies padded properly in front of a smaller net. Hard to imagine a young goalie aspiring to play in this game.
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I told the boys yesterday that I will be stepping away as the head coach at Blue Ridge at the conclusion of this season. Krissy and I simply decided it is time. I hope to remain involved when the new staff is settled. If you are interested, please be encouraged to reach out.
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THIS is why I love sports...because, once in a while, in the midst of the absolute searing heat of the competition, there is a spontaneous moment that fills our heart.
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Hey, how did that happen??!!
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Give Brendan Callahan and the Dartmouth Lacrosse team credit...they knew what they were getting in to but, they gave themselves a chance to get back on the field....for all the right reasons, we should applaud both teams.
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Inspired by Lyle and the PLL, I carved this wall-hanging for a dear Mohawk friend who is the Director of Family Services on a reservation in upstate New York…in memory of the children lost in these Residential Schools.
“Never Forget”.
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High school players obsessed about Division 1 should take a long look at this picture of a 6’3”/230lb Zed Williams who could have played football or basketball at a major college level.
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Payton Cormier, my last recruit to Virginia still on the roster, broke Doug Knight’s, ‘97, (basically my first recruit to Virginia) career goal scoring record in UVA’s game with Richmond today….congrats Payton!
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It may be that the B10 is full of “6 ft 4” gorillas ready to rip your face off” but with Kastner, Fulton and Schroter on the field, Virginia averages 6’6”/215 on their close defense.
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Been around the game for over 50 years now, not sure I have EVER seen a better individual performance by a defenseman than Albany’s Jake Piseno in yesterday’s game v VA…defended tough, picked it up, picked it off, finished plays….he’s 5’8”!…save room on your 1st team.
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Spent the afternoon yesterday at Lars’ house helping him to blow leaves…two blowers are a lot better than one!
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On our way to Christmas Eve service….one of the great joys in my life especially during these past 36 years is the unshakeable belief in this household that Santa is coming down that chimney tonight. Happy Holidays to all!
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To parents...let your kid fail. You can/should always be supportive but failure may be the most important tool in the education of an athlete. We take the winning for granted, it is the self-examination that accompanies failure that opens our eyes to a better way to do things.
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Spoke with a top D1 head coach recently who told me that EVERY 2025 HS prospect asked about NIL…in the form of “what else can you do for me, Coach?” I still cannot wrap my head around needing to to pay lacrosse players to attend a better school and play college lacrosse.
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A picture of how Charlottesville looked off our back porch earlier this week and....a first attempt to attach a picture to a tweet!
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If today marks the end of Belichick’s run in New England, let me say thanks…I might not have always agreed but I sure was paying attention.
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No small matter, speaks to the discipline and culture in the program…kudos to Coach Brown and the UNC players after a hard game
Shout out to UNC for leaving the locker room clean. Thanks
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We were married 45 years ago today in the chapel at the U of Rochester. I was a soccer and lacrosse assistant at Brown and Krissy was back in school working toward a BS/RN. It’s been quite a ride!
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What is the common thread between ‘96 National Player of the Year Attackman Doug Knight and Tewaaraton Award winners Chris Rotelli, Matt Ward, Steele Stanwick and Pat Spencer?....that would be one of the finest coaches in our sport, Marc VanArsdale.
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I am really proud of my half-Irish background at this moment....Ireland Lacrosse Voluntarily Withdraws from The World Games | US Lacrosse Magazine
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A picture taken on the field following the National Championship Game in 2011. Steele always had time for Maggie and Emma and helped organize a birthday salute on the video board during the semifinals. M & E danced non-stop at his wedding and he is now a recent first time dad
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The Park where I run is building a new playground. I am not sure of the final plans but those two slides will certainly toughen up these modern children!
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Why should World Lacrosse change its rules to accommodate the Iroquois Nationals? I have always believed that the unique sense of community in our game derives from its Indigenous origins. To deny/exclude this sense of spirituality seems a sacrilege. May be too high a price...
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Trying to figure out this twitter thing....thanks for your patience and support....joining the cyber universe!
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Spirit willing, I will be at Lars’ induction ceremony one day
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Listening to the president reminds me of what I tell prospects when writing to coaches...don’t tell me how coachable you are, it’s the first indication that you are not coachable..don’t tell me what a hard worker you are, you’re a soph in HS, you have no idea...stick to the facts
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Tell your lacrosse-playing sons and daughters that I was on the wall this morning with ball and wood stick, just like my beginning in the game in spring of ‘71 in Rhode Island. Btw, that “DS” on my shirt is for one of our all time favorite Legends’ teammates, Dan Spillett, RIP.
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Wearing a mask may now have political connotations but it does not significantly limit your freedom and is a modest inconvenience. What it screams, however, is that you put the interests of others above your own. Not sure I could say something nicer about you.
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BIG DAY today….it is Maggie and Emma’s 38th birthday!!
Born less than 48 hours after we hosted the NCAA Finals at Brown in 1985….now, that was a busy weekend!
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The best lacrosse of year is always in the NCAA semis, the final game is often just a matter of survival. Play the M & W semis this weekend at one site and then play the M & W Finals next Sat nite…rested teams, prepared, night games, great atmosphere…only 4 teams extend season
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We are hopeful that the 2021 lacrosse season is on the near horizon. From the level of a HS JV team to the PLL (maybe esp the PLL!), the key to your individual and team success is simply to ask and answer this question everyday “What can I do to help, Coach?”.
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Tell your young players that their athletic goal should be “Aspire to Lead”. The journey to the qualities that define outstanding leadership- fearlessness, selflessness, honesty, toughness, etc. will also lift their teammates and take them to all their individual playing goals.
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The spirit of Christmas is alive and well in the Starsia/Lasagna household!
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37 years ago tomorrow, Emma and Maggie were born on the Monday after we hosted the NCAA Finals at Brown. They have been a significant part of my lacrosse life and for most of the guys that played for me since that day in 1985.
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Had about 100 of ‘99 team members, family and friends at the house tonight to kick off the 25th anniversary weekend….a wonderful gathering.
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What you have here are three First Team All-Ivy League players from Brown’s undefeated 1973 Ivy Championship Team…an old defenseman on the left, middie Dave White and attackman Steph Russo. We just won our first game in OT in 65+ Division at LP. We each had a goal in 4th qtr.
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Jim Brown, Alf Jacques….we’ve lost two of the mythic characters in our game.
I was gifted this Alf stick and my obligation is to pay forward the good medicine it has brought in to my life….peace
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Our season ended last night with a hard-fought, close game on the road against the
#1
seed in the State Tournament. I am really proud of the players, the team we are becoming and the effort overall, especially in these playoff games. This was a good run!
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A lot of years ago, I heard that there was a terrific middle school athlete over at Collegiate School in Richmond…I wrote to him saying, essentially, “son, you need to come to my lacrosse camp, if you want to have a life…”. Russell Wilson may have made the right choice!
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At yesterday’s rally, the president goaded his followers in to booing “Indigenous People’s Day”....even for him, disappointing
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Excited to be part of a new era of lacrosse and be a Head Coach in the
@PremierLacrosse
League!
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I meet weekly for coffee with a couple of local legends...one of them suggested a beer instead. I texted my daughter from the bar, “Hey, Moll, this beer at 5:00 thing ain’t bad”...her reply, “it’s called Happy Hour Dad and the concept’s been around for awhile”...live and learn
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The “Leading Ladies of Lacrosse”, born on this day 35 years ago, two weeks after my Brown team went to Chapel Hill for an NCAA game and two days after we hosted the Finals. Haven’t seen them for 11 weeks now, they are in a safe place but a little unsettling. They are the gift!
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I first picked up a lacrosse stick as a freshman at Brown in the spring of 1971….52 years later, we had our first practice of 2023 last night in the field house at Blue Ridge.
If you treat this Native gift with respect, it can be your friend for a long time!
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Drove over and visited with Zed Williams yesterday on the Cattaraugus Reservation.... checking to see if he might still have some high school eligibility!!
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I was co-captain of the Brown freshman football team in the fall of 1970 and picked up a lacrosse stick for the first time that spring. Just realized that this past 2021 season at Blue Ridge marks my first 50 years in the game!
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Appreciate that Lars asked me to speak with the team today…UVA and UMD have a long, consequential history in the NCAA tournament. I don’t care to hear that the Hoos have “nothing to lose”. They have made a profound investment in this effort and now it’s time to “buckle it up”!
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Maggie & Emma we’re born on this day in 1985, two days after we hosted the NCAA Finals at Brown. If you have any fond memories of Brown and VA Lacrosse since 1985, a lot of it has to with your good fortune of getting to know these smiling angels and their love for the “Gameboys”
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A toast to the New Year...let’s make 2021 a good one!
The girls are toasting with Mountain Dew...nectar of the gods!
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The Blue Ridge Lacrosse staff gearing up for the start of the 2023 season!
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My text to Zed last Sunday telling him “how proud I am, no matter how the game goes” was sent at 12:36pm just as the anthem was finishing up. Having none of their teammates join Zed and Ty Warner is a public statement...like it or not. We’re not there yet.
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The new coach at Blue Ridge is wishing for everyone to please wear a mask, that you and your families be safe and have a wonderful holiday season.
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Off the back deck this morning, there is nothing quite like waking up in the Adirondacks
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I would like you to meet maybe the most important influence in my lacrosse career. Dave White, Mohawk Indian from St Regis reservation in upstate NY, was my classmate, teammate and roommate at Brown while also very much my spiritual conscience about the values of the game.
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The International game is hard to watch and may actually be hurting its growth overall…the PLL, in turn, is spectacular but a little too frantic for me, too much forced play at the end of the shot clock…. probably a natural bias but it is the college game with the right balance
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Bear with a proud dad...My son Joe went to Lynchburg and coached for 10 years in college. Decided on a change of life and found himself at UTexas Law, one of oldest in class with 2 kids..made Law Review and earned Chancellor’s Distinction, awarded to top 16 students in class.
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Here’s a keeper from halftime of today’s UVA game with Notre Dame…
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In that situation, the referee might have thanked coach Tillman for his “observation” and told Coach Myers that those gloves would not be permitted back out on the field (enough of a punishment for a player who likely did not have a second, legal pair available).
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I spent 22 years at Brown, 24 at Virginia and 3 months at Blue Ridge...those are my teams (and Hampton, I’m rooting for Hampton) but....man, that North Carolina team is fun to watch!
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To young players, a holiday hint...while Tom Schreiber is exquisitely skilled and athletic, I believe the main reason he is so highly regarded by his peers is his fundamentally selfless instinct to make his teammates better.
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The end of a miraculous day at Placid….Legends ceremony, first 70+ game(pix)and, most importantly, one of our players collapsed in our afternoon game, heart stopped, no pulse…ref, two doctors on our team , LP trainers were on him quickly…AED and he came back…that’s a good day
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I asked Randy for permission to post this picture of his new daughter, Tekahentontie Ari Staats, born during the week of the MLL playoffs. I mean, have you ever seen a cuter picture.....
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Put this sign up in our locker room yesterday…Doyle may be the only person in the HOF who never played lacrosse, a statistics icon who always said to me “the only statistic that matters Dom is ground balls”…we don’t actually do our own laundry but we will do whatever it takes
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We took a moment at the end of practice this morning to count our blessings and consider the people of Ukraine.
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Very helpful....thank you again for the thoughtful contribution to this complicated matter
Disgraceful that Big Ten is not playing football. Let them PLAY!
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Finding myself now on the HS side of the recruiting, some advice for young college coaches- if you say you are going to call someone back, “even to say “Sorry” or, ”we’re not ready”….call them back. It is good discipline for you and you will make some friends along the way
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Beautiful day at Klockner, Brown up three going in to the 4th....one of Brown/UVA’s most loyal fans wearing a Penn sweatshirt!
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It was around 2000 and I heard there was a good, middle school athlete over at Collegiate. Out of the blue, I wrote and told him, basically, that if he wanted to have a life, he should come to my lacrosse camp. Unfortunately for Russell Wilson, he didn’t take my advice...
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“Overhand to the side pipes” is our shooting mantra. Think Brian Carroll, Kyle Dixon, Chris Bocklet, Matt Poskay, Garrett Billings, Ben Rubeor, etc.. Paul Gait once told our team that there was deception built in to the stroke of overhand high.
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Life is a series of chance moments…doing a home visit with Joe Solomon on the Onondaga Reservation. Walking out the door, his dad asks “do you know this kid at the HS, Lars Tiffany, pretty good student and player?” Called him the next day, committed to Brown a week later….
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My son Joe was both a great older and younger brother, coached college lax for 10 years and, then, with two young boys of his own in tow, graduated Chancellor’s Distinction from UTexas Law School. Today is his 39th birthday and a proud dad wishes him good cheer!
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C’mon, this is the best looking lid in the PLL.....it’s not even close!!
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I appreciate Paul and Mike working with me on this transition to a leadership position on the AB. I look forward to continuing my work with the PLL in every helpful capacity. We have stepped boldly in to a new era for professional lacrosse, proud to be part of it. Go Chrome!
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Indigenous Peoples Day...my former roommate at Brown, Dave White, a Mohawk from the Akwesasne Reservation in upstate New York. Taught me how to respect the game.
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Maggie, on her own this morning when they played the national anthem
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I think of Eamon often....the most competitive athlete I have ever played with and against
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On this 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Inn uprising, I am at least as proud to be part of this 1st PLL season because of their enlightened stance on some social issues and alliance with WPLL as I am because of their innovative social media presence and world-class competition.
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My daughter Molly drove over from Nashville for today’s OT game. She is the Exec Dir of the Tenn Higher Education Initiative, a non-profit that provides college education in the two men’s max security prisons in Tenn. The woman has seen a lot of lax in her life..thanks Moll!
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