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SOMERVILLE, NJ — The North American Lacrosse League announced today that their 2012 season will begin September 15th and will run until mid-December. Teams that will participate in the upcoming season are Charlotte, Hershey, Jacksonville, and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton. The players who have already signed on for the upcoming season will still have their spots on their team in the fall. The league also announced another important factor for their upcoming season. Read More…

The Chesapeake Bayhawks of Major League Lacrosse (MLL) have announced today that former University of Maryland men’s lacrosse head coach and current Bayhawks’ President Dave Cottle has been named the next head coach according to owner Brendan Kelly. The announcement was made during a press conference call held on January 5, 2012. Read More…

BOSTON, Mass. (Monday, December 12, 2011) – Major League Lacrosse (MLL) announced Monday the regular and post-season schedules for the 2012 season, according to MLL Commissioner David Gross. Read More…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (December 7, 2011) – The Charlotte Hounds have acquired the 2011 MLL Rookie of the Year, Jeremy Boltus, with their first pick (#2 overall) in the 2012 MLL Expansion Draft. Selected with the Hamilton Nationals’ eighth round pick in the 2011 MLL Collegiate Draft, the former United States Military Academy attackman was the Nationals’ leading goal scorer with 19 goals and contributed 11 assists, which ranked third on the team. Read More…

It has been rumored that the NLL has canceled its season for 2011. We would like to announce that this is not true. How do we know? NLL representatives weren’t available for questions so we went to the best source available, LaxTweets.com. At LaxTweets we were able to track when it was first alleged that the National Lacrosse League was canceling its season and then finally determine that the rumors were false when NLL Commissioner, George Daniel, stated that the NLL Twitter account had been hacked. Read how the whole story transpired after the jump. Continue…

Rapstix has now licensed with MLL and selling the 9.95 MLL Series and RapStix line at all MLL game venues. All wraps are also available online. Take a look at images of the new MLL wraps.

Long Island City, NY, May 27, 2010 — Maverik Lacrosse (www.maveriklacrosse.com) and Maverik Films today unveiled its third “BE READY” film/TV commercial featuring Maverik Soldier and newly signed Red Bull athlete Paul Rabil. This groundbreaking commercial directed by Jay Jalbert was produced in cooperation with Red Bull and filmed at the Red Bull Arena in Harrison, New Jersey. The commercial will air nationally for the first time on May 29 during the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Final Four on ESPN2 and again May 31 on ESPN during the Championship game and throughout the day on SportsCenter.View Commercial…

New York, May 5, 2010 – John Gagliardi today announced that he will not be returning to the Long Island Lizards for the start of the 2010 Major League Lacrosse season and will retire from playing professionally. John will instead concentrate his efforts on growing his 15-person lacrosse equipment company Maverik Lacrosse, teaching players the… MORE AFTER THE JUMP…