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Former Maryland coach Dave Cottle returned to the head coaching game with MLL's Chesapeake Bayhawks.
A record 7,500-plus people visited Philadelphia for the sport's largest annual education-based event.
Cornell senior attackman Rob Pannell went No. 1 overall to the Long Island Lizards in the 2012 MLL Draft.
Another milestone for international lacrosse: the first sanctioned competition in Africa.
Lacrosse season arrived in Orlando with Team USA victories over Denver and Northwestern.
The explosion of lacrosse in Colorado got another shot in the arm with a Division I program in Boulder.
New York Giants linebacker Mark Herzlich, a cancer survivor, once had a scholarship offer to play lacrosse at Johns Hopkins.
National media and former Virginia men's lacrosse teammates converged in Charlottesville, Va., for the Huguely trial.
Growth in the Southeast and a $5 million dollar gift spurred Furman to bring the first NCAA Division I lacrosse teams to South Carolina.
Boston University announced it will elevate its club men's lacrosse team to varsity beginning in 2013-14.
