In March, having some time on my hands, my daughter asked me to help her coach her high school womens lacrosse team. I said yes, having done quite a lot of spectating at womens lacrosse games, but no actual coaching. The season, behind the bench as it were, was a great experience and a lot of fun - the high school athletes at Wheaton HS had a great attitude - win or lose. We weren't that good - every win was a struggle but we got a couple of them which made the season.
What I learned during the lacrosse season is I can't coach and blog - my brain isn't wired to switch from thinking about defensive matchups and offensive techniques to then write a sailing blog. It wasn't happening when I sat down to the computer.
And that's my excuse.
Like daughter, like father.....
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According to Wikipedia (which is never wrong) that picture is of Lacrosse at the 1908 Olympics.
Is there a real difference between lacrosse and field hockey? I thought they were both basically football with sticks.
As much as I dislike Tillerman's disdain for American sports, the photo on his lacrosse post was, in fact, a picture of a lacrosse game. The sticks these days have much smaller faces, except for the goalie's. Love the game though, and Loyola's win on Monday was superb!
American sports?
Field hockey was invented in ancient Greece and the modern game grew from English public schools in the early 19th century. (In real English, "public school" means "posh private school.") Although in my day, at grammar schools (grammar school is real English for public high school) field hockey was mainly a sport for girls. As was netball. (Netball is real English for basketball.)
Lacrosse was named by a Frenchman who saw the natives playing it in Canada. Interestingly enough he named it after the French word for hockey. The first organized lacrosse club was in Canada too.
I don't have a "disdain" for American sports. I enjoy watching baseball, monster truck events and dog surfing.
There's only one truly American major sport as far as I'm concerned, and Tillerman doesn't like it.
Baseball is a sport that way overpays men to stand and sit for the vast majority of any given game.
Sport preferences are clearly geographical - women's beach volley ball never really caught on in Birmingham (UK)
My sincere apologies Tillerman. Baydog is right. On closer look at the pic on Wikipedia, at higher resolution, those are lacrosse sticks. (They are playing a ground ball, which at low res makes the game look like field hockey.) I've scrubbed my complaint from the post.
One of the advantages of the Internet age is the online streaming of all Olympic sports and I find field hockey at the Olympic level fascinating to watch. (My most favorite online Olympic competition of the last summer Olympics was the long distance walking race - the camera has more time to dwell on the pain as the race goes on.)
That is very gracious of you Earwigoagin. Most of my blogging friends never feel the need to scrub their unfounded complaints about me from their posts.
Baydog. I'm confused. I don't really understand American football (as you well know) but, according to Wikipedia, in the NFL each team can have up to 46 players "dressed for the game" but only 11 on the field at any time. Doesn't that mean that the majority of the players in football are being paid to stand or sit at any given time?
There is actually more time spent in replays than in play in an average NFL game.
I knew there must be some logical reason why "pointy" never appealed to me. There doe seem to be a lot of time when not very much is happening.
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