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	National Lacrosse League - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is the professional league of men's indoor lacrosse in North America.
		The NLL was formed in 1997 from the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL), with the decision to move from league ownership of all teams to individual team ownership.
		It changed its name to Major Indoor Lacrosse League in May 1988, and then to the National Lacrosse League in 1998.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/National_Lacrosse_League (655 words)

	Major League Lacrosse: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com
		The MILL was a professional men 's indoor lacrosse league in North...men 's indoor lacrosse league in North America.
		Major League Lacrosse is a professional lacrosse league played in the United States.
		MLL rules that differ from traditional lacrosse rules include: a two-point goal line 15 yards from each goal, a 45 second shot clock, a limit of three long stick defenseman (per team), the elimination of the restraining box and all players are released on the face-off.
	www.encyclopedian.com /ma/Major-League-Lacrosse.html (255 words)

	Major League Lacrosse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Major League Lacrosse is a professional field lacrosse league played in the United States.
		MLL rules that differ from traditional lacrosse rules include: a two-point goal line 15 yards from each goal, a 60-second shot clock, a limit of three long-stick defensemen per team, the elimination of the restraining box and the release of all players on the face-off.
		The league was divided into the American Division — Boston, Bridgeport (moved to Philadelphia in 2004) and Long Island — and the National Division — Baltimore, New Jersey and Rochester — from 2001 until 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Major_League_Lacrosse (376 words)

	Lacrosse
		In box lacrosse the goal is smaller (4' X 4') than in outdoor lacrosse (and the goaltender usually bigger).
		Indoor lacrosse is a less violent version of box lacrosse played professionally during the winter not only in regions where summer lacrosse is popular but in regions where lacrosse is rarely played in summer.
		Players may use only hollow metal sticks (box lacrosse permits solid sticks) and may not crosscheck (crosschecking – hitting another player with the stick with one's hands apart on the shaft – is legal, within limits, in box lacrosse).
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/la/Lacrosse.html (634 words)

	Mill - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
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		Major Indoor Lacrosse League - Indoor Lacrosse league, rebranded in 2001 as the National Lacrosse League.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Mill (283 words)

	Lacrosse: E-Lacrosse Lacrosse History, Links and Sources
		Box lacrosse is different from field lacrosse in that the field is much smaller, usually a hockey rink covered with astroturf, and there are six players on a team.
		This form of lacrosse was not played or even well-known in the U.S. until 1987, when two businessmen from Kansas City, Chris Fritz and Russ Cline, formed the Eagle Box Lacrosse League in search of a sports promotion.
		Many lacrosse purists felt that the Eagle League was detrimental to the game of lacrosse as a whole because of its violent play and its vast differences from traditional field lacrosse.
	www.e-lacrosse.com /laxhist8.htm (768 words)

	HickokSports.com - History - Lacrosse
		Lacrosse in the U. Lacrosse had pretty well died out in the northern United States by the middle of the nineteenth century, but it was revived in upstate New York during the late 1860s by the Onondaga tribe, influenced by the St. Regis tribe, which was among those still active in Canada.
		Although lacrosse didn't become very popular as a men's sport in England, it was adapted for women's play during the 1890s, mainly because it was seen as the ideal spring sport for women who played field hockey during the fall.
		Lacrosse was a demonstration sport at the Olympics in 1928, 1932, and 1948, and an exhibition tournament was held at the Los Angeles Olympics in 1980.
	www.hickoksports.com /history/lacrosse.shtml (1421 words)

	Box lacrosse - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Box lacrosse was invented in the 1930s as a way to promote business for ice hockey arenas, and quickly became the most popular version of the sport in Canada.
		Box lacrosse is also the more popular version of the game in the Czech Republic, probably due to the locals' familiarity with ice hockey.
		Box lacrosse and field lacrosse are played under two very different sets of rules and on very different surfaces, however most of the national representatives of the Canadian and Iroquois Nationals field lacrosse teams are primarily box lacrosse players.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indoor_lacrosse (600 words)

	About Lacrosse
		Lacrosse, field game played by two opposing teams, with a ball and a special netted stick, or crosse, with which the ball is caught, carried, and thrown.
		Men's lacrosse is played on a field 60 yd (55 m) wide and 110 yd (100 m) long, including 15 yd (14 m) of clear space behind each goal.
		The object of lacrosse is to send the ball, using the crosse, through the goalposts of the opposing team.
	www.bvlacrosse.com /game.htm (1238 words)

	Lacrosse (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Designating Lacrosse as an official sport is more of a nod to history than a reflection of the present-day situation, because very few people in Canada actually play or follow lacrosse, certainly far fewer than follow or play hockey, football, baseball, basketball, soccer, tennis, golf and other sports.
		Canadians most commonly play box lacrosse, an indoor version of the game played by teams of six on ice hockey rinks from which the ice has been removed; the enclosed playing area is called the box, in contrast to the open playing field of the traditional game.
		Indoor lacrosse is a version of box Lacrosse played professionally during the winter not only in regions where summer Lacrosse is popular but also in regions where Lacrosse is rarely played in summer.
	lacrosse.iqnaut.net.cob-web.org:8888 (1559 words)

	Major Indoor Lacrosse League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The Major Indoor Lacrosse League was the forerunner to the National Lacrosse League.
		The MILL was a professional men's indoor lacrosse league in North America.
		The MILL disbanded in 1997 at the time the NLL was and five of the MILL teams joined NLL.
	www.freeglossary.com /Major_Indoor_Lacrosse_League (344 words)

	Outsider's Guide - Lacrosse 101 - Team History
		Then again, only two other teams were in the league at its inception in 1987 (as the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League).
		Like many other leagues in their infancy, the league (renamed Major Indoor Lacrosse League in 1988) moved to expand quickly, adding franchises in Detroit and New England in just its third season.
		Since then, a handful of teams have relocated or suspended operations, and the league now spans from coast to coast in the United States and is in three major Canadian cities.
	www.lacrosse-network.com /outsidersguide/teamhistory.htm (736 words)

	Outsider's Guide - News Update
		The combined league was essentially the old MILL, but featuring two important changes -- franchises had been added in Syracuse and Hamilton, and each team now had its own owner instead of all teams being owned by the same group.
		On the fifth anniversary of the league's "founding," it's only fair to take a few moments to consider the events since then which have shaped the league into what it is today and are helping it get to where management would like it to be.
		Jennings was eager to change that, knowing that the only way to be treated as a major league was to be in major cities across both the United States and Canada.
	www.lacrosse-network.com /outsidersguide/opin020721.htm (1476 words)

	US Lacrosse -- History of Native American Lacrosse
		Lacrosse was one of many varieties of indigenous stickball games being played by American Indians at the time of European contact.
		Lacrosse was given its name by early French settlers, using the generic term for any game played with a curved stick (crosse) and a ball.
		Still, while the majority of the games ended peaceably, much of the ceremonialism surrounding their preparations and the rituals required of the players were identical to those practiced before departing on the warpath.
	www.lacrosse.org /museum/history.phtml (1811 words)

	The Difference Between The NLL And MLL - Minnesota Swarm
		The League has been in existence since 1987, and was first known as the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL).
		The game of indoor lacrosse is played within the confines of an ice hockey rink with the boards and glass intact.
		Major League Lacrosse (MLL) is a professional outdoor lacrosse league in its third season of operation.
	www.mnswarm.com /news/news.asp?news_id=6 (220 words)

	The Greatest Team in Professional Indoor Lacrosse History
		The expansion franchise lost its first three games of Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL) play by an average of four goals a game, the coach was replaced, the roster was shaken up and the Bandits did not lose again for over two years.
		The PLPA is one of the major reasons the MILL where all teams were owned by the league morphed into the NLL with an individual ownership model.
		John is still considered by many to be the best pure indoor lacrosse player in the world and has a nasty streak to rival most “tough guys” in the NLL today.
	www.evilempirelacrosse.com /123104michaelcatena.htm (810 words)

	1995 Wings Articles
		The defending Major Indoor Lacrosse League champion Philadelphia Wings received a major blow yesterday when the MILL announced that 1994 team MVP and crowd favorite Paul Gait has been assigned to the expansion Rochester (N.Y.) Knighthawks for the upcoming season.
		The Major Indoor Lacrosse League champion Philadelphia Wings traded forwards Rob Shek and John Blatchley to the Baltimore Thunder for the Thunder's 1996 first-round draft pick and future considerations.
		He used to be a playmaker, running the carpets of the Major Indoor Lacrosse League with the kind of abandon with which he ran the outdoor fields at Penn State.
	www.wingszone.com /whistory/a95.htm (5484 words)

	Major League Lacrosse
		Major League Lacrosse has yet to play its inaugural game, as the league has begun its Summer Showcase, an all-star tour traveling to potential MLL cities around the eastern part of the United States.
		The league is in its sixth season, having expanded westward.
		The group plays in a charity lacrosse tournament each year and will soon be holding a guest bartending night at a local bar to raise money to fund an inter-city lacrosse team.
	www.majorleaguelacrosse.com /news/?id=4430 (736 words)

	major indoor lacrosse - Everything indoor World
		Lacrosse grew in popularity in the U.S. primarily on the college circuit.
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	www.withoutexception.net /major-indoor-lacrosse (359 words)

	AZSPORTSFAN.COM: Members: Sports Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Indoor professional lacrosse is an exciting, fast paced, physical game that local fans will really enjoy." The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is North America's professional indoor lacrosse league, and plays during the winter and spring months.
		The league was formed in 1987, and was first known as the Major Indoor Lacrosse League (MILL).
		The league formed a strong base in the Northeastern United States before its recent push into the Western half of the U.S. and Canada.
	azsportsfan.com /members/sports/08282003.html (907 words)

	National Lacrosse League
		The National Lacrosse League is the professional league of men's indoor lacrosse in North America.
		Indoor lacrosse is a less violent version of box lacrosse.
		Crosschecking and sticks with solid shafts are not allowed; these differences allow more running than in box lacrosse.
	www.guajara.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/n/na/national_lacrosse_league.html (131 words)

	1990 Wings Articles
		While the decline was partially because of league organizers expanding too quickly, the final blow was the inability of two of the league's six franchises to find a place to play in 1976, he said.
		It was the Northeast, however, that the Canadian Lacrosse Association targeted for a series of indoor lacrosse matchups in the mid-1980s.
		After the Wings won their second league championship, and were presented with the goofy-looking multi-layered erstatz Stanley Cup trophy, the players ran over to a section of the crowd where Philadelphia fans were concentrated and dedicated their victory to them.
	www.wingszone.com /whistory/a90.htm (6639 words)

	Professional lacrosse makes it big in Toronto - Lacrosse: A History of Canada's Game - CBC Archives
		Pro box lacrosse is taking Toronto by storm thanks to the success of the Toronto Rock of the National Lacrosse League.
		Even more amazing is the fact few of the players in the league make their living from lacrosse.
		Players are paid between $400 and $1200 a game and the majority of them have full-time jobs or go to school on the side.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-41-824-4865/sports/lacrosse/clip7 (473 words)

	TSN - Canada's Sports Leader (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The five charter members are league founders Russ Cline and Chris Fritz; legendary lacrosse stars Gary Gait and Paul Gait, and the late Les Bartley, the winningest coach in league history.
		Paul Gait is the league's fourth all-time leading scorer with 712 career points, and is third all-time in goals scored with 410 and ninth all-time in assists with 302.
		The league will also recognize the contributions of journalists, broadcasters and other who have made a contribution to the game of professional indoor lacrosse.
	www.tsn.ca /news_Story.asp?ID=128120 (897 words)

	major league lacrosse - Alien Soup
		I'm just saying that the appeal isn't broad enough to maintain a pro league and have it be any kind of success that rivals the other major league sports.
		lacrosse is definitely the coming sport, if you ask me. it's fast-paced and high-scoring (meaning it could satisfy the two-second attention span of the average american sports watcher), and is developing and changing very rapidly.
		I used to see ads for the Major Indoor Lacrosse League all the time, especially when the Gait brothers were the big attractions for Philly.
	forums.aliensoup.com /showthread.php?t=4928 (1020 words)

	SLAM! Sports - Lacrosse - Pressure-packed
		The National Lacrosse League's showcase tilt today at the Saddledome is being beamed live into 160 million homes by NBC, making it the most important game in the history of the sport when it comes to exposure.
		The 36 players taking part in the contest have the opportunity to sell the league to a whole new group of people in Canada, the U.S., Europe and Asia, making the tilt a pivotal moment in time for the NLL as it strives to grow and become a major professional league.
		A member of both Team Canada's national indoor and field lacrosse teams, Gary was named the NLL's league MVP six times.
	slam.canoe.ca /Slam/Lacrosse/2005/02/26/943453-sun.html (694 words)

	Lacrosse's biggest Gait attractions - Lacrosse: A History of Canada's Game - CBC Archives
		Canadian brothers Gary and Paul Gait are the biggest superstars of the National Lacrosse League, rewriting the record books and changing the way the game is played with their unique, physical style.
		Gary Gait won five straight league MVP honours from 1995 to 1999, and again in 2003.
		One of their more famous manoeuvres is called 'Air-Gait': similar to a slam dunk in basketball, it entails a player running behind the goal and then jumping out from behind, reaching over the net with your stick and stuffing the ball into the back of the net.
	archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-41-824-4866/sports/lacrosse/clip8 (379 words)

	Lacrosse Media Guide 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Rob Bonaventura is the fifth all-time leading scorer in Hampden-Sydney lacrosse history and he rates in the top-six in goals scored and assists for his career.
		The top scorer in Hampden-Sydney’s lacrosse history, John Gibson was the first lacrosse player to be inducted into the H-SC Hall of Fame.
		As a lacrosse player, he was a first-team All-ODAC midfielder in 1989, helping the Tigers to an 11-3 record and NCAA berth.
	www.hsc.edu /athletics/lacrosse/2005/mediaguide/hallfame.html (854 words)

	Stuff
		National Lacrosse League players have returned to practice, and are close to signing a collective bargaining agreement with managment, according to members of the players union who talked to fans in the Buffalo, NY area on Tuesday, 12-2-97.
		The players say they informed the League of the potential new owner, but the League did nothing to reach an agreement with him, and that's when the players struck practice.
		The negotiations were apparently bitter at times, with repeated threats by the League to close down.
	members.tripod.com /~SaintsLax/stuff.htm (833 words)

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