Lacrosse

12/7/2023 |  White House Supports Indigenous Lacrosse Team for 2028 Olympics (SportsTravel) A push to allow the Haudenosaunee Nationals to compete as its own team in lacrosse at the 2028 Olympic Summer Games in Los Angeles received a major endorsement when President Joe Biden announced Wednesday at the White House Tribal Nations Summit a push to allow the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to play under its own flag when the sport returns to the Olympics.

12/6/2023 |  President Joe Biden and the White House support Indigenous lacrosse team for the 2028 Olympics (Associated Press (AP)) President Joe Biden is pushing to allow the Indigenous nation that invented lacrosse to play under its own flag when the sport returns to the Olympics in 2028.
Biden’s position, being announced Wednesday at the White House Tribal Nations Summit, is a request for the International Olympic Committee to allow the Haudenosaunee Nationals to compete as its own team at the Los Angeles Games.

12/6/2023 |  Biden backs Native American athletes' quest to field lacrosse team at 2028 Olympics (USA TODAY) When lacrosse makes its return to the Olympic program at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, a team of Native American athletes representing the sport's birthplace, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, hope to be competing under their own flag.

11/14/2023 |  Premier Lacrosse League Announces Home Cities For All Teams (Front Office Sports)

• While its signature traveling model will continue in 2024, the league is laying the foundation to have its franchises settle down eventually.
• The PLL assigned home cities based on fan voting, broadcast viewership, historical ticketing performance, public census data, and venues.

11/14/2023 |  PLL Announces City-Based Model for 2024 (SportsTravel) The Premier Lacrosse League will switch to a city-based format, announcing eight teams that will be attached to host cities for the league.
Since its inception, the league has featured a touring model where teams all play in one location per week. But after evaluating fan voting, broadcast viewership, historical ticketing performance, public census data and venues, the league opted to attach teams to cities starting in 2024. The cities that will field teams will be:

• Boston Cannons
• New York Atlas
• Philadelphia Waterdogs
• Maryland Whipsnakes
• Carolina Chaos
• Denver Outlaws (formerly Chrome Lacrosse Club)
• Utah Archers
• California Redwoods