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Rapper Jay Z calls lacrosse ‘soft’ A feud between rappers Jay Z and Drake crossed into the lacrosse world in late April, when Jay Z took a shot at his counterpart in a DJ Khaled single, “They Don’t Love You No More,” saying Drake was “as soft as a lacrosse team.”
Drake, a Canadian, apparently has interest in the
sport. Major League Lacrosse responded quickly with a statement, challenging Jay Z to come out to a game. “Lacrosse is often called the fastest sport on two feet. Players are on the fi eld dodging and shooting balls at over 100 miles per hour,” the MLL said. “With that said, we don’t think Jay-Z knows what he’s talking about when he calls lacrosse ‘soft.’ … Mr. Carter would not last one minute on a lacrosse fi eld during a match, and he is more than welcome to come to any of our games and try.”
UNC’S ‘SPACE JAM’ “It was great and devastating all at
once,” Stone said of the Winter Olympics, where her U.S. women’s hockey team lost to Canada in the gold medal game.
school (Taft School in Watertown, Conn.) my parents worked at and they had it, so I started playing in ninth grade.
What are your thoughts on recruiting the multiple-sport athletes?
I’m a big believer in multi-sport athletes for so many reasons. One, particularly for women, there’s so much to gain from giving kids the opportunity to play multiple sports and be coached by different people. It gives you different perspectives and different skills and different anticipation.
I tell players, no one is ever going to
make a million dollars playing ice hockey and lacrosse, so you should play what you like to play as long as you can. If someone can maintain their academics and play two sports in college, I think that’s awesome.
Do you ever attend any Harvard games or watch lacrosse on TV? I try to watch when I can.
Unfortunately, spring catches up on you quickly. But I try to catch a Harvard game when I’m in town. I love it. I watch it on TV. I watch the national championships. It’s a great game. I miss it.
— Phil Shore A Publication of US Lacrosse June 2014 >> LACROSSE MAGAZINE 23
With rumors of a “Space Jam 2” being in production, several teams at North Carolina were featured in a music video set to the original movie’s theme song, including the Tar Heels men’s and women’s teams. The video was fi rst shown at the second-annual Rammys, a North Carolina awards event that honors the school’s 28 teams, players and staff. The UNC women were named the school’s team of the year and best championship performance went to Sammy Jo Tracy and Brittney Coppa, for the game-winning goal and assist in the 2013 NCAA championship game victory.
Star-studded blood rivalry
The 111th meeting of in-state rivals Johns Hopkins and Maryland featured some celebrity spectators, including former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, a Johns Hopkins alum, and New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a friend of Blue Jays coach Dave Pietramala. Belichick watched the game from the Jays’ sideline at Homewood Field with his son Stephen (who played lacrosse at Rutgers) and they also sat in on the post-game press conference after the Jays’ 11-6 homecoming win over the Terps. It would have been funny if Belichick turned the tables and asked Pietramala about injuries, but Belichick didn’t ask any questions. Instead, he congratulated players as they left they room after the presser was over, and told them to get ready for “the Mount.” Johns Hopkins played Mount St. Mary’s two days later and won 17-2.
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BALL GAME Northwestern coach Kelly Amonte Hiller led the traditional seventh-inning stretch at a Cubs-Arizona Diamondbacks game ahead of an April 26 tilt with USC at the historic, 100-year-old Wrigley Field in Chicago. It was the fi rst collegiate lacrosse game at the venue. Northwestern won 12-7. Fans took seats along the fi rst-base side as the playing fi eld as oriented east to west, with the east endline stretching from the Cubs’ dugout to the bullpen. The west endline ran the length of the right fi eld wall. “Walking out here, we didn’t really want to leave,” Amonte Hiller told the Daily Northwestern. The announced attendance was 5,145.
‘Idol’ singer lured by lacrosse Alex Preston — the 20-year-old Mont Vernon, N.H., native and a top-fi ve contestant on “American Idol” — may woo his fans with a guitar, but his fi rst set of fans were on the lacrosse fi eld. Preston’s mom, Alice Philbrick, considers him an All-American kid. He started learning how to play the violin in kindergarten. But growing up, his eyes were set on lacrosse. He was No. 60 for his Souhegan High squad and No. 18 for his Amherst Lacrosse Club.
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