Inside Lacrosse is a

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media entity and

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affiliate. It includes many parts including a news website, an 11 times annual

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, online video streaming,

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s and an ESPN television show. The company is currently headquartered in

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Properties

Inside Lacrosse Magazine

Currently published 11 times a year, the magazine is in an oversized glossy format, similar to

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and

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. The page count averages anywhere from 136–172 pages depending on the time of year and main topics of interest are the

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and high school lacrosse. Also receiving coverage is

Major League Lacrosse Major League Lacrosse (MLL) was a men's field lacrosse league in the United States. The league's inaugural season was in 2001. Teams played anywhere from ten to 16 games in a summertime regular season. This was followed by a four-team playoff f ...

, the

National Lacrosse League The National Lacrosse League (NLL) is a men's professional box lacrosse league in North America. The league is headquartered in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The NLL currently has fifteen teams: ten in the United Stat ...

, and

women's lacrosse Women's lacrosse (or girls' lacrosse), sometimes shortened to lax, is a sport with twelve players on the field at a time (including the goalkeeper). Originally played by indigenous peoples of the Americas, the modern women's game was introduce ...

. Of the 11 issues, the most popular is the recruiting issue, followed by the college season preview issues.

Inside Lacrosse TV

Inside Lacrosse TV is the name of both Inside Lacrosse's video streaming website and their ESPN television show. The television show is a one-hour special that usually occurs twice annually as season "preview" and "summary" shows before and after the college season.

The Lacrosse Forums

, The Lacrosse Forums (TLF) has over 50,000 registered users making it the largest online lacrosse forums.

IL Indoor

IL Indoor is a

news

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. Formerly known as "NLL Insider", it was started in 2005 as a spinoff to Inside Lacrosse so that Inside Lacrosse could focus on

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while IL Indoor would focus on

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. It features its own forums similar to The Lacrosse Forums. Some of the writers are former NLL players including

Teddy Jenner Teddy Jenner (born July 23, 1979 in Victoria, British Columbia) was a box lacrosse player for the Victoria Shamrocks in the Western Lacrosse Association as well as a number of teams in the National Lacrosse League The National Lacrosse League ...

, Brian Shanahan,

Marty O'Neill Marty O'Neill (born June 6, 1964, in Winnipeg, Manitoba) is a former lacrosse player and former General Manager of the Minnesota Swarm (2004-2011) and Philadelphia Wings (2001-2004) of the National Lacrosse League (NLL). O'Neill, a goaltender, joi ...

, and Tom Ryan.

IL Indoor Forums

IL Indoor also has its own distinct message board forum
IL Indoor Forums
which focuses primarily on

news and discussions. This message board began in 2000 and was originally known as the National Lacrosse League Message Board until Inside Lacrosse purchased and then renamed it. It is the premier website for fan-based NLL journalism and is the location for serious NLL fans, staffers, and players to share news, rumors, opinions, and ideas for improving both the sport of box lacrosse and the NLL. It also serves as a living repository of NLL history and as a resource for new NLL fans to learn about the league, its rules, and its history by searching past posts or interacting with long-time fans.

History

The company was founded in 1996 by Robert Carpenter, a Duke lacrosse and Vestal, NY High School graduate. Knowing that fans cannot be truly invested in a sport if they don't have access to the news and the personalities surrounding it, Inside Lacrosse was born. A ham and egg operation run out of Carpenter's spare bedroom in Towson, Maryland was all about printing and sending weekly score bulletins to lacrosse junkies nationally, in first-class envelopes so nothing was out of date. The maiden issue was a 16-page black-and-white newspaper consisting mostly of box scores and stats. Among the content was the news of Michigan State and New Hampshire dropping their men's varsity programs and Syracuse's epic 22–21 win over Virginia.

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acquired the magazine in 2007

Awards and honors

*1998 –

USILA The United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association is an association of member institutions and organizations with college lacrosse programs at all levels of competition, including the three NCAA divisions and non-NCAA schools, at both the vars ...

Media Award *2003 – IWLCA Media Award *2003 – IWLCA Service Award *2005 – USILA Media Award *2008 �
FOLIO: Magazine Eddie Award - Consumer, Sports, Full Issue

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