Good morning. Here’s the latest from around the lacrosse world:

1. Major League Lacrosse's Championship Weekend from Charleston, S.C., kicks off tonight with the year-end awards ceremony at 6:30 p.m. on Lax Sports Network. The championship game between Dallas and Denver will be on Saturday at 7 p.m. and carried live on ESPN News.

The Steinfeld trophy will be in new hands on Saturday.
Will it go to @RattlersLax or @DenverOutlaws ?

Saturday (8/18)
7pm
ESPN News pic.twitter.com/GQ5NZAXeN3

— Major League Lacrosse (@MLL_Lacrosse) August 16, 2018

2. Kathy Taylor, head coach of NCAA Division II champion LeMoyne, will be a featured presenter at LaxCon, the annual US Lacrosse Convention taking place on Jan. 11-13, 2019 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. Registration opens in less than a month.

3.Hard-working Peter Milliman has shed the interim title and has Cornell dreaming big again.

4. US Lacrosse is celebrating applications for its National Diversity Grant Program. Last year, US Lacrosse awarded $88,000 in support of local organizations.

5. The US Lacrosse Greater Rochester Chapter is welcoming five new individuals and two teams into its Hall of Fame.

2018 US Lacrosse Greater Rochester Chapter Hall of Fame:
Dick Baran
Andrew Copelan
Terry Cotton
Ed Mulheron
Danielle Spencer
2004 Penn Yan Girls Team
2009 Canandaigua Boys Team
The dinner honoring their success will take place 11/2/18 at Burgundy Basin, Pittsford, NY at 6 PM

— US Lacrosse of Greater Rochester (@USLaxofRoc) August 16, 2018

WHAT WE’RE READING

• Virginia's Ryan Conrad and Matt Dziama were both denied a fifth year of eligibility by the NCAA and will be seniors in 2019.

• Lots of assistant coaching news in the men's ranks, beginning with Bellarmine announcing Kyle Bernlohr and Steve Soriano as new full-time assistant coaches for its men's lacrosse program.

• Dan Cocchi is also on the move, heading to Rutgers as a new assistant coach.

• Finally, Holy Cross named Shyane Lynch as a new assistant coach.

• The U.S. Women's National Team won the inaugural World Games title last summer in Poland - a new publication shows the amazing variety of sports contested during the event.

• As expected, Christian Del Bianco dominated the opening game of the Minto Cup, leading Coquitlam to a 16-1 victory over Calgary.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Wednesday was #PlayLaxDay and The Lacrosse Network put together a compilation of some of the best video submitted to them from around the world.

Where’d you get out and play this #PlayLaxDay  Compilation video is LIVE! : https://t.co/iwzkYW5AZT pic.twitter.com/Du8XtA11s3

— TLN (@LacrosseNetwork) August 17, 2018

Boston University men's lacrosse coach Ryan Polley gives field hockey a try.

Think @RyanPolleyBU's stick skills translate to @TerrierFH's turf? Find out on this edition of Summer Sessions! pic.twitter.com/UhMFkdMcUD

— BU Athletics (@BUAthletics) August 16, 2018

WHAT’S ON TAP

• "Crossroads," a documentary featuring the lacrosse program at Charlotte Secondary will make its debut on ESPN next Thursday. We'll have more next week on US Lacrosse' involvement with this program.

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