Lacrosse stick

The majority of my lacrosse career depended upon my natural talent. With little work, I could coast and still outclass the majority of my teammates. That is, I could until I was pushed onto varsity as a sophomore. Instead of getting the steady playing time I expected, I was only permitted to enter the game when things got out out hand. Frustrated, I asked my father what I could do to earn a reliable spot on the field, and he told me that if I augmented talent with practice and outworked the…

Origins can sometimes be a difficult thing to trace and understand. That includes the sport hockey. Hockey is a fast paced game played on ice that is very complex and simple at the same time, but the roots of the game are not as precise as other sports' roots. The exact start of hockey is hard to tell because it was not recorded since the beginning and making of the game, but there are also beginnings in hockey that are set in stone such as the first organized hockey game, the first hockey…

ancient people hundreds of years ago. Some of these sports have been evolved a bit, but not a lot. of them have been. One of the popular games they played was Pa-tol sticks; this sport is very similar to Javelin today. This is just one of the many sports we play today that came from the ancient people long ago. Other sports they invented lacrosse, hidden ball, double ball, and chunky. Some of the sports they played are corn husk shuttlecocks…

cage of my face mask and bit down on my mouthguard determined to win the game. Being the oldest person on a team with girls who haven’t played before this year gave me a sense of leadership. I was, not trying to brag, the best player on the team. Lacrosse is a hard sport to play, and dangerous too. I got more than half of the points on the scoreboard. I played the midey position which is were you play offense and defense and you have to run the field a lot. The other team wasn’t half bad for…

your beard whenever works best for you. Some people choose to grow it out during the winter months. Others choose to begin growing their beard during vacation while away from work. Yet others choose to grow during football/hockey/baseball/soccer/lacrosse/etc season. Others do it to support national causes like Movember (prostate cancer research) or any other worthy charity. It really doesn't matter when you begin... just pick a date and stop shaving! One of the biggest mistakes men make is…

The bright orange flashes briefly between the forest of legs and sticks. I bend my knees. I know the shot is coming soon. Clack. There. My brain registers in a split second the direction the ball is coming from and I pull back my foot, making contact with the bottom of the sphere, sending it flying through the air. The adrenaline rush dies down as the ball is dribbled down the field by my teammate. I let out a thankful breath. I’ve been looking forward to this all summer: the first game of the…

As with many other children growing up, my parents liked to dump me somewhere where i could use arbitrary skills to best other children in competitions. The modern fascination and glorification of sports causes parents to want to have some child superstar. In reality only a hundred thousandth of a percent of the world can make a career out of their sport. Now, not all who play sports have the goal of going pro. Many play a variety of sports for purely recreational purposes. Most, if not all,…

Choctaw stickball was one of the early versions of what lacrosse is like today. If war was brewing between two Choctaw villages, stickball was a peaceful way to deal with the issues. It was often called “the little brother of war”. The amount of players that usually played in a stickball game would vary from twenty…

Hello Dad, I have been contemplating writing this letter for sometime now, but I haven’t been able to decided when the best time to write it would be, and now seemed like the best time considering the events that have occurred this morning. First, let me share with you that in no way shape or form did I ever intended on hurting your feelings with my comment about “giving my childhood back.” It was simply intended as a joke. I also clearly had no intentions of touching on a sensitive subject…

Grace Collier was the girl that everyone would stare at. With her studded and beaded jewelry, her well-known combat boots and her eyeliner is was kind of hard not to stare. Everything changed when she was sexually assaulted by the captain of the lacrosse team, Zac McMahon. Raped while she was unconscious,…