FUEL MOTIVATION INSPIRATION GROWTH IMPACT


STANDING UP


Lyle Thompson drove 30 hours to bring the medicine game to


pipeline protests BY MATT WHITE


The sign is handwritten, with letters that start in green ink and, where a pen appears to run out, switch to black. “Reserved for the Creator’s Game.” On a post stuck in frozen ground, the sign marked an open patch of ground in the heart of Oceti Sakowin, the protest camp on the high plains of North Dakota near the Standing Rock Sioux reservation. Lyle Thompson, the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer and two- time Tewaaraton Award winner, had played on hundreds of pristine lacrosse fi elds. This wasn’t one of them. The long, yellowed prairie


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