May 2009 Archives
After a whirlwind weekend that started on Thursday and finished with a D-I champion crowned on Monday, it's about time to leave Gillette Stadium. Congratulations go out to Syracuse (D-I), C.W. Post (D-II) and Cortland State (D-III) for their 2009 national championships. Now that the action's over, take a look at some of our favorite pieces from the five days to relive the NCAA's second-largest event this year (some 100,000 fans bought tickets to the games at Gillette this weekend, behind only the Men's D-I Basketball Tournament at Ford Field) now that it's in the books. And for more, just browse around the blog. Thanks for being with us and we'll see you next year at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore. In the meantime, keep up with us on twitter at http://Twitter.com/NCAALax09. 
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Twenty-five years ago, Don Zimmerman took over a Johns Hopkins team that hadn't won the national championship in three years -- ages, back then, for Hopkins (and still somewhat so). He and his team then compiled one of the most memorable seasons in history, taking the 1984 national crown after blowing through the season. On Monday, at halftime of the D-I championship, the 1984 team was honored, and we were there. Click on for the video!
Walk onto the field with us as Syracuse celebrates its second straight national title in one of the most exciting finishes in D-I Lacrosse Championship history. Click here for the video!
The stadium's empty at Gillette, except for the cleaning crew weaving its way through the 41,935 abandoned seats -- the sixth-largest crowd in D-I championship history. So, it's time for some notes:
The Syracuse Orange completed one of the greatest comebacks in NCAA championship history on Monday. Click 'more' below for a field-level look at the Orange as they celebrated their second straight national title.
 In one of the most unforgettable finishes in D-I Men's Lacrosse championship history, Syracuse came back from three goals down with 5:31 left in the fourth -- and one down with just seconds left -- to take a 10-9 OT win and notch its second straight national title. It's the Orange's 11th NCAA title in history. Stay tuned for more! OT Cody Jamieson fires a shot past Myers from the right side. Game over. Orange win title. Have to run down to the field -- follow the game from either our interactive bracket: http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2009/ncaa_bracket_DI_lacrosse_men.html or my twitter feed: http://twitter.com/Scheity. 4th Quarter :04.5 - Unbelievable. Game tied, 9-9. With time expiring, Matt Abott took the ball in a crowd about 15-20 yards from the goal, then, sandwiched between defenders, lobs it over his head, no-look, to whoever was standing in front of the goal. Kenny Nims was, taking the pass and rolling a shot through Myers' legs. 2:46 - And here come the Orange. A loose ball ends up in Amidon's hands, who fires it to Jamieson for a goal from right outside the crease. 3:37 - Keogh just sunk his second goal of the day; Hardy with the assist -- 9-7, Cornell 5:31 - This might be the dagger. A goal from Roy Lang, shot from the left side of the net as he was falling over, makes the game, 9-6. 7:20 - On an EMO -- Cornell's seventh of the game -- the Big Red's Max Seibald whips in a goal from straight on, off an assist from Hurley; 8-6, Cornell now 13:51 - Syracuse pulls within one with a goal from Dan Hardy off an assist from Cody Jamieson Note: Attendance today is 41,935 - 6th-largest in D-I men's history 3rd Quarter :01 - Jake Myers made a nasty save on a shot from right in front of the net off Kenny Nims' pass over the crease 6:38 - On the EMO, Cornell's Hurley feeds Glynn for a point-blank goal - 7-5, Cornell 7:50 - Syracuse's Josh Amidon fires a shot in, making it 6-5 Cornell Shots: Cornell 31, Cuse 21 GB Corenll 21, cuse 18 face-offs, Cornell 7, Cuse 7 Turnovers, Cornell 10, Cuse 9 Clears Syracuse 12-13; Cornell 12-15 Goalies: Galloway (Cuse) 9; Cornell (Myers) 6 Notes: Cornell outshot 'Cuse 23-11 in 2nd & 3rd quarters -- Gotta run down to the field for a piece on the 25th Anniversary team, but follow along with the game on our interactive bracket: http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2009/ncaa_bracket_DI_lacrosse_men.html2nd Quarter - 5:08 - Cornell's Rob Pannell gets onto the board with his 25th goal of the season, scoring unassisted - Cornell leads, 5-4 - 10:15 - And Syracuse storms right back, getting a goal from Pat Perritt, off an assist from Matt Abbott - 11:38 - Rocco Romero just fired a bullet in from the right slot off an assist from Glynn - Glynn's 4th point on the day - 13:14 - 'Cuse's Stephen Keogh just bounced a shot in, making it 3-3 -- 48th goal of the year ties Keogh for 9th in Syracuse history for single-season goals 1st Quarter :21 - Fantastic Cornell goal by Ryan Hurley (45th of year) off a gorgeous feed to the doorstep from Glynn 2:44 left - Syracuse's Greg Niewieroski just slipped a shot in, then got levelled, to tie the game at 2. 8:00 - John Glynn's got two tallies already, the first on a rocket from about 15 yards directly in front of the net, the second on a top-shelf dagger from a few out after curling around the left side of the defense ---- The teams are on the field, and the battle for the D-I national championship is off. Upstate rivals Cornell and Syracuse have been playing each other since 1920, and haven't missed a year since 1979. Should be a blast. Stay tuned for updates.
DIVISION I NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP
No. 2 seed Syracuse (15-2) vs. No. 5 seed Cornell (13-3)
Monday, 1 p.m. | Gillette Stadium | ESPNHD/ESPN360.comNCAA.com Interactive Bracket
After four days in Foxborough, the action wraps up with the highest prize in college lacrosse being awarded on Memorial Day. As you prep yourself for face-off, use this hub for all your championship-day needs, with links to all of the footage, features and more that we've brought you all weekend. And stay tuned for more as the day goes on, including a feature on the 25th Anniversary Team!
Cortland State and C.W. Post are the D-III and D-II national champions, and you can watch highlights from their days -- and their celebrations -- right here. Click on for full video.
Syracuse's senior class leaves behind a legacy marked both by a painful fall and, more importantly, a brilliant rise.
The cover of Inside Lacrosse's 2005 recruiting issue featured the magazine's second, third and fourth-ranked recruits, all three staring out at the camera and into three futures that looked, at the time, like perfection. All three were in Orange.
Four years later, those three men, Syracuse's Kenny Nims, Pat Perritt and Dan Hardy, are All-Americans - Nims, the country's leading scorer, on the second team with Hardy, and Perritt on the third team; And on Monday, they and eight other seniors will walk onto the Gillette Stadium field for their final game in Orange, taking on Cornell in the D-I national championship game. It's a chance to end a career that could have gone so wrong - and for a time, did, with the Orange hitting an almost unprecedented trough in 2007 - by clinching the team's second straight national championship, a feat that hasn't been accomplished by Syracuse since 1990, when the Orange finished a string of three straight titles under legendary coach Roy Simmons, Jr.
The YES Clinics, held at a variety of NCAA championship sites during the final rounds, made their way to Gillette Stadium on Sunday. YES, which stands for 'Youth Education through Sports,' is an NCAA initiative to spread the lessons gained through sports (teamwork, determination, learning how to fake the goalie high and score on a bounce low...the usual) to the younger generation. On Sunday, hundreds of kids from all around the country -- we spoke to a group that featured one from Oneonta, N.Y., one from Atlanta, Ga. and one from parts unknown in Tennessee -- took the field at Gillette, as the YES Clinic moved to the actually championship-game surface for the first time, according to recently retired Air Force coach Fred Acee. Check out this video from Sunday for more from Acee, YES Clinics director Tim Clark and more!
Interview with Tournament Most Outstanding Player Greg CerarEnd of Game
C.W. Post 8, Le Moyne 7Le Moyne had the ball with 40 seconds left, but a kick-save by C.W. Post goalie Daniel Sciulla -- who had a tremendous fourth quarter -- preserved the game for the Pioneers, as second-seeded Post avenged a 6-5 loss earlier this year with an 8-7 win in the national championship game. End of 3rd QuarterC.W. Post 7, Le Moyne 5 The clouds are rolling in, and the rain's started to fall again. Should be a pretty wild fourth quarter. End of 1st HalfC.W. Post 4, Le Moyne 3After all that -- after three goals in the opening three minutes and six in the first quarter -- only one followed in the second, with Le Moyne sneaking in a tally. C.W. Post was about .5 of a second away from scoring at the end of the frame, but the horn blew with a shot in the air (a shot that eventually went in). Le Moyne goalie Doug McIver is keeping the Dolphins in the game, making nine saves through two periods, even as Le Moyne's getting heavily out-ground-balled and outshot. CW Post 21, Le Moyne 15 Saves: CW Post 3, Le Moyne 9 Ground balls: C.W. Post 22, Le Moyne 11 End of 1st QuarterC.W. Post 4, Le Moyne 2CW. 12 shots on goal, Le Moyne 7 Before we had a chance to even post that the game had begun, Le Moyne's Brian Welch scored off an assist from Jack Venditti just 12 seconds in to give the Dolphins a 1-0 lead over C.W. Post. ...of course, then C.W. Post came back to score two straight goals. Already, just 3:33 into the game, we've got three goals. This could be a big one.
Before Cornell and Syracuse meet in Monday's national championship game, players and coaches from the Big Red and Orange met with the media on Sunday. For video links, click here: Syracuse | CornellFor transcripts, click here: Presser TranscriptsStay tuned for tonight's Championship Game Prep Package, where we'll give you everything you need to know for Monday's final.
Team Interviews: Gettysburg | Cortland StateFeatures: Upstate Pride | Gettysburg: Taking In The BulletsNCAA.com Interactive Bracket The Cortland State Red Dragons are the champions of Division III with a 9-7 win over Gettysburg. Behind 4-2 after the first quarter, the 2006 champs (and 2007/2008 runners-up) went on a tear, holding Gettysburg scoreless for two full quarters and 38:03 total minutes. With the win, the possible Upstate New York Sweep is one-third complete. Brandon Misiaszek led the way for Cortland offensively, netting a career-high five goals, followed by Brian Krol with two. Both goalies shined, with Gettysburg's Zach Furshman making 12 saves and Cortland State's Matt Hipenbecker making 10. The championship is Cortland State's second all-time. End of 4th Quarter:Cortland State 9, Gettysburg 7 Gettysburg charged late, but it was not enough, as the Red Dragons finally broke through after two years of frustration. End of 3rd Quarter:Cortland State 9, Gettysburg 4It's become the Brandon Misiaszek show for Cortland State -- with five goals, three in the third quarter, he's now at a career high. Gettysburg, on the other hand, hasn't scored since the first quarter, with Cortland State rattling off a 7-0 run. Today's the first time in Cortland's last four title appearances that the Dragons have led after the first three quarters. End of 1st Half:
Cortland State 4, Gettysburg 4
Two unanswered goals by Cortland State in the second quarter -- and a 9-2 edge in shots -- have this one tied up.
End of 1st Quarter: Gettysburg 4, Cortland State 2Kyle McGrath has two goals so far for the Bullets, who are out-shooting the Dragons, 12-7. The rest of the game is pretty tight, with the ground balls equal and Cortland taking a 4-3 edge in face-offs.
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All season long, the Cornell Big Red Pep Band has boomed out at Cornell men's lacrosse games -- among others. So, it just seemed natural that they'd follow the Big Red to Gillette Stadium. And, over there, shaking section 142 -- as the only band to come to the Championships in the past two years -- they were the loudest part of one of the biggest wins in Cornell lacrosse history. Watch the video here, and stay tuned for more coverage as the championships roll on.
From the guys that brought you the internet phenomenon 90% of Lacrosse is in the Flow (click on the link for the full explanation of the secret weapon that's brought Gettysburg so much success this year, and here for the Facebook page), the very same Gettysburg Bullets who are out for the program's first-ever lacrosse title and the school's first-ever title in a men's sport, we bring you...notes. Lots of them. It makes sense that a team with all that on the line (and, of course, the secret weapon) should have collected as many stories as it has en route to its first national championship appearance since 2002, when it fell to Middlebury. So, refresh yourself on the Bullets before they take on Cortland State at noon on Sunday at Gillette. The game's airing live on CBS College Sports and can be followed live on our interactive bracket!
- En route to the championship game, two Bullets had to stomp on
brothers. Goalie Zach Furshman downed his brother, Greg, a midfielder
for Stevenson, in the national semifinals. A game earlier, midfielder
Andrew Ryan saw his brother, Cy, go down with Denison in the national
quarters.
- Staying on the family note, midfielder Rob Triplett's grandfather,
William Triplett, played on the Johns Hopkins team that played in a
demonstration game against the Canadian all-stars in the 1932 Los
Angeles Summer Olympics.
- More on grandfathers: Goalie John Gilfillan's grandfather, Charles
Gilfillan, was an All-American at Duke and is now in the Lacrosse Hall
of Fame. Sophomore Tommy Barnett's grandfather is Dick Vermeil; his
cousing, Jack, plays for Gettysburg rival Washington College.
- Head coach Hank Janczyk is second all-time in NCAA men's lacrosse coaching victories, behind Salisbury's Jim Berkman.
- Midfielder Tommy Kehoe was named D-III Player of the Year, the first in program history for Gettysburg.
- Finally, the Bullets' athletic director, David Wright, is a Cortland grad
- Many thanks to Gettysburg SID Braden Snyder for the help on this one.
Saturday featured two blowouts in D-I. But two very, very unexpected blowouts, as Syracuse hammered a Duke team that hadn't lost since mid-March, 17-7 and Cornell took down the top-seeded team in the Tournament (Virginia) with a 15-6 pummeling.
Check out our footage from Saturday, including pressers from all four teams and finishing with Cornell celebrating its epic upset. And for all the videos from the weekend at Gillette, head to http://www.ncaa.com/ot/mlax.html.
The D-I semifinals have finished, the press conferences aired, so take a look to see what happened on the field and what was said off of it. For Cornell/Virginia Notes & Quotes, click here. For Syracuse/Duke Notes & Quotes, click here!
By Monday, all three national championship trophies could be making their way back to three schools separated by about 25 miles. And now, with lacrosse at an all-time high in popularity, the trifecta would bring the game back to one of its birthplaces. Video Interviews: Le Moyne's Brian Welch | Cortland's Cody Hoyt and Connor Duffy | Tewaaraton Finalists, Including Syracuse's Matt AbbottTheirs is the land of forever hills and tireless clouds, of a winter that arrives always too early and lasts far too long, of cornfields and trees and rust-wrapped mills. Onondaga and Cortland Counties are places famous for their natural beauty - sitting, as they do, on the northeast tip of the Finger Lakes region - but, like the rest of Upstate, routinely abused by outsiders, including their downstate neighbors in The City. Said American singer Connie Francis: "There are some cities that I did take time out to study, because I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no." Three hundred miles from Boston, with just three games remaining in the NCAA men's lacrosse season, this place has also become perhaps the most fertile land in lacrosse. With defending D-I champ Syracuse at the center, the possibility exists that all three national championship trophies will make their way back to one 25-mile stretch in Central New York. On Sunday, in the D-II final, it'll be Le Moyne (located in Syracuse) playing for its third crown in four years, with Cortland State out for its second D-III crown in four years. And in Monday's D-I final, Syracuse takes on Cornell, a team a little outside the immediate region, but just over 50 miles from the Carrier Dome.
Click below for pictures from the first day of play!
**Sorry for the delays -- with any luck, the interactive bracket took good care of you while Ryan and I were running around the stadium shooting a few pieces, including a hard-hitting expose of the only pep band in attendance this weekend.**
End of Game - Cornell 15, Virginia 6
A pretty sizable upset in this one, Cornell dominated from start to finish. The Big Red make a return trip to the national championship for the first time since 1988, tangling with Syracuse on Monday.
End of third quarterCornell 11, Virginia 4-- Last week, Cornell held Princeton to four goals -- this effort's been even more impressive Going into the half, Cornell held an 8-2 lead over Virginia. Actually. More to come...
Saturday's second semi sees two of the country's best face-off men doing battle
Technically, his elbow isn't broken, John Glynn said. It's just fractured.
Cornell's face-off specialist has gotten used to it. He's had it since late March. Which means that every time he's out-leveraged somebody, every time he's forklifted somebody else's stick off the ground or completely out of his hands, he's done it with faulty parts.
"It's not the prettiest position, but someone's gotta do it," Glynn said.
"I saw that he's got a cast on - he's tough as hell," said Virginia face-off specialist Chad Gaudet, shaking his head.
When Virginia and Cornell meet at in the second D-I semifinal at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, it'll be a game that features two of the game's best face-off men. Playing one of the most uniquely essential and massively unheralded jobs in all of sports, Cornell's Glynn and Virginia's Gaudet - both post-grads - represent two of the biggest reasons why their teams are still alive.
Two D-I semifinal games are on the schedule at Gillette today, with Duke-Syracuse already underway and Virginia-Cornell scheduled to start at 2 p.m. For more from the games, check out our (very cool) interactive bracket http://www.ncaa.com/brackets/2009/ncaa_bracket_DI_lacrosse_men.html.
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Duke-Syracuse Updates
Syracuse wins, 17-7
- Syracuse posts most goals in a semifinal game since 2006
- Margin of victory of 10 is biggest in Duke postseason history and biggest in the national semis since 2003
End of 3rd Quarter
Syracuse up, 14-6
Kenny Nims has a hat trick. Pat Perritt has a career-high four goals. 'Cuse dominating in all aspects of the game right now.
-- Duke hasn't allowed this many goals since April 3, 2004
End of 1st Half
Syracuse carries an 8-4 lead into the half.
A few notes:
- That eight goals are tied for the most that Duke's allowed in the first half this year.
- Syracuse's Pat Perritt has three goals already, tying his career-high.
- Zach Howell has two goals for Duke
End of 1st Quarter
Syracuse's Kenny Nims scored with less than a second left on the clock to end the quarter and give the Orange a 4-2 lead going into the second
Lowe's just awarded its Senior CLASS Award for Men's Lacrosse at halftime of the first D-I semifinal, giving the award to Cornell's Max Seibald, also a Tewaaraton Trophy finalist. The award recognizes a senior athlete who, by virtue of his work on the field, in the classroom and the community, represents the top student-athlete in the country. Last year's Senior CLASS award-winner, Mike Leveille of Syracuse, went on to claim the Tewaaraton Trophy and the national championship with the Orange. Is Seibald destined for the same fate? We spoke to him yesterday about being here and finding himself on the list for the Tewaaraton.
All five of Friday's videos are now live, including the long-awaited public release of Gettysburg lacrosse: The Secret Of the Flow. Others include our interviews with the four Tewaaraton Trophy finalists taking the field Saturday, Le Moyne and Cortland (and Syracuse) representing upstate New York, and more. Check them out at http://www.ncaa.com/ot/mlax.html! And for more on the theory of how 90% of Lacrosse is in the Flow, gaining wide acceptance day by day, there intellectual epicenter is at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2226960697.
Syracuse's Kenny Nims finished the first quarter with a spinning, diving shot that just snuck into the net in time. We wrote a story about Nims at Gillette last year, when he was a junior. Now an All-American as a senior, his story -- how his father Tom, who played at Syracuse, died when Kenny was young and now Kenny wears No. 10 in his honor -- is no less compelling. Take a look if you get a chance. Click here to read on.
All four eligible Tewaaraton Trophy finalists will be on the field at Gillette on Saturday. The fifth, Zack Greer, plays for a team, Bryant, that isn't eligible for NCAA play for two more seasons after re-classifying to D-I this year. But all four had some great things to say about being here, so check it out!
Alex Cocoziello was told he'd never walk again after an accident split his skull when he was three years old. Today, roaming the sidelines, he's one of the central figures on the Cornell lacrosse team that's out for its first national championship game berth in more than 20 years.
FOXBOROUGH, MASS. -- For nine months, Sharon Cocoziello dozed through her nights in a hospital chair. Every day, she'd sit beside her son, Alex, as he healed from head trauma that doctors estimated would leave the right side of his body paralyzed forever. Every night, she'd fight the nurses who told her she had to go home. She would, invariably, win.
"I never left," she said. "They didn't want me there. Parents weren't allowed to sleep over. They had to change the rules after seeing how he progressed because I was there."
When Alex Cocoziello was rushed into emergency brain surgery 18 years ago, the three-year-old's cranium split open after his father accidentally hit him on the downswing with a golf club, doctors told Sharon that Alex had a 30 percent chance of surviving the surgery. After that, they told her Alex's right side would be paralyzed forever, that the Cocoziellos should prepare their house for a permanently handicapped child.
She fired them.
Friday closed with the first-ever Friday Night Live at Patriot Place, adjacent to Gillette Stadium, an event marked by live music (courtesy of Boston-based The Luxury), fireworks and the anticipation of the Championships, set to start on Saturday. Families and friends came down, found seats, and took it all in. This group, out of Walpole, came out for the whole event. If you're interested in meeting them, they'll be tailgating on Saturday morning at 8 a.m. ...allegedly.  From left to right: Brian Healey, Cindy Thulin, Mike St. Germaine, Andrew Blood, Robbie Busch, Mark Neyden Click on a picture to enlarge. 
    
Gillette Stadium might not be the most likely place to find somebody who can count pi out to about 40 digits (3.1415925...?), but...we found him. Click here to see more.
For the first time in three seasons, third-seeded Duke's the underdog on Memorial Day Weekend. And that makes the Blue Devils very happy. And very dangerous, as they look for their first national title. Duke spent the last five minutes of practice at Gillette Stadium on Friday lined up in the wing T. With five down lineman - including Tewaaraton Trophy finalist Ned Crotty - down in stances across from a defense composed of coaches, the Blue Devils ran a few plays from scrimmage. First, a fly pattern down the right side. Incomplete. Then, a fade down the left that hit Max Quinzani square in the pocket...and fell to the turf. On third and long, it was a QB throwback that went just a little far past Jason Orlando stick. Finally, on fourth and forever, a hook and ladder that got the hook part right, but saw the lateral roll off the field for a rare turnover on the Patriots' home field.  "We didn't execute very well out there," said Duke coach John Danowski with a laugh. The Duke team that practiced on Friday at Gillette Stadium resembled in many ways the one that took the field on the Friday before Memorial Day last year. The size, the speed, the ability to pick a mosquito off the top corner with a shot from 20 yards out - that was all the same. But the biggest difference was also the loudest. This team was yelling, laughing, jumping around, running throwback passes. The 2008 Blue Devils, the owners of one of the top offenses in the history of the game of lacrosse, let alone college, came into Gillette as the team expected to win. To win big. But more, with the program still healing from the damage inflicted by the 2006 rape allegations scandal, they were expected to win for the program.
For a full video recap of the first day at Gillette, click here.
Click here for our weekend preview podcast!Some notes and assembled facts from Media Day: - Virginia's Matt Kelly can count to about 40 digits in pi. We'll have that video up very soon to explain how. And why. And how he celebrates March 14 every year (3.14) - Pi Day. - Duke's flight landed around 5 p.m., right when the other three teams were prepping for media day. Most of them showed up with Mohawks. - Max Quinzani, the Duke attackman, is back in his hometown. We noted last year that the Quinzani's own a pretty successful bakery in Boston, the one that supplies Gillette with its rolls. We're gonna shoot a segment from the bakery at some point this weekend, so if you happen to be an enthusiast of lacrosse or baguette, stay tuned. - The Gillette catering service barbecues and smokes all of its meat on the premises. Awesome.
 Last year, Gretchen Meltzer's team underestimated things. Badly, Meltzer, the direct of catering at Gillette Stadium, said. In 2008, in the first year that the Men's Lacrosse Championships took place at Gillette - the first time that any lacrosse game at all took place at Gillette, home of the New England Patriots - the caterers planned for about 240 people at the welcome banquet, she said. There were a little under 200 people eating. "They ate us out of house and home last year," Meltzer said with a laugh. "You watch five plates go by, and then they come back for more." This year, roughly the same amount of people showed up to the banquet. The caterers planned for 400.
The Men's Lacrosse Championships at Gillette Stadium officially opened up with Media Day and the team dinners on Thursday, a day packed with wide-eyed players looking up at 69,000 vacant seats at Gillette, All-American attackmen sporting Lady Gaga sunglasses, a buffet that was designed for 500 people that was easily dispensed with by about 200 lacrosse players and coaches, a delayed flight from Durham, some Cornell-attire-bashing from John Kraft (president of the Kraft Group) and a lot more.
Check back later for video from Day One, including but not limited to tournament director Phil Buttafuoco explaining how Gillette '09 is going to blow away Gillette '08 and a Virginia defenseman counting out pi to almost 40 digits.
And also, stay tuned for a full wrap of the day and a story on a member of the Cornell team who, two decades ago, wasn't sure if he'd walk again.
Just a few hours from now, we'll be at Media Day at the Lacrosse Championships at Gillette Field, where all eight teams -- players, coaches, SID's, pets -- will be on the field, ready to tell their stories, at least when they're not staring up in awe at the Gillette stands. It's a great time. Here, Ryan -- our intrepid video guy -- and I are going to be shooting a ton of features, gathering lots of stories for the blog and, with any luck, eating some cheddar Goldfish in the press room.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kevin Scheitrum
The lacrosse editor for NCAA.com, Kevin is covering his second Championship Weekend at Gillette Stadium. A lot has changed since last year for the native Pennsylvanian and BU grad: The Phillies won the World Series, BU won the Men's D-I Hockey national title and he discovered half-priced sushi.
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