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NLL 2008 Season cancelled!!!

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jmason
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Seriously... wtf?!? 2008 season cancelled! This sucks ass!
Oct 16 2007 4:15PM
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currentwestman
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probably sound dumb, but wuts the NLL?
Oct 16 2007 4:16PM
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skithedirt
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NLL???
Oct 16 2007 4:17PM
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eheath
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Oh nose!!!!
Oct 16 2007 4:17PM
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Eazy_Eags
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National Lacrosse League, and why is it canceled?!
Oct 16 2007 4:18PM
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skithedirt
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ah lacrosse

Oct 16 2007 4:19PM
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jmason
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because the players association and the league couldn't come to an agreement. (same thing that happened to the NHL a couple years ago)
Oct 16 2007 4:23PM
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anxju
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FUCKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oct 16 2007 4:25PM
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Lax_Bro40
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indoor lacrosse is terrible. its nothing like the real game 
Oct 16 2007 4:59PM
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Thomson.
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http://www.nll.com/article.php?id=3127
Oct 16 2007 5:05PM
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TerminatorX
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ya thats stupid. im a lax player and i dont know much about the situation, but i think its retarded how this is happening in lax because there is no money in this industry anyway. why would the players be demanding money that they dont even have?
Oct 16 2007 5:05PM
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jmason
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wrong?
Oct 16 2007 5:29PM
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seemeski
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That's disappointing...but I'd rather watch college lacrosse anyway.
Oct 16 2007 5:34PM
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Thomson.
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College lacrosse is my favorite also, way way way better than MLL and just a little better than the NLL.
Oct 16 2007 5:38PM
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___ASP___
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ya it sucks, lacross is a great game, and box is way better than outdoor!
Oct 16 2007 5:44PM
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RedBaron882
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damn it seems they encountered a black hole similar to the nhl a few years back.  sucks ass

Oct 16 2007 5:51PM
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jmason
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AND... I was gonna have season tickets to the Toronto Rock... jesus fuck
Oct 16 2007 6:04PM
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beer.
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lol yeah i know, if youre a pro lax player the majority of the time you have a second job
Oct 16 2007 6:05PM
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KRASHED
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wow that sucks, I was planning an outing to watch the Toronto Rock sometime this winter....shit
Oct 16 2007 8:11PM
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cofreeskier
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Meh...i dont like the NLL, theyre trying to make it into like entertainment, and lacrosse should be entertaining, but with all the cheap shots and shit like that it is just gay. Its just not how the game should be played, not too many of those guys even like switch hands in the games its ridiculous. I like the MLL better...
Oct 16 2007 8:15PM
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cobra_commander
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MLL blows, I mean come on no body checks, NLL is better, and it blows it won't be happening, but college is still the best.
Oct 16 2007 8:24PM
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billysexcrime
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MLL is loaded with body checks, buut yeah nll's are sicker....season canceled=PISSSSSSSS
Oct 16 2007 8:31PM
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bigwhite.steeze
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gayyyyyy as fuck

and if anyone wants into the lacrosse cult pm, me
Oct 16 2007 8:34PM
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M+M
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wow that is whack, it was just getting so popular, they were getting new teams across the country, well college lax is still ill
Oct 16 2007 8:37PM
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Albrecht.
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worst possible time for this to happen to pro lacrosse
Oct 16 2007 8:43PM
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Valind
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DENVER – The Colorado Mammoth will not take the field in 2008 after it was announced Tuesday morning that the National Lacrosse League has cancelled the entire season.
The Mammoth says the cancellation was triggered by the Professional Lacrosse Players Association's executive committee rejecting the league's last collective bargaining agreement proposal.

"I would like to apologize to our fans, first and foremost," NLL commissioner Jim Jennings said in a statement. "We are deeply disappointed that the PLPA's executive committee rejected our proposal without permitting all of the players to vote on the league's final offer. The offer included annual raises for all players in each year of the contract. Our owners made the best offer they could make while maintaining a sound business model."

"Colorado's fans have been the best in the league since the day we got here and we are incredibly disappointed to let them down. We're going to fix what is broken and come back stronger than ever," said Colorado Mammoth general manager Steve Govett in a statement.

The Mammoth won the NLL Champion's Cup in 2006 and has ranked among the top two in attendance for the league since it began playing in Denver in 2003.

Jennings said this was the fourth time the league has had to negotiate a collective bargaining in the past seven years.

"Professional sports leagues cannot do business without the stability of a long-term collective bargaining agreement. We will use this year to improve not only our relationship with our players but to improve our overall business model," said Jennings.

Mammoth season ticket holders will receive a letter soon regarding additional sports options at Pepsi Center. They can also call their season ticket services representative at 303-405-1101.
Oct 16 2007 9:04PM
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Lax_Bro40
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i agree with you 100%. NLL is just like a bnunch of big idiots trying to kill each other.  lets actually get some skill and try to play outdoors where the gaME IS SUPPOST TO  be played.  indoor is a joke.. i mean for example you can have ur pocket as deep as you want it,,, and im not trying to brag but im good at lacrosse but not close to pro... give me a stick with a deep enough pocket and i can jumpin with those guys, buy MLL... no way
Oct 16 2007 10:50PM
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jmason
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no there's a pocket limit
Oct 17 2007 4:49PM
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Eazy_Eags
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season was saved


http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/news/story?id=3079268
Oct 25 2007 7:50PM
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BMskier
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i was thinking the national little league. like baseball until i read a little. i didnt even know a national lacross league existed
Oct 25 2007 8:13PM
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PacificRimJob
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Yeah.. i was bummed to find out. I loved going to the games in San Jose.

Hopefully the league doesnt get disbanded forever...
Oct 25 2007 8:15PM
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coop-son
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damn sannnn

Oct 25 2007 9:08PM
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Shpadoinkle
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NHL had no money. the lightning stole it all. GO TAMPA! hehehehe. whooda thunk it?
Oct 25 2007 10:25PM
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solitaryman
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lol epic!?
Oct 25 2007 10:38PM
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PacificRimJob
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THE SEASON IS BACK ON PEOPLE.
Oct 30 2007 6:35AM
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STACKS
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bummer
Oct 30 2007 10:21AM
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fragglemuffin
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SEASONS BACK ON!!!!!!!   GO BANDITS!!!!!
Oct 30 2007 12:15PM
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jmason
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Nah I play D in box - it's better without long poles. I play attack in field just because I hate the feeling of long pole... plus it's way harder to handle in fakes and stuff with a long pole
Oct 30 2007 7:53PM
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jmason
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^^no.

TORONTO ROCK!!! jea!
Oct 30 2007 7:56PM
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jmason
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maybe so... but i just find long pole so hard to use. Also, when I tried (I played long pole for a season) to do what you say and keep the ball out of their reach, my stick just got clipped and I lost the ball. I just like the ball close to me, cuz then I can keep it under control
Oct 30 2007 9:33PM
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[tightpants]
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Are you guys that are saying this even lacrosse players? The NLL is cool but its just a gimmick game. Its not even lacrosse other than the fact that they use lacrosse equipment.  People go to see fights and hits and shit. They don't go to watch lacrosse.  The MLL is where all the good players are and where the future of pro lacrosse is.  If you watched the MLL you would realize that the game is played very similarly to College Lacrosse.  Yea the NLL's season being cancelled is a blow to lacrosse and it sucks, but if you knew what you were talking about you wouln't be hating on the MLL.  And I do agree- college lacrosse is still the most exciting. But all of the players that are in college right now are going to be in the MLL in a few years.  At least the good ones.  So I don't get where you guys are getting these ideas.
Oct 30 2007 9:48PM
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lushlaxstr
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what the helllll
Oct 30 2007 9:49PM
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jmason
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^^2 things.

1. The season is back on...

2. I play and watch both. I think that there are good lacrosse players in both, and that both take different skills. Box lacrosse is a much scrappier game, and although there are more fights, you can't possibly say that they aren't good lacrosse players, nor that people go to watch fights and not the game. You are only saying that because you don't know, and you only enjoy MLL... I do know, I do enjoy both, and I know that you're wrong.
Oct 30 2007 10:24PM
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