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PLL Happy Hour Podcast: Collision Course Set For Denver Podcast Episode · Inside Lacrosse Podcasts · 30/07/2025 · 50m

You guys heard of the Inside Lacrosse PLL Happy Hour Podcast? It's me and @kevbrown89.bsky.social talking about PLL stuff, be mighty cool if you checked it out.
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PLL Week 5 Preview: What Goes On After Dark? After four weeks on the East Coast, the Premier Lacrosse League has touched down in San Diego for the final weekend of play before the

The latest game of the PLL season, the guaranteed end of a two-point streak and a new 500 point scorer (or two, or maybe zero?): Here's my @insidelacrosse.bsky.social Week 5 preview:
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6/25 PLL Happy Hour: Assists King Rob Pannell Inside Lacrosse Podcasts · Episode

On this week's @insidelacrosse.bsky.social
PLL Happy Hour, @kevbrown89.bsky.social
& I are joined by legendary attackman & even more legendary pod guest Rob Pannell to talk about all those assists, Cornell winning it all, playing two games in Homewood's heat & more
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Anonymous PLL Post-Draft Survey — Best Value, Best Fit, Biggest Head-Scratcher and Surprises For the general managers of the Premier Lacrosse League, roster construction is a science that requires an endless cycle of mock drafts,

ICYMI, Here's the anonymous draft survey I mentioned on today's podcast: Best values, best fits & more on recent holdout Griffin Schutz
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2025 PLL Mock Draft: Who Goes Next After CJ Kirst Gets Picked First? In one week, Cornell star CJ Kirst will all but certainly be the first pick in the 2025 PLL Draft.He just set the NCAA men's Division I

One week out and you know it's time for a Mock!

Just the First Round to start, which I right now have Sam King sliding out of. And if Carolina replaces Josh Byrne with another lefty in Owen Hiltz, how far does Chris Kavanagh slide?
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The Carolina Chaos have signed free agent lefty attackman Adam Charalambides to a two-year deal, per source.

Best day of the year!

2025 PLL Draft Big Board — Positional Rankings, Pro Comps, Best Fits We are 12 days away from the 2025 PLL Draft, and the board makes its overdue appearance.The choice at No. 1 is clear as day, and team needs

It's not quite the generational class of last year, but the PLL Big Board is full of hidden gems who'll certainly make impacts this year and beyond.

While I can't wait to see what First Round twists we get, the undrafted waiver wire will get upside potential.
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PLL announces throwback weekend, July 11-12 in Chicago. The Hall of Fame induction ceremony will take place at halftime of the Chaos-Redwoods game, as opposed to the previous inductions at Homewood Field.

Top 10 Polarizing Prospects For the 2025 PLL Draft As the college lacrosse regular season comes to a conclusion over the next week, just 15 days remain before the next class of stars will

No matter the position, there are plenty of pro prospects getting mixed reviews ahead of the 2025 PLL Draft.

Ranking the Top 10 based on their volatility just over two weeks out from draft night.
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2025 Freshmen Impact Rankings: Hill Plunkett's Rise Headlines Update A month later and the first years have grown in confidence.2025 Freshmen Impact Rankings: Early Season The natural talent is better

It's a bookend week for me content-wise.

First, we're checking in on the top impact freshmen. Then, will have some PLL big board content the next couple days to celebrate the pro-ready seniors.
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Army's Georgia Core Four Rise From the Shadows To Lead Black Knights Last Friday, the Plunkett brothers were doing their usual routine, hitting the practice field together at 5:30 in the morning with their

Friday feature alert!

Army has four players hailing from Georgia all making significant impacts this season: middies Evan and Hill Plunkett, goalie Sean Byrne and attackman Brayden Fountain.

On their rise to becoming big-time Black Knight contributors:
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/army...

Marquette currently has the highest RPI out of all the Big East teams.

A real and factual statement ahead of @terencefoy.bsky.social's first @insidelacrosse.bsky.social Bracketology look... 👀

McDonogh (Md.) Taking Nothing For Granted With Historic 4-Peat Aspirations in MIAA The McDonogh (Md.) Eagles are fighting to make history this spring.After three-straight titles from 2022 to ’24, coach Andy Hilgartner's

No team has won four MIAA titles in a row before. McDonogh wants to become the first.

My story on overcoming a rocky start with lofty aspirations as the Eagles are now 2-0 in league play:
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/mcdo...

The California Redwoods have acquired attackman Brendan Nichtern from the Denver Outlaws in exchange for the 26th pick in the 2025 College Draft. Nichtern is confirmed back & available to play.

Power Ranking Week 8 Games

1. No. 5 UNC at No. 9 Army
2. No. 6 PennSt at No. 2 Maryland
3. No. 8 'Cuse at UVA
4. No. 4 Princeton at No. 18 Dartmouth
5. No. 11 Duke at No. 7 ND
6. 14 Hopkins at No. 19 Michigan
7. Penn at No. 1 Cornell
8. Rutgers at No. 3 OSU
9. Nova at No. 20 Denver
10. UMass at SJU

My submission for IL Midseason First Team All-Americans:

A-CJ Kirst
A-Sam King
A-Joey Spallina
M-Sam English
M-Hunter Aquino
M-Andrew McAdorey
FO-Brady Wambach
SSDM-Aidan Maguire
SSDM-Jack Pilling
LSM-Christian Fournier
D-Will Schaller
D-Levi Verch
D-Julian Radossich
G-Logan McNaney

‘Learning Steps’ For Video Review After No-Goal Call in Penn State-Ohio State The second year of video review in college lacrosse continues to provide some growing pains.On Sunday night, Penn State midfielder Jack

The crux of the video review issue is making sure every program has the best possible feed for officials to best see the replay angles.

My story for IL:
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/-lea...

Redwoods Deal Owen Grant To Boston For 3rd Overall Pick in 2025, '26 Fourth Rounder It didn't take long for California Redwoods' new general manager Joe Spallina to make a deal.The Redwoods have acquired the third overall

Interesting PLL trade, was excited to see Grant with Cole Kastner potentially but he’s shipping up to Boston for picks.
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/redw...

Men's DI Roundup: Rutgers Shocks Hop, Denver Dominates Duke, Stags Perfect, One-Goal Madness Madness.The No. 1 team in the country lost. The No. 3 team lost. Also, the No. 8, No. 11 and No. 17, all to unranked teams.There were 14

Add in the Rutgers win at Homewood and the Big Ten is all the way back and we haven’t even reached what was supposed to be the marquee Sunday night matchup!
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A triple overtime thriller in College Park continued this trend of Michigan > Maryland

But to do so in a 70-min battle and stick with it after a ~30-min goal drought showed what they’d talked about all week/huddles in the clutch: Believe.
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/mich...

About to make my way down to College Park to see if the Wolverines can take down the Terps for a fourth straight time — this would be the first with Maryland ranked No. 1, though.

Michigan has outscored Maryland 42-27 in that span, including the 14-5 win in the 2023 Big Ten title game.

2025 Freshmen Impact Rankings: Step Aside, 5-Stars After a top-heavy graduating class departed in 2024 that basically two years' worth of players due to COVID eligibility, plenty of

2025 Freshmen Impact Rankings: Step Aside, 5-Stars
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Head Down, Keep Working: Duke Finding Answers On Both Ends Of The Field With Sloat, Johnson When you lose a superb talent like Brennan O’Neill to graduation, replacing his production and presence was never going to be a

Another big lumbering lefty who can get downhill in a hurry and an eraser who's emerged from the scout team.

On what Max Sloat and Charlie Johnson have brought Duke recently:
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Penn State Freshman Hunter Aquino Is Mature Beyond His Years Since school started back in August, Joe Aquino had not seen much of his son Hunter after he headed to Penn State.Joe grew accustomed to

My first thought reading this: Aquino is 6-foot-6 now?!!?

www.insidelacrosse.com/article/penn...

PLL Names Anthony Kelly Next California Redwoods Head Coach The Premier Lacrosse League named former all-time face-off great Anthony Kelly as the next head coach for the California Redwoods on

More on the Anthony Kelly hire from @kevbrown89.bsky.social & @insidelacrosse.bsky.social
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Men's DI Roundup: Saint Joseph's Earns Philly Sweep, Tops Penn Ryan Bradley picked off a Penn pass across the top with his longpole, sprinted down the field, then fired the opening goal for Saint

Philly sweep in 9 days with wins over Drexel, Nova, and now Penn today is undeniably sick.

St. Joe's is hot!

Lost first three games last year before rattling off 12 straight. This year they lost their first two and are riding a 6-game W streak.
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Cuse scoreless quarter for first time this season. Jaspers goalie with 8 saves.

More like Connor Stopward.

PLL Announces Championship In New Jersey, Quarterfinals in Minnesota & New Playoff Format The Premier Lacrosse League announced on Tuesday the 2025 playoff venues and a restructured postseason format that plays into the Eastern

Title game in NJ and Quarters in Minn. The key difference will be in-conference matchups for semifinals and quarterfinals in 2025.

That means last year's quarterfinal matchups would've been Maryland vs. Boston and Carolina vs. Denver.
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/pll-...

Highlights: Lucovich, Bickel, Ortlieb Lead No. 1 Malvern Prep (Pa.) Past No. 13 Boys' Latin (Md.) The Malvern Prep Friars again defended their Q-Collar No. 1 preseason ranking on Wednesday at USA Lacrosse headquarters in Sparks, Md.,

First high school game coverage of the spring in the books!

Come for my recap of Malvern's second win of 2025, stay for @danaburn.bsky.social's SICK sideline highlights.
www.insidelacrosse.com/article/high...