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Last Updated: May 17, 2021 | 10:25 AM   (Written by Rad Joseph – MSL) The recipient of the Canadian Lacrosse Association’s 2021 Lester B. Pearson Award is Dean McLeod. This annual award is presented to a member of the Canadian lacrosse community in recognition ofoutstanding contributions of sportsmanship and leadership in the game of lacrosse and to the physical and mental development of young Canadians through unselfish dedication as a volunteer. Dean McLeod’s devotion, work ethic, focu...

Article content Appeals, committees, conflict, letters from politicians, digital drama, a somewhat Hollywood-esque last-ditch effort to save a storied local team from the whim of an “outsider” owner – the move of the Brampton Excelsiors is threatening to out-entertain the on-the-floor product. The Ontario Lacrosse Association confirmed in a statement Saturday an appeals committee has rescinded the OLA board of governor’s approval of the Excelsiors move to Owen Sound “on the basis that...

After delaying in response to public pressure and creating a five-person committee to review the relocation of the Brampton Excelsiors to Owen Sound, the…

Sunday March 7th, 2021 8:08am The Victoria Shamrocks of the Western Lacrosse Association announced that Mike Simpson has been appointed as the new Head Coach, taking over from Bob Heyes. Simpson has been the Shamrocks offensive coach since 2017. “I am honoured to be able to follow in the footsteps of some of the game’s finest coaches such as Nirmal Dillon, Chris Hall and my great friend Bob Heyes,” said Simpson. “I believe this is one of the most prestigious coaching positions in all of...

Finn Halladay, son of Del Halladay, will play field lacrosse at Drexel University in Philadelphia. Kyle Pepper, son of Grant Pepper, and Sylvi Jenner, daughter of Fred Jenner, will both play at St. Bonaventure in upstate New York. “It’s a cool lineage,” said Claremont athletic director Darren Reisig, also a Mann Cup champion former Shamrocks player in the Western Lacrosse Association and pro in the National Lacrosse League. “The extra special aspect of this recruitment class are the ...

Friday February 26th, 2021 10:10am Ten months after cancelling its 2020 season, the Western Lacrosse Association announced today it will hold a shortened, 12-game regular season for its teams starting at the end of June and running through the end of July, with playoffs scheduled for August. As well, although plans are being reviewed on an ongoing basis in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and nation-wide vaccine rollout, the WLA and its Ontario counterpart, Major Series Lacrosse (MSL), are tenta...

Article content When Fred Hume passed away on Feb. 17, 1967, The Vancouver Sun hailed him as a real-life Horatio Alger story — “a poor and ambitious boy” who worked his way up “through hard work and initiative.” The New Westminster native was co-founder of Hume and Rumble, at one point the biggest electrical contractor in western Canada. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or This Week in History: 1967: Friendly Fred Hume dies at 74 Back to v...

Bob Heyes got the relationship-type ‘it’s not you, it’s us’ line in being dismissed as head coach of the Victoria Shamrocks after eight winning seasons and four Western Lacrosse Association . . .

That is not a rhetorical question. IL Indoor is opening it up to you to vote in a tournament-style bracket to decide which of the team that have captured the NLL championship in the 21st century would win if they were all competing for the title of grand champion. We have seeded the 20 winners. To do so, we looked at won/loss records, goals for and against differential, where they finished in their division and overall in the NLL, considered all the variables and ranked them from 1 to 20. Today...