NLL Championship on ESPN2

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http://www.nll.com/article_2346.shtml

For those of you who are to lazy to go when it’s here… :wink:

ESPN2 TO AIR CHAMPIONSHIP GAME LIVE

April 13, 2006

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ESPN2 will air the NLL Championship Game live on Saturday, May 13 at 6PM Eastern.The National Lacrosse League and ESPN2 have announced the network will televise the league’s 2006 RBK NLL Championship Game presented by Edge Active live on Saturday, May 13 at 6PM Eastern/3PM Pacific.

The 2006 regular season, the league’s 20th season of professional indoor lacrosse, concludes on April 15th. Eight of the league’s 11 teams will advance to the playoffs, which are all single-game elimination. The playoffs will begin with the four Division Semifinal games on the weekend of April 21-23. The winners of those games will advance to the Division Championships on the weekend of April 28-30. The winners of the Division Championship games advance to the NLL Championship Game on May 13, as the East champion faces the West champion for the title.

The 2005 Championship Game saw the Toronto Rock defeat the Arizona Sting 19-13 in front of a sold-out crowd of 19,432 at Air Canada Centre in Toronto.

“We’re pleased to have ESPN2 televise our championship game to a live national audience”, said NLL Commissioner Jim Jennings. “ESPN2 will allow us to reach our current US fan base as well as mainstream sports fans who are finding the excitement of professional indoor lacrosse.”

“The National Lacrosse League Championship on ESPN2 will showcase the excitement of this sport on its grandest stage,” said Rosalyn Durant, ESPN Senior Director of Programming and Acquisitions. “We are thrilled to televise an elite event that will crown the next NLL Champion.”

Championship game broadcast plans for viewers in Canada will be announced at a later date.

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thad be schweet to watch the bandits on TV

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It’s better to watch them live. :wink: But yes, it’s a huge thign that ESPN is willing to air this. Maybe next season they will air regular games or something.

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awesome… can’t wait.

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so lets say it isnt here in buffalo…who is gonna be the person to offer up their newly purchased, barely broken in, ready to be christened by multiple beer drinkers, house?

anyone? anyone? bueller?

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hmm mabye they will get in the year 2k6 and show it in hidef too.

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it will be at home. I thought that was guaranteed?

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It is.

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we still have to get to the championship

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you talk like it isn’t going to happen.

Go not wear your jersey to work on friday again and see what happens to you.

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:lol: