Frank Deford Praises Lacrosse on NPR Radio

[cgarrigues]

In his weekly piece on NPR's Morning Edition, Frank Deford spent five minutes praising lacrosse. It was a very nice thing to wake up to. The podcast version should be available in a few hours.

[Zeuslax]

One of my coworkers was telling me about that this morning and I was looking for it. Glad to hear that someone else is aware of this too.

[Sonny]

Commentator Frank Deford talks about the oldest sport in North America: Lacrosse. He says the sport is growing rapidly in popularity, and shedding its elitist image.

LINK:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/stor ... Id=5363527

[Zeuslax]

Nice little snid bit..........Unfortunately, NPR doesn't exactly cross ethnic or finacial barriers either. Even with me listening every day.

[SLUDoubleDeuce]

It's difficult for a sport to find a larger place in the crowded American sports calendar. Despite all the money thrown at soccer, it remains on the second tier. But while lacrosse has come under a dark cloud because of the scandal involving the Duke men's team, the sport itself -- the oldest game in North America -- is the new hot game.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/writers/frank_deford/04/26/lacrosse/

I haven't had a chance to listen to the podcast yet, but this just came across my news alert from Google. Nice column.

[Texas Logger]

This is good, but it seems also to be another opportunistic jab at soccer by Deford. He absolutely hates soccer and I don't know why.