Inside Lacrosse Podcasts

People call it Black Friday, but this year, IL's Terry Foy and The Postgame's Nick Ossello decided to make it #UltimatePositiveFriday by calling up — without warning, mind you — eight people who are varying degrees of close to them and notable within the lacrosse community and paying them compliments. Warning: it might get a little emotional at times.

Find a podcast that will warm your heart more as you begin the holiday season — you can't.

With fallball in the rearview mirror, Notre Dame coach Kevin Corrigan and middie Wheaton Jackoboice and new Utah coach Drew McMinn and LSM Sammy Cambere join IL's Terry Foy to discuss how their fall unfolded.

With fallball in the rearview mirror, Denver coach Bill Tierney and face-off specialist Alec Stathakis and Ohio State coach Nick Myers and attackman Jack Myers join IL's Terry Foy to discuss how their fall unfolded.

As the Name/Image/Likeness scope continues to evolve, North Carolina star Jamie Ortega talks to Official Lax Girl, a.k.a. Tari Kandemiri, about her new sponsorship deal.

In the wake of Kaplan, Hecker & Fink issuing Phase II of its NCAA Gender Equity Report, IL's Matt Kinnear, Halley Griggs and Alyssa Murray Cometti discuss the findings, particularly around the student-athlete experience at the NCAA Championships.

The National Lacrosse League inked a three-year broadcast rights deal with ESPN that will include 10 games on their linear networks and every game on ESPN+. Commissioner Nick Sakiewicz joins IL's Terry Foy to discuss how the deal came to be and what it means for the sport.

Mid-way through the 2021 Fall All-Access Tour, IL's Terry Foy and Matt Kinnear discuss their visits to about a dozen top men's DI programs. They start by discussing the Ivy League teams — because those are the ones that haven't played in more than a year — and their visits to Penn and Yale and thoughts from Princeton's scrimmage this week. They discuss the other teams they've seen, including Virginia, Johns Hopkins, Loyola, Georgetown, Delaware, Villanova, Drexel, Towson, Richmond, Lehigh and Saint Joe's.

Tari Kandemiri, a.k.a. Official Lax Girl, welcomes Lauren Benner to discuss the recent news story involving her departure from the role as head coach at Valor Christian (Colo.) on the heels of a conversation with school administrators in which she told them that she is gay. An Annapolis, Md., native, they also discuss her time as a player at UVA and Denver, her time with Team STX, her stint as an assistant coach at Louisville and more.

Andy Towers stops by the PLL Happy Hour to talk the Chaos PLL title run and how to manage a PLL team, how to perfect a pump-up speech, who broke the PLL championship trophy, what the offseason holds and much more.

The 2021 Premier Lacrosse League season is in the books and Paul Rabil has announced his playing days are, too. He joins IL's Terry Foy to discuss the process that led to his decision, why he is founding a charitable initiative called Goals for Greatness, what's next for him and the league more broadly.