NCAA Lacrosse Final Four weekend -One of my favorite sports weekends of the year - 2013 NCAA Men's & Women's Lacrosse Final Four from Philadelphia

http://espn.go.com/video/clip?id=espn:9293097

Womens Semifinals being streamed LIVE Friday night via 
http://espn.go.com/watchespn/player?id=886438

2013 NCAA Lacrosse Championship - Semifinal #1: 

Cornell Big Red vs #7 Duke Blue Devils from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Saturday  May 25  2:30 p.m., ESPN2, DirecTV Channel 209 

2013 NCAA Lacrosse Championship - Semifinal #2: 
#4 Denver Pioneers vs #1 Syracuse Orange from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Saturday  May 25  5:00 p.m., ESPN2, DirecTV Channel 209

Repeat showings:

Semifinal #1: Cornell Big Red vs Duke Blue Devils 

Sunday  May 26  6:00 a.m. ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

Semifinal #2: Denver Pioneers vs Syracuse Orange 

Sunday  May 26  8:00 a.m. ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

http://espn.go.com/espnw/college-sports/9310210/2013-women-lacrosse-final-four-north-carolina-uses-toughness-advance-face-maryland

2013 NCAA Women's Lacrosse Championship from Villanova Stadium in Villanova, PA.

Sunday  May 26  8:00 p.m. ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208

2013 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship from Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia.

Monday  May 27  1:00 p.m. ESPN, DirecTV Channel 206 

SkyCam Presentation at 1:00 p.m. ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship Post Game 

Monday  May 27  3:30 p.m. ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208

Recap of the championship game: highlights, analysis, interviews with players and coaches

Repeat showings:

2013 NCAA Women's College Lacrosse - Championship from Villanova Stadium in Villanova, PA.

Monday  May 27  7:00 p.m. ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

2013 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Championship 

Monday  May 27  9:00 p.m. ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

Tuesday  May 28  1:00 a.m.ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

Tuesday  May 28  7:00 a.m. ESPNU DirecTV Channel 208 

Taped broadcasts: 

2013 NCAA Women's College Lacrosse Semifinals: 
Semifinal #1

#3 North Carolina Tar Heels vs #2 Northwestern Wildcats

Tuesday  May 28  1:00 p.m. ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

Semifinal #2: 

#4 Syracuse Orange vs #1 Maryland Terrapins

Tuesday  May 28  2:30 p.m. ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

Virginia Cavaliers begin defense of their NCAA Mens Lacrosse crown as NCAA's D-1 tourney starts today; "The Big Game: Duke at Virginia Men's Lacrosse"

The Big Game: Duke at Virginia Men's Lacrosse, Episode One of  Three. April 19, 2012.
http://youtu.be/fXoo-3OYQ1o


Now I finally have a good reason to post these behind-the-scenes videos of last month's Duke at UVA match, where the then-number one-ranked Cavaliers lost to the Blue Devils, the 2010 NCAA champs at Klöckner Stadium.


The 2012 NCAA D-1 tourney starts Saturday with the 16 best teams, and UVA's defense of its hard-fought NCAA Mens Lacrosse crown begins in the lead-off game on Sunday against Princeton.


The Virginia Lacrosse Experience: http://www.experienceuvasports.com/index2-ml.php


Here's this weekend's TV schedule, with all eight games on the tube.
Saturday, May 12th:

Noon-2 p.m. -Syracuse at Duke, ESPN, DirecTV Channel 206

2:30-4:30 p.m. -Colgate at UMass, ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208

5-7 p.m. -Canisius at Loyola MD), ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208

730-930 p.m. -Denver at North Carolina, ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208

Sunday, May 13th

1-3 p.m. -Princeton at Virginia, ESPN, DirecTV Channel 206

3-5 p.m. -Stony Brook at Johns Hopkins, ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208

515-715 p.m. -Yale at Notre Dame, ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208

730-930 p.m. -Maryland at Lehigh, ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208

ESPNU Lacrosse Podcast: Quint Kessenich Talks Dom Starsia, Rob Rotanz, NCAA First Round
By Terry Foy, May 9th, 2012

http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2012/05/09/espnu-lacrosse-podcast-quint-kessenich-talks-dom-starsia-rob-rotanz-ncaa-first-round



The Big Game: Duke at Virginia Men's Lacrosse, Episode Two of Three. April 19, 2012.
http://youtu.be/XLJq73KSTcg



The Big Game: Duke at Virginia Men's Lacrosse, Episode Three of Three. April 19, 2012. http://youtu.be/y2ZYB_C4jxE



http://www.ncaa.com/championships/lacrosse-men/d1


U.S. Lacrosse YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/uslacrosse8

2012 ACC Lacrosse Tourney TV schedule for Men & Women, other NCAA Lacrosse matches on TV, Friday thru Sunday, April 20-22, 2012

The Big Game: Duke at Virginia Men's Lacrosse, Episode One. April 19, 2012.
http://youtu.be/fXoo-3OYQ1o

2012 ACC Lacrosse Tourney TV schedule for Men & Women, other NCAA Lacrosse matches on TV, Friday thru Sunday, April 20-22, 2012

The 2012 ACC Womens Lacrosse tourney is in Cary, N.C. this weekend, hosted by Duke, and games will be available online at ESPN3 and on certain RSN affiliates.


Check your area to see if you will get this on TV or have to go online. Here in South Florida, I will watch via Sun Sports, DirecTV Channel 653 to see thr two games on Friday and Saturday:
http://www.theacc.com/championships/12-womens-lacrosse-championship.html



Friday, April 20, 2012 - Quarterfinals


Noon ET – Boston College vs Virginia
- FS South 
- Sun Sports 
- CSN Mid-Atlantic 
- NESN – delay broadcast @ 10:30pm ET


2pm ET – Virginia Tech vs. Maryland
- FS South 
- Sun Sports 
- CSN Mid-Atlantic


Saturday, April 21, 2012 - Semifinals


1pm – UNC vs BC/UVA winner 
- FS South 
- Sun Sports 
- CSN Mid-Atlantic 
- NESN – delay broadcast @ 3pm ET


3pm – Duke vs UMD/VT winner 
- FS South 
- Sun Sports 
- CSN Mid-Atlantic 
- NESN – delay broadcast @ 7pm ET


Monday, April 23, 2012 -Championship Game
ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208  amd at ESPN3.com
7 p.m. Winners of the two Semifinals on Saturday


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http://insidelacrosse.com/news/2012/04/19/acc-tournament-provides-big-stage-tough-competition-ahead-ncaas



Friday, April 20th, 2012  

ACC Mens Tourney in Charlottesville/UVA on ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208  

5 p.m. Duke vs. Maryland 

Last weekend Duke beat UVA at UVA, and Maryland knocked-off Johns Hopkins at Baltimore. 

7:30 p.m. North Carolina vs. Virgina

7 p.m. CBS Sports Network, DirecTV Channel 613 

Colgate at Bucknell

Saturday, April 21st, 2012

BigTenNetwork, DirecTV Channel 610

11 a.m. Air Force at Ohio State 

CBS Sports Network, DirecTV Channel 613 

Noon Johns Hopkins at Navy

CBS Sports Network, DirecTV Channel 613 

2:30 p.m. Women - #7 Notre Dame at #15 Georgetown

Georgetown is only team to defeat North Carolina this year.

http://www.und.com/allaccess/?media=316352

Sheehan Stanwick Burch and Todd Harris will be doing color commentary and play-by-play here and you know how I love Sheehan. She's a keeper!

ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

3 p.m. Georgetown at Syracuse

BigTenNetwork, DirecTV Channel 610

5 p.m. Women - #4 Florida at #1 Northwestern (Tape Delay)

Combining two of my favorite names, Shannon Smith of Northwestern, odds-on favorite to repeat as Tewaarton Award winner, lead the Wildcats against the young and speedy Gators, still reveling in their overtime win at Johns Hopkins last week.

usalacrosse8 video: WD1: Florida Sneaks Past Johns Hopkins in Sudden Death 13-12.  http://youtu.be/HV-G6gOKpIY

ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208 

5:30 p.m. Notre Dame at Villanova

Sunday, April 22, 2012

ACC Mens Championship at Klöckner Stadium in Charlottesville/UVA

ESPNU, DirecTV Channel 208  

3 p.m. Winners of Friday's Semifinals

Head's-up for Women's lacrosse fans in the Baltimore/DC area

Ohio State's Women's Lacrosse team will be playing in Baltimore on Saturday April 28th against Johns Hopkins at 1 p.m. 

Glenelg High School grads Alayna Markwordt and Katie Chase are on the Buckeyes LAX team, as are Cara Facchina and her younger sister, Mary Kate, from Mount de Sales Academy. Katie and Cara also both played for Hero's.

http://www.hopkinssports.com/allaccess/?media=301333

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http://www.youtube.com/user/uslacrosse8

http://espn.go.com/lacrosse/

http://insidelacrosse.com/ilwomen/

http://laxmagazine.com/landing/index

http://www.theacc.com/championships/index.html

2011 NCAA Mens Lacrosse Final Four in Baltimore is a case of multiple story narratives colliding head-on; NU-MD rematch for Women should be awesome!

ESPN video: Lacrosse Final Four breakdown

http://youtu.be/MK-pbz_uiDg

The Memorial Day weekend has long been one of my favorite weekend because it combines the sheer excitement and mystery of the Indy 500 and the tough grit of the NCAA D-1 Mens Lacrosse Final Four, where defense almost always trumps showy offense.

http://www.ncaa.com/sports/lacrosse-men/d1

This year is no exception as the four teams playing at M&T Stadium in Baltimore are a clear-cut case of multiple story narratives colliding:

In the first game at 4 p.m., Denver vs. UVA, the new kid-on-the-block with the proven coach vs. the traditional power eager for redemption, while the second game pits Maryland vs. Duke, a return to glory for a traditional power vs. the new king-of-the LAX hill.

(As some of you may recall me having mentioned previously, my middle niece is a freshman at UVA, Charlottesville being one of my favorite cities. I'm rooting for a UVA-Maryland title match on Monday, which'll help make the crowd a big part of the game.)

On Friday night, courtesy of Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic, DirecTV Channel 642, I was able to catch some of the D-1 Womens Semi-finals up in Stony Brook, Long Island.

http://www.ncaa.com/championships/lacrosse-women/d1

I missed the first Semi of the night between Maryland and Duke, which saw the returning champion Terps defeat the Blue Devils, and caught the beginning of the second half of the North Carolina-Northwestern match.

In the past, I've caught LIVE or via tape all the Northwestern matches that have been telecast on the BigTenNetwork, but this year, I only saw one or two, so I was not as familiar with this group of Kelly Amonte Hiller-led Wildcats as years past, when Katrina Dowd channeled Isiah Thomas from our 1981 NCAA basketball title run, hustling, driving towards the net and either shooting or making crazy amazing passes.

It was a half largely dominated by the Wildcats, whose Shannon Smith scored with 18 seconds left in the match after UNC tied it twice in the last six minutes.

The win sends the Wildcats up against the Terps for a rematch of their classic title game last year in Towson which saw Northwestern's amazing title run end.

That might've been THE best sporting event I saw all year -by far.

Here's some information about watching the matches this weekend via TV or your nearest computer that may prove helpful for those of you reading this far from the sweltering madness of South Florida.

FYI: ESPN3 is ESPN's LIVE streaming channel, so you can watch the two Mens Sem-finals there on Saturday starting at 4 p.m., and the Championship match on Monday afternoon, too without Cable TV.

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Women's Final

Sunday May 29th Division I Women's Lacrosse Final - Maryland (1) vs. Northwestern (2)

to be televised LIVE at 4 p.m. Eastern on Mountain West Sports Network (The Mtn.), Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic (Plus) and joined-in-progress on The BigTenNetwork and streaming at www.NCAA.com

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Mens National Semi-finals

Saturday May 28th 2011 Division I Men's Lacrosse Semifinal #1 - Denver (6) vs. Virginia (7)

to be televised LIVE at 4 p.m Eastern on ESPN2 /ESPN3.com.

Semi-final # 2 - Maryland vs. Duke (5), on the same channels around 6:30 p.m.

Mens title game on Monday May 30th at 3:30 p.m. on the same two channels.

I especially encourage you to take a moment and read the following columns about the growth of this great sport, NOT that you'd know this living in South Florida, where the University of Miami has neither a Mens or Womens D-1 lacrosse team despite having so many students from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, or even a D-1 Field Hockey team, which is why the U-M is such an unappealing school for smart and talented women athletes.

It's simply NOT competitive nationally, let alone, within the ACC.

While the U-M dithers, the University of Michigan announced on Wednesday the elevation of Men's and Women's lacrosse to D-1 status.

The Washington Post

2011 NCAA men’s lacrosse semifinals showcase growth of sport

By Christian Swezey

Published: May 27, 2011

http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/colleges/2011-ncaa-mens-lacrosse-semifinals-showcase-regional-growth-of-sport/2011/05/27/AG62gpCH_story.html

New York Times

Observing a Lacrosse Pioneer, McPhee Style

By George Vecsey

May 26, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/27/sports/mcphee-trains-his-lens-on-tierney-a-lacrosse-pioneer.html

New York Times

Denver Crosses Lacrosse’s Great Divide

By Adam Himmelsbach

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/28/sports/denver-crosses-lacrosses-great-divide.html

Baltimore Sun

Faceoff lacrosse blog - http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/lacrosse/blog/

Q&A with ESPN's Paul Carcaterra

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/lacrosse/blog/2011/05/qa_with_espns_paul_carcaterra_9.html

Richmond Times-Dispatch

Desire is there for U.Va. lacrosse team

By Michael Phillips

May 28, 2011

http://www2.timesdispatch.com/sports/2011/may/28/tdsport01-desire-is-there-for-uva-lacrosse-team-ar-1070117/

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