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Women's Lacrosse League
The Women's Lacrosse League (WLL; sponsor name Maybelline Women's Lacrosse League) is a professional lacrosse sixes league owned and organized by the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL). It is the sole professional lacrosse league for women in the United States. The WLL commenced play in 2025, with four clubs competing. Its matches are broadcast domestically by ESPN. History Prior to Athletes Unlimited Pro Lacrosse, two attempts at establishing a professional league for traditional women's lacrosse were made – the United Women's Lacrosse League (UWLX), and the Women's Professional Lacrosse League (WPLL). The UWLX was established by United Women's Sports in 2016, and played three seasons before quietly disbanding. Under the leadership of former UWLX Commissioner Michele DeJuliis, the WPLL played two seasons in 2018 and 2019, before its 2020 season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, and collapsed as a result. A number of players in the WPLL would ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2025 Women's Lacrosse League Season
The 2025 season of the Women's Lacrosse League (WLL) was the league's inaugural year of play. Four teams competed in the WLL's 2025 tournaments: the Boston Guard, California Palms, Maryland Charm, and New York Charging. The season began with the #WLL Championship Series, 2025 WLL Championship Series in February, which was won by the Guard. Teams Boston Guard * Head coach – Laurie DeLuca * Assistant coach – Tracey Sullivan (C) indicates captain *Source: California Palms * Head coach – Adam Sear * Assistant coach – Ginny Capicchioni (C) indicates captain *Source: Maryland Charm * Head coach – Taylor Cummings, Taylor Cummings Danseglio * Assistant coach – Emily Parros (C) indicates captain *Source: New York Charging * Head coach – Colleen Magarity * Assistant coach – Molly Wolf (C) indicates captain *Source: Tournament 2025 WLL Championship Series The first tournament, the 2025 WLL Championship Series (Naming rights, sponsor na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Just Women's Sports
''Just Women's Sports'' (''JWS'') is an American news website and media company focused on women's sports. It was founded in 2020 by former soccer player Haley Rosen. The company creates content across social, web, and audio platforms, and has produced podcasts by athletes such as Kelley O'Hara, Sam Mewis, Lynn Williams (soccer), Lynn Williams, A'ja Wilson, and Napheesa Collier. History ''Just Women's Sports'' was founded in January 2020 by Haley Rosen (born June 1, 1993), a former soccer player from Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, who played for the Stanford Cardinal women's soccer, Stanford Cardinal in college and briefly played professionally. She aimed to address the disproportionate lack of media coverage of women in sports (said to be about four percent of all sports coverage). The company began by producing content on its website, newsletter, and social media. In May 2020, Adidas supported the company with a grant for female entrepreneurs in sports. Kelley O'H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United States Women's National Lacrosse Team
The United States women's national lacrosse team represents the United States in the World Lacrosse Women's World Championship held every four years. The team was first selected in 1933 after the United States Women's Lacrosse Association was founded in 1931. The team has won nine championships, including the last championship, which was in 2022. Current roster The following 18 players were named to the squad for the 2022 World Lacrosse Women's World Championship. Team records Olympic Games Women's World Championship The team has participated in every Women's World Championship through 2022 and have won a medal in every appearance. References External links * United States Women's Lacrosse Association records at the University of Maryland Libraries See also {{Women's national lacrosse teams Women's lacrosse teams in the United States Lacrosse Lacrosse is a contact team sport played with a lacrosse stick and a lacrosse ball. It is the oldest organized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Get Up (TV Program)
''Get Up'' is an American sports talk morning television program hosted by Mike Greenberg that airs weekdays on ESPN. Michelle Beadle was one of the original hosts with Greenberg and Jalen Rose, but decided to leave the program in September 2018 to devote more time to ESPN's NBA coverage. It premiered on April 2, 2018. The program features news, opinion and analysis from the hosts and guests. It airs live weekdays from 8 am–10 am ET with reruns from 10 am–12 pm ET on ESPN2, and from 12 pm–2 pm ET on ESPNews (when ESPN has other sports programming commitments, ESPN2 will air the live feed in place of ESPN and ESPNEWS will reair the show in place of ESPN2), and also airs on Sirius XM live. Dan Graziano regularly fills in for Greenberg as host. Prior to ''Get Up'', Greenberg co-hosted the ''Mike & Mike'' radio show with Mike Golic but left in November 2017 after an 18-year run together. Golic's contract with ESPN expired at the end of 2020. The show is b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Rabil
Paul Rabil (born December 14, 1985) is an American Business executive, sports executive and retired professional lacrosse player. He is currently the president of the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL), which he co-founded with his brother, league CEO Mike Rabil. Paul played collegiate lacrosse at Johns Hopkins University. He won All-America honors all four years and holds the record for most playoff goals, assists, and points. He won two championships in 2005 and 2007. In 2007, he won the McLaughlin_Award#Award_winners_by_year_(Division_I), McLaughlin Award as the nation's best midfielder, and was inducted into the Johns Hopkins Athletics Hall of Fame in 2022. Paul Rabil played professional lacrosse in Major League Lacrosse (MLL) for eleven years from 2008 to 2018, when he cofounded the PLL. He then played in the PLL for three years, from 2019 to 2021. He won the List_of_Major_League_Lacrosse_awards#Offensive_Player_of_the_Year, MLL Offensive Player of the Year Award triple times, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penske Media Corporation
Penske Media Corporation (PMC ) is an American mass media, publishing, and information services company based in Los Angeles and New York City. It publishes more than 20 digital and print brands, including '' Variety'', ''Rolling Stone'', ''Women's Wear Daily'', ''Deadline Hollywood'', ''Billboard'', ''The Hollywood Reporter'', '' Boy Genius Report'', '' Robb Report'', '' Artforum'', ''ARTNews'', and others. PMC's Chairman and CEO since founding is Jay Penske. In addition to media publications, Penske Media Corporation owns the Life Is Beautiful Music & Art Festival and is a 50 percent stakeholder in South by Southwest. It is also the owner of Dick Clark Productions which includes the award shows Golden Globe Awards, American Music Awards, Streamy Awards, Academy of Country Music Awards, and the Billboard Music Awards. History 2003–2011: Founding and early years of Penske Media Penske Media Corporation was founded by Jay Penske in 2003. It began as an affinity marketin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern University
Northwestern University (NU) is a Private university, private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest University charter, chartered university in Illinois. Chartered by the Illinois General Assembly in 1851, Northwestern was initially affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church but later became non-sectarian. By 1900, the university was the third-largest Higher education in the United States, university in the United States, after University of Michigan, Michigan and Harvard University, Harvard. Northwestern became a founding member of the Big Ten Conference in 1896 and joined the Association of American Universities in 1917. Northwestern is composed of eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools in the fields of Kellogg School of Management, management, Pritzker School of Law, law, Medill School of Journalism, journalism, McCormick School of Engineering, enginee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northwestern Wildcats
The Northwestern Wildcats are the athletic teams that represent Northwestern University, located in Evanston, Illinois. Northwestern is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and one of two private universities in the conference, the other being the University of Southern California. Northwestern has eight men's and eleven women's NCAA Division I sports teams and is marketed as "Chicago's Big Ten Team". The mascot is Willie the Wildcat. History Northwestern is a charter member of the Big Ten Conference and was the only private institution in the conference after the University of Chicago left in 1946 until the University of Southern California joined in 2024. It is also by far the smallest, With approximately 8,000 undergraduate students. The next-smallest, Iowa Hawkeyes, Iowa, is almost three times as large. Currently, Northwestern fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams (8 men's and 11 women's) in addition to numerous club sports. Recent success by the Wildcats includes: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MLive Media Group
MLive Media Group, originally known as Booth Newspapers, or Booth Michigan, is a media group that produces newspapers from the state of Michigan in Cleveland, Ohio. Founded by George Gough Booth with his two brothers, Booth Newspapers was sold to Advance Publications, a Samuel I. Newhouse property, in 1976. MLive Media Group newspaper publications include ''The Ann Arbor News'',''The Bay City Times'', ''The Flint Journal'', ''The Grand Rapids Press'', '' Jackson Citizen Patriot'', ''Kalamazoo Gazette'', ''Muskegon Chronicle'', '' The Saginaw News'', and '' Advance Newspapers''. The company also maintains newsrooms in Lansing and Detroit. All of Advance Publications' Michigan content is published on Mlive.com. History Early history Booth Newspapers was founded by George Gough Booth and his brothers in 1893 and was a media company based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In 1976, Samuel Irving Newhouse Sr. of Advance Publications acquired Booth Newspapers for $305 million, the . T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Premier Lacrosse League Championship Series
The PLL Championship Series is an annual winter lacrosse tournament in the lacrosse sixes format. It is hosted by the Premier Lacrosse League. It features the top four teams in the regular season standings of the previous Premier Lacrosse League season. The inaugural championship series occurred in 2023. Announced in May 2022, the Championship Series was created for a variety of reasons: incentivize a teams regular season finishing position(as of 2023 only the last place team in the standings does not qualify for playoffs in the PLL), provide more playing opportunities for PLL players that do not play in the NLL, aid in the broader push for lacrosse's inclusion in the Olympics, and to create more inventory for the PLL's broadcasting partners. The four qualifying teams were allowed to roster 12 players, ten field players and two goalkeepers. Lacrosse Sixes and Rule Differences The lacrosse sixes format is a version of lacrosse which aims to provide greater access to lacrosse by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Exhibition Game
An exhibition game (also known as a friendly, scrimmage, demonstration, training match, pre-season game, warmup match, or preparation match, depending at least in part on the sport) is a sporting event whose prize money and impact on the player's or the team's rankings is either zero or otherwise greatly reduced. Exhibition games often serve as "warm-up matches", particularly in many team sports where these games help coaches and managers select and condition players, before the competitive matches of a league season or tournament. If the players usually play in different teams in other leagues, exhibition games offer an opportunity for the players to learn to work with each other. The games can be held between separate teams or between parts of the same team. An exhibition game may also be used to settle a challenge, to provide professional entertainment, to promote the sport, to commemorate an anniversary or a famous player, or to raise money for charities. Several sports le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reuters
Reuters ( ) is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters. It employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists in about 200 locations worldwide writing in 16 languages. Reuters is one of the largest news agencies in the world. The agency was established in London in 1851 by Paul Reuter. The Thomson Corporation of Canada acquired the agency in a 2008 corporate merger, resulting in the formation of the Thomson Reuters Corporation. In December 2024, Reuters was ranked as the 27th most visited news site in the world, with over 105 million monthly readers. History 19th century Paul Julius Reuter worked at a book-publishing firm in Berlin and was involved in distributing radical pamphlets at the beginning of the Revolutions of 1848. These publications brought much attention to Reuter, who in 1850 developed a prototype news service in Aachen using homing pigeons and electric telegraphy from 1851 on, in order to transmit messages between Brussels and Aachen, in what today is Aa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
