Virginia Lacrosse

When the NCAA's controversial decision to grant 33 players from Duke's 2006 men's lacrosse team an extra year of eligibility was announced in June, Virginia men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia was its most vocal opponent, calling it "the most ham-handed thing I've been around in a long time" in an article published by the Raleigh News & Observer. Two months later, Peter Lamade reported to fall practice in Charlottesville.

"Funny how that worked out, huh?" Starsia said Wednesday. Click to read more

UVA's Recruiting Class for 2008-2009

Starsia Announces UVa's 2008-2009 Recruiting Class

CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - Virginia men's lacrosse coach Dom Starsia announces the signing of 10 student-athletes to national letters of intent to play lacrosse at UVa beginning with the 2008-09 academic year.

"It gives me great pleasure to announce that 10 talented student-athletes have returned national letters of intent and will matriculate at the University of Virginia in the fall of 2008," said Starsia. Click here to read more!

Thank You To Our Troops

My Hero

Bad Backs Clearinghouse

Area Lacrosse Leagues need a central place to find talent for tournaments, leagues and other lacrosse venues. Over the past two years, Bad Backs Lax has accumulated some great talent and participated in the TripleEdge Lacrosse League in Northern Virginia, Fredericksburg Fieldhouse in Southern Virginia, and the Laxtoberfest in Annapolis, Md. Our primary draw has been from the 30 and older crowd who love the game and may, or may not have lost a step since college.

With that in mind, I'd like to propose that we help grow the sport of lacrosse by keeping everyone updated on the latest tournaments and maintaining a database (clearinghouse) of potential players to draw from for local or national tournaments. I will try to reach out to other teams and leagues to grow the database and allow for a broad mix of 30 and older players. We will need the basic information like age, position, contact info., etc.

The next tournament is scheduled for November 24th and 25th. Please click on the link for details: Trojan Lacrosse-

If you are interested in being included for future tournaments, please sign-up for the Feedblitz email subscription at the top right hand side of this page.

Unfair Advantage

It became very clear that the team that won the crown for the Fredericksburg Fieldhouse Master's Tournament had an unfair advantage over those committed Bad Backs Players Bobby Hallett and Chris Adams. If you look closely at the link that I have provided, LINK it became very clear to me that the winning Mr. Boh team used their "Lower Extremity Invisibilization Machine" or LEIN, to render one of their players invisible from the neck down. How were my two clients supposed to compete with that level of sophistication. Now I may just be a frozen caveman lawyer, and your new wave lacrosse technologies may be new to me, but one thing I am certain, and that is if my clients were defeated by outer space technologies that have not been invented yet, they are entitled to nothing less than free beer and hot dogs for the rest of their life.

Signed,
Key Rock
Frozen Cave Man Lawyer

Fredericksburg Field House Tourney This Weekend!

Bad Backs/Geezers Guys.

I still need four or five guys to fill out my four teams for the Saturday tourney. I know a couple are already playing for the Sticks of October, but we could use a few more. Games 2 to 7 with libations afterward. $25. Please let me know you can come.


John Wack
Fredericksburg Field House
admin@fredfieldhouse.com
johnwack@aol.com
540 361 4717

Nothing to do with Lacrosse!

Some days I like to post clips from my favorite videos. This is a great one.

Great Action Shots From The Hero's Laxtoberfest!

Courtesy of Martha Wallace. Thank you Martha.

Reminder- In Need Of A Few Good Men

Reminder- One of our Bad Back's teammates is in need of 2 more players! Anyone who is interested in playing in a tournament this Saturday at the Fredericksburg Fieldhouse, please contact Chris Adams at cjadams68@cox.net.

Click here for details.

Lacrosse, Legacy, Teamwork and Beer

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Enjoy!

Photoshows Immortalize Bad Backs Sports Moments

Just because I have this gift of granting everlasting life, doesn't make me special. I didn't always have these powers. In fact, before I got my new camera I was just like anyone else. I always try to use my powers for good and not for evil.

Laxtoberfest Results Coming Soon!

Coping with Lacrosse Stress

For those of you who might be getting a little nervous about the upcoming Hero's Lacrosse Tournament, don't be, we are all out there to have fun and it promises to be a great time. Remember, it is just a game. The weather will be fantastic and our uniforms look marvelous! In the words of Stuart Smiley from Saturday Night Live, "your good enough, your smart enough and dogonit, people like you."

For those of you who aren't nervous, it is time to start thinking about the game and how much this means to our team. Anything less than a full sweep is unacceptable and your lack of mental preparation, visualization and core focus to the Bad Backs team disgusts me! I haven't slept in 6 days. I lay on the basement concrete floor to toughen myself up to prepare for this epic battle. I've listened to the Rocky I sound track 1700 times. My hands are bleeding from punching a frozen cow. I've personally contacted Ivan Drago to see if he used razor setting 5 or 6 to get his hair to stand up like that. I shoved a lacrosse ball in my mouth and stuck my head out the window while driving 80 mph in my car to increase my oxygen intake to better prepare my lungs for this game. I've purchased a jugs machine and set it for 125 mph and had my son feed me passes on the crease. You need to get your head in the game and if by chance they score one goal on us, the defense will not be allowed to go to Snyders. If the offense doesn't score at least 45 goals in each game, you guessed it, no cold frosties for you. Mr. Goalie, don't think you are in the clear. It is not enough to stop every shot, you have to score 5 unassisted goals before you come within 500 feet of that nice cold Natural light. And oh yes, Coach Schoeb, let us not forget the time you failed to prepare for that baseball game and wore your Chuck Taylor sneakers. You repulsed me with the way you tried to take a lead off of first base, and as the pitcher made his move back to first the whole world stopped, switching into slow motion and you looked like the Road Runner with your spinning Chuck Taylor feet burning rubber as you valiantly tried to make it back to first. I will personally rip your lips off if you even think about show up without brand new Under Armor molded cleats that have been signed by Connor Gil himself.

Seriously folks, have a blast, have fun and it promises to be a great time.

Lax Tournament at the Fredericksburg Fieldhouse

Please comment below if you can make it!

Adult Indoor Tournament
Fredericksburg Fieldhouse will be running a three level adult indoor tournament on Saturday October 20th from noon to 7 PM. They are accepting four teams each at the Open, Masters(>30) and Grandmasters (>40) levels. Each team will play three games against the other teams at their level. 7 V 7 format with 6' goals and modified outdoor rules. 11 player rosters suggested. Games will be 40 minutes running clock with no halftime. $25 per player. Register online. The first player from each team registering should select "New Team". Subsequent players registering should select "With a Team" and select the team for which they play.

www.fredfieldhouse.com

If we get a good turnout, we may have to split into a couple teams.

Balance

A man came home from work late, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year old son waiting for him at the door.

SON: "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"

DAD: "Yeah sure, what is it?"
SON: "Daddy, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD: "That's none of your business. Why do you ask such a thing?"
SON: "I just want to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?"
DAD: "If you must know, I make $100 an hour."
SON: "Oh! (with his head down).
SON: "Daddy, may I please borrow $50?" The father was furious.
DAD: "If the only reason you asked that is so you can borrow some money to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you are being so selfish. I work hard everyday for such this childish behavior." The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even angrier about the little boy's questions. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money? After about an hour or so, the man had calmed down, and started to think: Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $50 and he really didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the door of the little boy's room and opened the door.

DAD: "Are you asleep, son?"
SON: "No daddy, I'm awake".
DAD: "I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier. It's been a long day and I took out my aggravation on you. Here's the $50 you asked for." The little boy sat straight up, smiling.

SON: "Oh, thank you daddy! " Then, reaching under his pillow he pulled out some crumpled up bills. The man saw that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, and then looked up at his father.

DAD: "Why do you want more money if you already have some?"
SON: "Because I didn't have enough, but now I do. Daddy, I have $100 now. Can I buy an hour of your time? Please come home early tomorrow. I would like to have dinner with you." The father was crushed. He put his arms around his little son, and he begged for his forgiveness. It's just a short reminder to all of you working so hard in life. We should not let time slip through our fingers without having spent some time with those who really matter to us, those close to our hearts. Do remember to share that $100 worth of your time with someone you love? If we die tomorrow, the company that w e are working for could easily replace us in a matter of days. But the family and friends we leave behind will feel the loss for the rest of their lives. And come to think of it, we pour ourselves more into work than to our family.

Reminder- Practice Sunday at EC Lawrence Park From 5pm to 7pm

Bad Backs will be having practice Sunday at EC Lawrence Park from 5pm-7pm. We will have access to the on-the-field goals, thanks to Chris Adams and some of his connections. We'd like to have a full field game, so invite your friends. Please send me an email as to your availability. I need to get a headcount for practice asap.

Happy Hour!

Our team building happy hour was a huge success! If we had just one more person post, (John Kelly) we could have had a basketball team.

Putting a Face to a Name

We held our 2nd practice tonight and I'd like to thank everyone that was able to attend. Cyrus Krohn, Paul Gomez and Chris Adams were some of the new faces on the team and a very welcome addition. We will organize the practices over the next few weeks and begin looking at midfield lines, game plan, etc. A big thank you to Tim Frerick for letting us use his lacrosse goal and Sam Schuler for stepping in to add numbers to the teams. We look forward to seeing Collin Adams graduate from behind the net ball getter to scout team Matt Ward simulator.