Philadelphia Waterdogs attackman CJ Kirst has emerged as a clear front runner for PLL MVP. He’s scoring at a ridiculous pace. He has 20 goals, evenly split 10 apiece assisted and unassisted. He’s averaging 5.5 points per game, he has rocketed up the league leaderboards in scoring categories and has the Waterdogs at third overall in the standings, trailing only due to score differential. What makes all this more impressive is that Kirst was late arriving to the PLL season. Bec

In some major news yesterday, the PLL announced a $100 million Series E financing round. Ares and Joe Tsai were the headliners, but another investor included actor, writer, and producer Glen Powell. Powell has been in attendance at PLL games in the past, and played lacrosse in high school. He's been on record before saying he would have interest in a lacrosse movie as sort of an untapped space in storytelling, and part of his coming on board sees him join the PLL as a creativ

NEW YORK – June 30, 2026 – The Premier Lacrosse League (PLL) today announced the closing of a $100 million Series E financing round led by Ares and Joe Tsai, representing the largest capital raise in the history of professional lacrosse.The round also includes a subsequent minority equity investment from ESPN, along with investments from actor, writer and producer Glen Powell, Co-chairman of Wrexham A.F.C, actor and producer Rob Mac (formerly McElhenney), country music singer

The league belongs to the kids Roster turnover has been a popular topic around the PLL lately. Turnover that is happening, at least in part, due to the fact that the young players in the league are so good. In a given game day, a PLL team has 21 players (19 active, two protected) on their roster. This past weekend, Philadelphia’s roster used 12 spots on players who finished college in 2024, 2025, or 2026. That includes four rookies in their midfield in Kyle Lewis, Josh Yago,

Former UVA lacrosse coach Lars Tiffany has taken legal action against the University of Virginia, filing a declaratory judgment action against the university. The action states that a contract extension offer letter signed by Tiffany in March was in fact valid, and as a result, the university owes him compensation totaling over $1.4 million after his termination last May. Tiffany’s tenure as head coach at UVA ended last May after ten years, a time in which he won two national

The PLL and the Patriot League have a lot in common During the college season, I believe that anyone who tells you they know what’s going to happen in the Patriot League is lying to you. It’s an unpredictable conference with results every week that seem completely out of touch logically with what had happened the week before. Results against common opponents mean nothing, trying to look at stats to predict an outcome is a fool’s errand. It’s best to just sit back and enjoy th

The Whips are ahead of the curve Maryland 2-0 on their homecoming weekend. It’s the second time they’ve pulled that off since it became a thing in 2024. The rest of the league combined has done in twice. Maryland’s friday night execution against Boston was as good as I’ve ever seen in the PLL. I know we’re doing overreactions, but that’s just a fact. The ball was humming, players were moving. Coach Stagnitta pointed out postgame that even when they made a mistake, they made u

It’s been, as expected, a wide open year in men’s college lacrosse. The preseason number one team in the media poll missed the NCAA tournament. Teams were up and down the polls all year, new number ones being crowned all the time. Duke, who some thought shouldn’t even have made the NCAA tournament, made a run to the Final Four. An extension of the wide open landscape for teams, the race for the highest honor in the sport is wide open as well. The Tewaaraton Award, lacrosse’s

PLL Pro Day will be held around Baltimore weekend at the end of this month. It’s an opportunity for undrafted and player pool players to be on the field against other pro level talent and earn their way onto a roster. In compiling this list, I stuck entirely to names that are available and not on a PLL 25 man roster. I did not consider their current day job (if they’re working on), if they’re even interested in being pros, or things like that which might impact availability

Philly doesn’t need CJ Kirst anyway The Waterdogs overcame a fairly slow start to win 16-14 over Maryland in their opener. The put up nine goals in the second quarter. They hit a trio of two pointers in the third. Maryland was able to battle back a bit in the fourth quarter, but the middle section of this game showed fans just what Philly can be capable of. And therein lies the rub. Philly has some personnel issues to sort through each week. They have to play two of Michael S

The 2026 PLL season kicks off on Friday night in Utah. As happens every year, the time period leading up to the opener, including training camp and the first game week, has a flurry of roster moves being made. It can be a lot for fans to digest. Names are coming and going, sometimes names are missing that fans expected to see. The basic roster structure in the PLL is that each team has a 25 man active roster. Each week 19 players are selected from that 25 for the gameday rost

The NLL playoffs are underway, and have already delivered unforgettable moments. Halifax completed a comeback for the ages, erasing a seven goal deficit while holding Vancouver scoreless for the second half, sending the one seed home early. It was one of the most remarkable comebacks in pro lacrosse playoff history. San Diego scored a OT game winner that actually might not have been a game winner. Commissioner Brett Frood made a statement after the game that, after the leag

A-10 The A-10 tournament will be hosted by Richmond, and the top four teams in the conference qualify. Richmond and High Point currently have 5-0 records and are locked into the top two seeds. St Bonaventure and Hobart are winless in conference and can’t qualify. UMass has completed A-10 play and has a 3-3 record. Relevant games this weekend are Richmond vs High Point and St Joe’s vs Delaware. A St Joe’s win is maximum chaos. Richmond and Delaware win: Seed order is Richmond

With training camp underway this week in Philadelphia for all eight clubs, the Premier Lacrosse League has added another talent and evaluation focused day to the league calendar. The league will hold its first PLL Pro Day in late May, leading into PLL Baltimore homecoming weekend. PLL Pro Day will be an invite only event. Undrafted college players, along with current members of the PLL player pool, will be invited to participate in drills, scrimmages, and game situations. The

Sometimes, in the heat of the excitement around a trade being completed, we can forget that those future picks in a deal actually turn into players. And for GMs who did an exceptional job of tracking those picks over time, they're a valuable roster building asset. Several trades from the past two seasons, dating as far back as the Pat Kavanagh deal from November 2024, were finally completed last night. Meaning all the picks that changed hands now have a player attached to th

Fan complaints about college lacrosse games all sharing a noon start time have been heard loud and clear, and answered. Today, the NCAA has announced a seismic shift in the rules around broadcast times for lacrosse games that should, just like whenever any lacrosse rules are changed, completely solve the targeted problem with no collateral damage to the sport whatsoever. The new rule dictates no men’s D1 college lacrosse games can share a start time. Ever. To comply, games w

The PLL Draft is set. On April 14th, live from Bristol, the names of the next 32 draftees will be ready on ESPN+. While mock drafts and big boards tend to be content for all seasons, there are some rising stars in the college game playing their way into the draft conversation who may have slid down the list. First round picks tend to be anointed almost a year ahead of time, and it can be easy to overlook players who may play themselves into a draft spot through on field perfo

The team with the best goalie wins. The championship results in each year of the Championship Series so far: 2023, Chrome over Atlas. Chrome goalie Sean Sconone led the event in save percentage among regular starters, Atlas goalie Jack Concannon was second. 2024, Boston over Philadelphia. Philadelphia goalie Matt DeLuca led the event in save percentage, Boston goalie Colin Kirst was second. 2025, Boston over Utah. Boston goalie Colin Kirst led the event in save percentage, U

The initial 2026 Tewaaraton Watch list was released during Tuesday night’s game between Johns Hopkins and Towson on ESPNU. Considered to be the Heisman of lacrosse, the Tewaaraton is given annually to the nation’s most outstanding college lacrosse player in both the men’s and women’s game. Historically, the men’s award skews heavily towards attackmen. Of the initial list of 50 players, 14 are attackmen. The only two sophomores on the list, Hunter Aquino (listed at midfield th

The Bandits need to come back to Earth but in a different way Look, nothing lasts forever. What goes up must come down. All that good stuff. But I thought the Bandits had come back to Earth after their three year run LAST week. THIS week, the losing streak stretched to four in a row. They lost on their home floor in front of a sold out crowd to a Wings team that came in with a 1-6 record. The Bandits haven’t lost four in a row since 2018 (that might sound recently but folks i