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Big News Out Of The National Lacrosse League (NLL)

TORONTO. - The National Lacrosse League continues to make headlines even though there hasn't been a game in fifteen months. A few weeks back it was announced that Las Vegas was going to be the next expansion city for the league with Billionaire Joe Tsai owning his second team in the league. That in itself is newsworthy, however, as of last Monday it is now known who the entire ownership group is, and believe me when I say this is a game changer.

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A Flurry Of Player Signings In The National Lacrosse League (NLL)

TORONTO. - The start of June has been flooded with teams re-signing their players. With free agency for the former team not beginning until July, and league wide free agency not until August, why so many signings so early?

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National Lacrosse League (NLL) Once Again Inducts Into Their Hall of Fame

TORONTO. - This past week the NLL Inducted lacrosse greats into the hall of fame (HoF) for the first time since 2016, when Josh Sanderson, Tracey Kelusky, and John Tavares had entered. This would also be the fifteenth anniversary of the existence of the Hall which was started back in 2006.

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The Ontario Junior A Lacrosse League (OJALL) Make Rule Changes

TORONTO. - The Ontario Junior A Lacrosse League (OJALL) made an announcement late last week that they would change some of their rules to be more uniform with the National Lacrosse League (NLL).

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Canada’s Soccer hopes in Qatar

TORONTO. - Since 1924 when Canada joined the competition to be the best in the world in the sport of soccer aka “Football” Canada has only scratched the surface. The challenge of scoring goals requires talent which cannot be taught. Defense can be taught and Canada can. In a group of much smaller countries aside from the US and Mexico, Canada has faded out of contention tripping over its inability to find the net.

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Junior A: Lacrosse Growing in Ontario

TORONTO. - Back in January of 2021, the Junior Lacrosse scene in Ontario got shook up like it's never been shook before. The Six Nations Arrows made a bold announcement that it would no longer play in the Ontario Junior A Lacrosse League (OJALL) but move to the brand-new Tewaaraton Lacrosse League (TLL) as it is inaugural team.

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New York Welcomes Talles Magno To The “Biggest Small Market City” in Sports

New York. - New York City is unlike most places in the world. This city has the Statue of Liberty, the Empire State Building, Broadway, Times Square, and a thousand more places that it's known for. It is also one of the biggest sports cities in the world with 8 teams inside and 3 just outside it. Two of these, the Yankees, and Knicks, are the most valuable teams in their respective sports. Despite this, when the announcement was made that Talles Magno, the talented 18-year-old attacker from Brazil was coming to NYCFC, it was regarded as a massive grab both for the team and MLS as a whole. Experts predicted that he'd end up in Europe, with Liverpool and Real Madrid considered by many to be front runners, so the idea of going to a city and a country where soccer takes an absolute back seat to other sports came as a surprise to many. This is the player who ended up on the world's radar after scoring two goals in the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup for his native Brazil on route to the championship that year, the player who was named The Guardians Next Generation 2019 and was profiled as one of the 60 best young talents in the world ended up in NY of all places. The posting fee to grab him was about $12 million U.S., making him one of the most expensive transfers in MLS history. All of this adds up to a great deal of pressure for the young man.

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Baseball: Our National Pastime, But Now A Sport Whose Time Is Passed

TORONTO. - At the age of 45, I'm old by today's standards. When I graduated high school in 1993, most of the world hadn't heard of the internet and the idea of Sony and Microsoft making game systems was a laughable idea. This was an era when baseball was THE national sport. Major League Baseball, my favorite sport as a child, averaged over 30 million viewers in its 1991 World Series between the Braves & Twins, including an obscene 50 million viewers for game 7. It has seen a steady drop over 3 decades to under 12 million viewers per game each of the last two years. Many reasons factor into this alarming statistic including increased strikeouts and pace of play, but I feel it all comes down to what a changing audience wants.

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