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1 posted on 07/31/2010 3:54:34 AM PDT by abb
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2 posted on 07/31/2010 3:56:02 AM PDT by abb ("What ISN'T in the news is often more important than what IS." Ed Biersmith, 1942 -)
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Used to teach at a HS in Manatee County, got a transfer student from Lakewood Ranch, in on a discipline contract, he was a lacrosse player.
Biggest disruptor, didn’t care about grades, because it wouldn’t affect his playing lacrosse. He played for IMG..
Really bad attitude for a ninth grader. Eventually he was expelled.. still played for IMG. His parents had big bucks to pay for private lacrosse, but didn’t want to have public education disrupting their superstars life with things like paying attention in class and doing homework.


3 posted on 07/31/2010 4:32:18 AM PDT by Waverunner
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Totally love Lacrosse!!

As a Syracuse grad, I would gladly trade a couple of our national championships in Lacrosse just for a bowl game in football. We can spare them.


5 posted on 07/31/2010 5:44:39 AM PDT by Le Chien Rouge
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Lacrosse is as close to a perfect sport as you can get. Lots of running, some hitting and it’s really fast.

My son has been playing for 8 months and is going into 9th grade. It’s a club sport in St. Louis, but I’ll bet that changes soon.


6 posted on 07/31/2010 5:54:45 AM PDT by birddog (http://www.nohr669.com/)
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A kid has good speed and eye-hand coordition but he doesn’t
have the size and speed for football or baseball.
or even the height and speed for B-ball.

There’s a kid just made for Lacrosse. I like to think of
it as “Hockey on the grass.” Great Game.


9 posted on 07/31/2010 8:32:15 AM PDT by Pompah
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What's interesting is that lacrosse is starting to become a pretty popular sport in Japanese high schools. In the first of the long-running Pretty Cure Japanese anime series seasons, one of the main characters (Nagisa Misumi) plays lacrosse at the middle school she attends. The fact such a very mainstream anime series has one of its main characters play lacrosse tells me that this sport now has real international recognition.
11 posted on 07/31/2010 10:59:34 PM PDT by RayChuang88 (FairTax: America's economic cure)
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