Ryan Powell Mentioned in The Wall Street Journal
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 at 7:57 amLacrosse Muscles Its Way West
A Sport Incubated by Eastern Prep Schools Quietly Picks Up Converts; Big Gains in California
By JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG and KELLY EVANS
This weekend in Foxboro, Mass., more than 100,000 spectators are expected to pour into Gillette Stadium to see four schools — Duke, Virginia, Cornell and Syracuse — square off for the national championship of a sport that, if the numbers are correct, you’ll be hearing a lot more about. That sport is lacrosse.
Until recently, lacrosse — America’s other stick and ball sport — was rarely on TV and only its championship games generated much in the way of media coverage. It was mostly played on the East Coast, and it was often viewed as a game for private-school kids. Some of the game’s most electrifying athletes — Gary and Paul Gait; Casey, Ryan and Michael Powell — were little known outside core followers. The sole exception may be Jim Brown, the former Cleveland Browns running back who played lacrosse at Syracuse University.
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