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  				<title>Laxpunk's Trial by Fury</title>
  				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury</link>
  				<description>A gathering of on the spot lax topics, everyday shenanigans, serious mumbo jumbo served warm with a side of thick gravy.</description>
  				<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:14:46 -0600</pubDate><item>
    				<title>Just Punkin' Around</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100020</link>
    				<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;So Laxpunk is finally out of his mom's basement and is starting his own blog!&amp;nbsp; Can you believe that this site allows me to express my feelings about whatever I want for all to see.&amp;nbsp; I think thats pretty darn neat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't have a topic today as I just stumbled upon Laxspot.com.&amp;nbsp; But I have to say that the site seems pretty cool guys...well done.&amp;nbsp; Hopefully the Laxpunk Nation will take over by storm!&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.cancontrol.net/PUNKER.jpg&quot; border=&quot;1&quot; alt=&quot;old school...&quot; width=&quot;380&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; align=&quot;middle&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;There&amp;nbsp;are so many topics that we can discus and hopefully we can hit them all.&amp;nbsp; 2008 should surely be a great season in all respects.&amp;nbsp; So let's move forward and hope for some excellent play at all ranks.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;visibility: visible; margin-left: auto; width: 450px; margin-right: auto; text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;object classid=&quot;clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0&quot; name=&quot;mp3player&quot; width=&quot;435&quot; height=&quot;270&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;name&quot; value=&quot;mp3player&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;width&quot; value=&quot;435&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;height&quot; value=&quot;270&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/mp3player-othersite.swf?config=http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/config/config_black.xml&amp;amp;mywidth=435&amp;amp;myheight=270&amp;amp;playlist_url=http://www.musicplaylist.us/loadplaylist.php?playlist=21638686&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;border&quot; value=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;pluginspage&quot; value=&quot;http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;quality&quot; value=&quot;high&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;menu&quot; value=&quot;false&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;never&quot; /&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; name=&quot;mp3player&quot; width=&quot;435&quot; height=&quot;270&quot; src=&quot;http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/mp3player-othersite.swf?config=http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/config/config_black.xml&amp;amp;mywidth=435&amp;amp;myheight=270&amp;amp;playlist_url=http://www.musicplaylist.us/loadplaylist.php?playlist=21638686&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; pluginspage=&quot;http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot; quality=&quot;high&quot; menu=&quot;false&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;never&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.musicplaylist.us/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/images/create_black.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.musicplaylist.us/standalone/21638686&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/images/launch_black.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.musicplaylist.us/download/21638686&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.musicplaylist.us/mc/images/get_black.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;div value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/EmbWywI4vls&amp;amp;rel=1&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div value=&quot;transparent&quot; name=&quot;wmode&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object classid=&quot;clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;width&quot; value=&quot;425&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;height&quot; value=&quot;355&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/EmbWywI4vls&amp;amp;rel=1&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot; /&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/EmbWywI4vls&amp;amp;rel=1&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;/align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;-&lt;strong&gt;Greg Ginn&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2007 11:12:22 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>Street Dogs and New Year's Eve</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100036</link>
    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;The report from the Street Dogs show was that &amp;quot;IT ROCKED!&amp;quot;.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt;Punk hit up the show with former Swamp Dawg all-stars Johnny Crazylegs and Diggity D.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;I saw a couple of laxers at the show...you can tell by their Bmore floptop.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;For a show containing an Irish/Boston rooted punk band, the Ottobar sure did run out of Guinness quickly.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Luckily for us that the Natty Boh's were ice cold.&lt;o:p&gt;&lt;/o:p&gt;&lt;o:p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/o:p&gt; &lt;p style=&quot;margin: 0in 0in 0pt&quot; class=&quot;MsoPlainText&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Laxpunk is wondering what everyone's doin for NYE.&amp;nbsp; He'll probably do a &amp;quot;Be all you can be&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;aka All you can drink and eat special.&amp;nbsp; Let me know where the party is goin to be at and follow up with some good stories or photos of your good time!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;OUT!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;span class=&quot;huge&quot;&gt;Were it not for the Clash, punk would have been just a sneer, a safety pin and a pair of bondage trousers&amp;quot;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;bodybold&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-Billy Bragg&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:38:11 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>New Years Lazy Days</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100059</link>
    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;So I figured out the plans for NYE.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Two parties, and they're only a few blocks away from each other, so thats win-win.&amp;nbsp; Now Punk's just gotta find himself a nice lady to ring in the new year with.&amp;nbsp;..wink wink. &amp;nbsp;I guess he'll just have to wait until the irons hot to strike.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So I went on the NLL homepage and man that site was rocking out.&amp;nbsp; They have a jukebox goin in the background.&amp;nbsp; I think thats just as great as playing music while the games goin on!&amp;nbsp; I'm just playing, it brings a cool attitude to the site which is good if you're looking for that attitude.&amp;nbsp; I'd prefer to hear RUSH since the Canadians dominate the league.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now that this laxspot.com site is available to the public, I hope that folks take the initiateve and start their own blogs, groups and such because you probably don't want to read Punk's drivvel.&amp;nbsp; It's the type of individualism that Punk normally speaks of.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This is the Internet in its true form, allowing the users to put up anything they want (within reason per the site).&amp;nbsp; Who am I kidding.&amp;nbsp; Hopefully some lax starts soon so we can really Punk out.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;huge&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;The jury had down right contempt for punk rock grass roots ethics.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;bodybold&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-Jello Biafra&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2007 09:39:08 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>Pats 16-0 vs an Undefeated Lax Season</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100070</link>
    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;So tonight I got to watch the New England Patriots go 16-0 in the regular season and I have to say that that is as punk as you can get.&amp;nbsp; The Giants played a great game, but 3 cheers to the Pats for pulling that off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Punk is wondering, how do the past couple of undefeated lacrosse champions compare to the New England Patriots in what they pulled off this season (even though it's just the regular NFL season thus far).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the 2005 season, D1 Johns Hopkins was 16-0 and D3 Salisbury went 20-0 in their respective championship runs.&amp;nbsp; In 2006, D1 Virginia went 17-0 and D2 Lemoyne went 15-0.&amp;nbsp; And to top all off most recently, Salisbury went 23-0 to win the national championship in D3.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Punk can recall being at some of these games for all these teams and wants to know what the lacrosse community thinks about how these teams unblemished records compare to what the Patriots have done this season thus far. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously this Patriots team won't be recognized as &amp;quot;The Best&amp;quot; if they don't win the Super Bowl, but as of now, it doesn't look like anyone will beat them.&amp;nbsp; What do you think?&amp;nbsp; Give me Punk your thoughts!!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;huge&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot; face=&quot;Verdana&quot;&gt;Every generation's got to have somewhere to play. But of course I suppose the punk thing was just too ugly, and too aggressive, and too reactionary.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;bodybold&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot; face=&quot;Verdana&quot;&gt;-Michael Giles&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 01:28:26 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>Laxpunk's Fantasy NLL Team</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100071</link>
    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;Punk has decided to put a team in the NLL.com Fantasy league.&amp;nbsp; Last year I dominated my league and won the overall title.&amp;nbsp; It helped having NLL stars such as Lewis Ratcliffe, Colin Doyle, Ryan Boyle, Danny Marohl, Shawn Evans and Athan Iannucci on one squad.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I think I had the Mamoth defense as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So the &amp;quot;Laxpunx&amp;quot; are in good ole public league #281.&amp;nbsp; Punk is predicting another strong year for the punx squad.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;huge&quot;&gt;Punk is not really a style of music. It was more like a state of mind.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span class=&quot;bodybold&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-Mike Watt&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Sun, 30 Dec 2007 14:59:22 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>What's Up With Marching Bands??</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100081</link>
    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk is a fan of all types of music, but what's the deal with marching bands?&amp;nbsp; While watching the bowl games this week, I've discovered a new pet&amp;nbsp;peeve; and thats the out of date gear that they are forced to wear.&lt;/font&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://111george.com/jaymin/joey_7.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Poor guy!&quot; width=&quot;139&quot; height=&quot;192&quot; align=&quot;left&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;The feather in their weird hat is does not make anyone feel good.&amp;nbsp; And what's up with the strap at it's chin on the hats as well!?&amp;nbsp; Seriously?&amp;nbsp; They have to wear these cheesy looking jackets made of polyester.&amp;nbsp; They should really update the band attire.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Living in Baltimore,&amp;nbsp;you can go to a&amp;nbsp;Ravens game and see these folks dressed up all silly too.&amp;nbsp; I&amp;nbsp;know that there's a&amp;nbsp;tradition behind it, but why make a kid in the band look silly.&amp;nbsp; For crying out loud,&amp;nbsp;it's&amp;nbsp;tough enough to play an instrument.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Don't get me wrong, these folks are extremely talented. &amp;nbsp;But dressing up like a&amp;nbsp;clown probably doesn't make it much easier.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The tuba guy should have the story, &amp;quot;This one time, at band camp...I duct taped down the conductor until he promised us some new threads.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;I guess that I'm glad that the marching band isn't a big thing in lacrosse.&amp;nbsp; If you're going to bring an instrument (which is highly recommended&amp;nbsp;because its cool) please do so.&amp;nbsp; Just leave the silly outfit at home.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div height=&quot;178&quot; width=&quot;212&quot;&gt;&lt;div value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/I6loLrgjImY&amp;amp;rel=1&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div value=&quot;transparent&quot; name=&quot;wmode&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;object classid=&quot;clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0&quot; width=&quot;212&quot; height=&quot;178&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;width&quot; value=&quot;212&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;height&quot; value=&quot;178&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/I6loLrgjImY&amp;amp;rel=1&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot; /&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;212&quot; height=&quot;178&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/I6loLrgjImY&amp;amp;rel=1&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Your generation don't mean a thing to me!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;-Generation X&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 21:59:30 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>The Wire: All Lax Team</title>
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    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk likes to watch The Wire.&amp;nbsp; What a great show!&amp;nbsp; Unlike HBO's other hit series, The Sopranos, things actually happen in this show and it hasn't dragge on for years.&amp;nbsp; Since they're in Baltimore, you know that they all have to play lacrosse.&amp;nbsp; If they could only learn to play together, they'd be a sick team.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is my All-Time starting team for The Wire Lacrosse Club who plays their games out of Clifton Park.&lt;/font&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 509px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Coaches &lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 510px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/balt_pd/sgtjaylandsman.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Sgt. Jay Landsman&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/theport/franksobotka.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Frank Sobotka&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 509px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Attack&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 509px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/theport/ziggy.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/theport/ziggy.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ziggy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quick and versitile feeder from&amp;nbsp;the X.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/balt_pd/bunk.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;BUNK&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Det. William &amp;quot;Bunk&amp;quot; Moreland&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A Garbage Man on the crease, Bunk loves to use the big booty to shield off defenseman.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/cityhall/claydavis.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Senator Clay Davis&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This trash talkin attackman has a rocket outside shot.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 509px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Midfield&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 509px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/thestreet/marlo.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Marlo Stanfield&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Always looks good in the newest lax gear.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/thestreet/chrispartlow.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Chris Paltrow&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;The do-it-all middie who gets the dirty work done.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/balt_pd/jimmymcnulty.jpg&quot; 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width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Omar Little&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Omar loves to swing the lumber and spends a lot of time in the box.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/balt_pd/herc.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Thomas &amp;quot;Herk&amp;quot; Hauk&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Punishes anyone around the crease and hates sprints.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/balt_pd/bunnycolvin.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Howard &amp;quot;Bunny&amp;quot; Clovin&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;He got the nickname &amp;quot;Bunny&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;from his sick checks.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 509px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Goalie&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 509px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/thestreet/propjoe.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Joe &amp;quot;Proposition Joe&amp;quot; Steward&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Prop Joe's size makes it tough to score.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 510px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;Water Boy&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Mascot&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 510px; height: 22px; border-width: 1px; border-color: #000000&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/castlanding/randy.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; width=&quot;90&quot; height=&quot;94&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Randy Wagstaff&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Reduced to waterboy for snitchin&lt;br /&gt;on Bunk's stat changing.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.hbo.com/thewire/img/90x94/characters/thestreet/bubbles.jpg&quot; 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    				<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:41:31 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>Some shows &amp;amp; Fantasy Update</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100126</link>
    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;I don't know how I can top that All-Time Best of The Wire team post.&amp;nbsp; Man that show is great.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I watch a week ahead on On-Demand so i won't ruin anything for ya this week.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So apparently I messed my NLL fantasy team up by not starting a&amp;nbsp;D-man.&amp;nbsp; I will have to get on the wires and get a good transition guy.&amp;nbsp; I'm 0-1 right now and when the site updates, I'm sure to be 0-2 when they re-tally.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I have a good group of guys and I messed it up.&amp;nbsp; Way to go Punk!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here's the guys on my roster:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;A good group,&amp;nbsp;I messed up.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I guess my dominance from last year is over.&amp;nbsp; I'll rebound just wait.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;edm&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; mike accursi&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;tor&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ryan benesch &lt;br /&gt;chi&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; mat giles&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;phi&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; dan marohl&lt;br /&gt;buf&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; delby powless &lt;br /&gt;edm&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ben prepchuk&lt;br /&gt;tor&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; josh sanderson&lt;br /&gt;edm&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; dan stroup&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;buf&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; john tavares &lt;br /&gt;col&amp;nbsp; f&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; jason wulder&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;tor&amp;nbsp; g&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; toronto goaltenders &lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;So punk hit up two shows last week which is crazy because&amp;nbsp;I haven't been able to hit up any shows lately.&amp;nbsp; The first was a total pop-punk show with&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.thequeersrock.com&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;The Queers&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt; at the Ottobar in Baltimore near JHU.&amp;nbsp; Punk had a great time sporting his&amp;nbsp;GIANTS jersey in front of those new england pop-punkers.&amp;nbsp; They rocked even though Joe had a bum voice from playin so many shows over the past few weeks.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I was upset that I missed The Leftovers because the Giants celebration was going on and it took a while to get to the show.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On monday&amp;nbsp;I hit up the sidebar in baltimore to check out a great local rock n roll band,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.myspace.com/themotherlesschildren&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Lazlo Lee and the Motherless Children&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;3&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp; It wasn't too crowded, but as always they put on a good set.&amp;nbsp; Goin out on a Monday is always tough even for punk.&amp;nbsp; This gettin old thing sux.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;Don't Play with the Dead&amp;quot;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div height=&quot;355&quot; width=&quot;425&quot;&gt;&lt;div value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/HUMraW09-fU&amp;amp;rel=1&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div value=&quot;transparent&quot; name=&quot;wmode&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;object classid=&quot;clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;width&quot; value=&quot;425&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;height&quot; value=&quot;355&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/HUMraW09-fU&amp;amp;rel=1&quot; /&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/HUMraW09-fU&amp;amp;rel=1&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;Lazlo Lee &amp;amp; the Motherless Children&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:27:00 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>Punks Top 20 Poll</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100130</link>
    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk's preseason picks are so much more reliable than the other &amp;quot;sources&amp;quot;.&amp;nbsp; What do they know?&amp;nbsp; We'll see.&amp;nbsp; I don't care who won last year, they're not #1 to start out in the Punk Poll.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Virginia&lt;br /&gt;2. Duke &lt;br /&gt;3. Georgetown&lt;br /&gt;4. Johns Hopkins&lt;br /&gt;5. Princeton&lt;br /&gt;6. Maryland&lt;br /&gt;7. North Carolina&lt;br /&gt;8.&amp;nbsp;Cornell&lt;br /&gt;9. Syracuse&lt;br /&gt;10. Notre Dame&lt;br /&gt;11. Navy&lt;br /&gt;12. Towson&lt;br /&gt;13. Loyola&lt;br /&gt;14. Albany&lt;br /&gt;15. UMBC&lt;br /&gt;16. Hofstra&lt;br /&gt;17. Ohio State&lt;br /&gt;18. Delaware&lt;br /&gt;19. Bucknell&lt;br /&gt;20. Drexel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:41:07 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>Punk's Lax Update</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100167</link>
    				<description>&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Men's College Lacrosse is in good shape thus far in this cold 2008.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last weekend, at least here in Baltimore we got two games on regular&amp;nbsp;TV (Loyola v Towson, MD v Gtown).&amp;nbsp; I was told that ESPN U had the JHU v Albany game on also.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Not too shabby if you didn't want to freeze your butt off.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From what I personally saw, and I know it's Week 1 for most teams, Towson is in for a long year, Gtown will turn things around and the Terps could be in for a real fun year with those freshman.&amp;nbsp; That one kid Grant Catalino&amp;nbsp;is a big boy who has 7 goals already.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What is up with Virginia?&amp;nbsp; They should be mopping the floor with teams such as Drexel and Stonybrook but they didn't.&amp;nbsp; At least they came out on top and also took down Vermont this week as well.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As far as who is &amp;quot;The Team&amp;quot; right now, it's too early to say.&amp;nbsp; I like North Carolina winning some games.&amp;nbsp; It's about time they turn around that program.&amp;nbsp; If not, send Haus to my office, cuz he's fired.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In D2 action, Bryant spanked Adelphi.&amp;nbsp; I don't know how Adelphi is supposed to be this season, but this is something out of the ordinary in D2.&amp;nbsp; I know of all the hype over Bryant with Pressler there, but thats a wollop of a win, 16-7 starting out 6-0 for the Bulldogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The main D3 story&amp;nbsp;has to be that&amp;nbsp;Salisbury barely held off Lynchburg for a 10-9 victory and according to Gull Fan, it was the first time that the Gulls were blanked in a quarter since a 3-2 OT win vs OWU in 2001.&amp;nbsp; Punk was there.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;And finally, I think that there's nothing better than a lax-playin chick as I saw quite a few last weekend at various lacrosse functions.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; I guess I have a soft spot for a nice gal that can lax it up.&amp;nbsp; Does that make me a laxtitute?&amp;nbsp; If so, I'm okay with that and feel free to label me.&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 10:21:06 -0600</pubDate>
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    				<title>Punk - Lax Ramble</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100184</link>
    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Just rockin out at work here...it's Social D time.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had yet another great weekend of lax and things are only going to get better as the weather warms up.&amp;nbsp; Besides that, Punk can start wearing the hammock without being too cold.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The lacrosse classic a couple weekends ago was a good time except the frigid weather.&amp;nbsp; I didn't even make it to Flogging Molly later that night due to the adult beverage consumption.&amp;nbsp; I saw the Lax Spot folks there hitting on every girl that walked by.&amp;nbsp; I guess that's how they roll?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big win for the Flyin' Dutchmen last week.&amp;nbsp; Pride is just a lame name and Punk refuses to&amp;nbsp;say it ever again.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;JHU had a tough week with a tight one against UMBC as well.&amp;nbsp; Punk thought Loyola was going to have a turn around year, but they just balled up and took steel tipped kodiaks to the teeth for about 60 minutes against the Dukies.&amp;nbsp; Their pride was out the window after the opening whistle and it showed.&amp;nbsp; If you're playing big time D1 ball, you should wear that heart on your sleeve all day, not just out at the bar trying to pick up chicks and start fights at CVPs.&amp;nbsp; Okay, I said pride again but they looked ridiculous and&amp;nbsp;had HUGE heads after a few wins.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I would update on my Fantasy NLL team, however the good networking folks have placed a block on the site here at work.&amp;nbsp; Maybe I'll take some time from being rad to check it later.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Pogues are playing tonight in Baltimore with the Pietasters.&amp;nbsp; Always a treat to see the Pietasters as they put on a fun and energetic show.&amp;nbsp; &lt;font color=&quot;#ff0000&quot;&gt;Grab your keys in one hand and your beer in the other..drink! drink! drink!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:53:38 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>Punk Poll Update 4/1</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100211</link>
    				<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Wow, some shake ups in the polls over the past few weeks.&amp;nbsp; Punk is surprised by&amp;nbsp;Cuse and MD thus far.&amp;nbsp; After the dismantling of UVA by MD, just think how good this MD team could be in a year or so after these freshmen get some big game experience.&amp;nbsp; (Like UVA, Duke, etc don't count).&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two teams that have Punk perplexed are Towson and UMass.&amp;nbsp; I can understand UMass having some trouble due to the brawlers, etc, but what's up with Towson?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Punk posted a poll prior to the season and now its time to re-evaluate.&amp;nbsp; Punk was right with JHU not being #1&amp;nbsp;his original poll.&amp;nbsp; It's tough to pick those 10-20 because they beat on each other all season.&amp;nbsp; The top 10 is the place to be.&amp;nbsp; So here is&amp;nbsp;Punks Top 10 with 11-20 in no particular order and two surprise votes because Punk likes to cause trouble.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;1.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Duke&lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Syracuse&lt;br /&gt;3.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; UVA&lt;br /&gt;4.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; UNC&lt;br /&gt;5.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Maryland&lt;br /&gt;6.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Cornell&lt;br /&gt;7.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Georgetown&lt;br /&gt;8.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Navy&lt;br /&gt;9.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Norte Dame&lt;br /&gt;10. UMBC&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Johns Hopkins, Hofstra, Princeton, Drexel, Loyola, Stonybrook, Harvard, Delaware, Salisbury, Lemoyne&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 06:40:51 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>Punk: Almost Playoff Time!</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100233</link>
    				<description>&lt;div width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;div name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/-SjfKXPMHLM&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk has been laying low for the most part as of late.&amp;nbsp; I got to go to a great show this past week featuring Trever Keith from &lt;/font&gt;&lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://www.facetofacemusic.com/blog/&quot;&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Face to Face&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;.&amp;nbsp; He played his new solo album but announced that Face to Face is back together (well part-time anyway) but is planning on touring again starting this summer.&amp;nbsp; It is a must make show for anyone who is a fan, or is into any type of music!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So there is a big weekend coming up to decide the seedings in all divsions.&amp;nbsp; I can't give any brackets, because that would take too much thought tonight.&amp;nbsp; But if the Final Four weekend was upon us, here are Punk's picks.&amp;nbsp; On Sunday, May 4th, we'll have a better picture of what to expect.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Most of D1 is pretty much set.&amp;nbsp; Will there be a Delaware this year, who knows.&amp;nbsp; Duke had a handle on UVA in the ACC finals until the 4th quarter, but with that potent offense,&amp;nbsp;they should cruise into the Final Four.&amp;nbsp; In D2 will most likely be the norm.&amp;nbsp; D3 however, watch out for Cortland.&amp;nbsp; They are putting up numbers and I don't think that anyone in D3 can stop Ryan Heath.&amp;nbsp; Gburg may just put a stop to Salisbury's streak of finals appearences.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;font face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;D1:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Duke&lt;br /&gt;UVA&lt;br /&gt;Syracuse&lt;br /&gt;Georgetown&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Champion:&amp;nbsp; Duke&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;D2:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lemoyne&lt;br /&gt;Limestone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Champion: Lemoyne&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;D3:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gettysburg&lt;br /&gt;Cortland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Champion: Cortland&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;object classid=&quot;clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;width&quot; value=&quot;425&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;height&quot; value=&quot;355&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;wmode&quot; value=&quot;transparent&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/-SjfKXPMHLM&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; /&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;355&quot; wmode=&quot;transparent&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/-SjfKXPMHLM&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Face to Face - Disconnected&lt;/div&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 23:29:52 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>1st Annual - Punk Awards</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100259</link>
    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk has been one busy dude lately.&amp;nbsp; But since I didn't get a chance to address my peoples, I figured I'd give it all to you know including the 1st Annual&amp;nbsp;Punk Awards - 2008.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This award is about just being nasty on the field and having everyone want to be you off the field.&amp;nbsp; So basically its just a player of the year or something.&amp;nbsp; Punk doesn't want to think too hard, so here they are.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;u&gt;1st Annual Punk Awards&lt;/u&gt; - Sponsored by LaxSpot.com (&lt;em&gt;Powered by the Lacrosse Community!&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D1 - Paul Rabil - JHU&amp;nbsp;-&amp;nbsp; Nasty, nasty, nasty!&amp;nbsp; And proved it in the National Championship Game.&amp;nbsp; He drew the LSM all season.&amp;nbsp; Without the supporting cast that some other studs had, he put it all on his shoulders.&amp;nbsp; 50 points (36,14)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D2 - Greg Cerar - CW Post - He put up some great numbers as a junior and he can feed the rock as&amp;nbsp;well as he scores.&amp;nbsp; 67 points (43,24)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;D3 - Kylor Berkman - Salisbury - A 2nd championship for Kylor as he led the Gulls at the midfield all season.&amp;nbsp; 81 points (33,48) for a midfielder ain't too shabby!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to all for reading this season.&amp;nbsp; I know that you're smarter and more awesome (&lt;em&gt;awesomer&lt;/em&gt;) for doing so.&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Punk will keep on posting as I hit the summer tournaments, the beach and tryin to juggle all of these lovely ladies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;div width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;div name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/fLuNCX0Kh3c&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;object classid=&quot;clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;width&quot; value=&quot;425&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;height&quot; value=&quot;344&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/fLuNCX0Kh3c&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; /&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/fLuNCX0Kh3c&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;div name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/QFNZdxTeTLs&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;object classid=&quot;clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;width&quot; value=&quot;425&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;height&quot; value=&quot;344&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/QFNZdxTeTLs&amp;amp;hl=en&quot; /&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/QFNZdxTeTLs&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jun 2008 16:50:16 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>Punks Playoff Picks</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100240</link>
    				<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk loves the playoffs!&amp;nbsp; Time to separate the punks from the nerds.&amp;nbsp; Predicting the outcomes for the '08 playoffs will be harder than ever this season with all the 'parity' out there this year.&amp;nbsp; Punk even has the scoop on who's going to take the women's championships too.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;D1 Mens:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; - I guess my prior picks were wrong seeing that Georgetown didn't even get into the tourney.&amp;nbsp; How'd I not see that coming?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;First&amp;nbsp;Round&lt;/em&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Duke over Loyola&lt;br /&gt;Ohio State over Cornell&lt;br /&gt;Johns Hopkins over Hofstra&lt;br /&gt;North Carolina over Navy&lt;br /&gt;Syracuse over Canisius&lt;br /&gt;Notre Dame over Colgate&lt;br /&gt;Maryland over Denver&lt;br /&gt;Virginia over UMBC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quarterfinals&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Duke over Ohio State&lt;br /&gt;Johns Hopkins over North Carolina&lt;br /&gt;Syracuse over Notre Dame&lt;br /&gt;Virginia over Maryland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Semis&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Duke over Johns Hopkins&lt;br /&gt;Syracuse over Virginia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finals&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Duke vs Syracuse - Winner TBA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuse has had a great season, but so has Duke.&amp;nbsp; This game will be high scoring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;D2 Mens:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;First Round (May 17th)&lt;/em&gt;:&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Lemoyne over Bryant&lt;br /&gt;Limestone over NYIT&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finals&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Lemoyne&amp;nbsp;vs Limestone - Winner TBA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;D3 Mens:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;First Round:&amp;nbsp; &lt;/em&gt;It already happend on Wednesday but Punk would've picked all the winners.&amp;nbsp; OWU, Bowdoin, Springfield, WNEC&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Second Round&lt;/em&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Cortland over Springfield&lt;br /&gt;Middlebury over Bowdoin&lt;br /&gt;Ithaca over Williams&lt;br /&gt;Saint Lawrence over WNEC&lt;br /&gt;Salisbury over OWU&lt;br /&gt;Haverford over Cabrini&lt;br /&gt;Washington over Lynchburg&lt;br /&gt;Gettysburg over Denison&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quarterfinals&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Cortland over Middlebury&lt;br /&gt;Ithaca over Saint Lawrence&lt;br /&gt;Salisbury over Haverford&lt;br /&gt;Gettysburg over Washington&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Semis&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Cortland over Ithaca&lt;br /&gt;Salisbury over Gettysburg &amp;lt;--Punk flipped this from his &lt;a target=&quot;_blank&quot; href=&quot;http://laxspot.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/index.php?pst_id=100233&quot;&gt;4/30 picks&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finals&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Cortland vs Salisbury - Winner TBA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yes for the third straight year these two powerhouse state universities will face off in the D3 finals.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Punk expects to see lots of tight shirts and gold chains on one side and shaggy hair and madaras shorts on the other.&amp;nbsp; A standard NY vs MD battle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now time for the ladies.&amp;nbsp; Gotta love the ladies!&amp;nbsp; I think their sticks are better than guys after watching some top teams play this season.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;D1 Womens:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;First&amp;nbsp;Round&lt;/em&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Northwestern over Notre Dame&lt;br /&gt;Vanderbilt over Princeton&lt;br /&gt;Towson over Syracuse&lt;br /&gt;Virginia over North Carolina&lt;br /&gt;Maryland over Temple&lt;br /&gt;Georgetown over Duke&lt;br /&gt;Boston U over New Hampshire&lt;br /&gt;Penn over Colgate&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quarterfinals&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Northwestern over Vanderbilt&lt;br /&gt;Virginia over Towson&lt;br /&gt;Maryland over Georgetown&lt;br /&gt;Penn over Boston U&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Semis&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Virginia over Northwestern&lt;br /&gt;Maryland over Penn&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finals&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Virginia vs Maryland - Winner TBA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Upsets, upsets, upsets.&amp;nbsp; You heard it here first!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;D2 Womens:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;First&amp;nbsp;Round&lt;/em&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Adelphi over CW Post&lt;br /&gt;West Chester over Limestone&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finals&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Adelphi vs West Chester - Winner TBA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;D3 Womens:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;Second Round&lt;/em&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Salisbury over St. Mary's&lt;br /&gt;Rowan over Catholic&lt;br /&gt;Gettysburg over Middlebury&lt;br /&gt;Hamilton over Colby&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;F&amp;amp;M over Babson&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;W&amp;amp;L over Amherst&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Cortland over Union&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;TCNJ over Claremont&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Third Round&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Salisbury over Rowan&lt;br /&gt;Hamilton over Gettysburg&lt;br /&gt;F&amp;amp;M over W&amp;amp;L&lt;br /&gt;TCNJ over Cortland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Semis&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;Salisbury over Hamilton&lt;br /&gt;TCNJ over Cortland&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Finals&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;p&gt;Salisbury vs TCNJ - Winner TBA!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I didn't want to pick all the&amp;nbsp;winners now.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;You wouldn't have to&amp;nbsp;even pay attention to the games as my&amp;nbsp;pick's are right on target!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/font&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 10:57:07 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>Punks Playoff Picks - Update</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100245</link>
    				<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk did pretty good in his picks last weekend.&amp;nbsp; Well at least in the men's side of things!&amp;nbsp; Here's how good I was.&amp;nbsp; Punk had UVA in the D1 women's championship...so luckily my winner is TBD!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Men's&lt;br /&gt;D1: 7-1 (Lost UNC game)&lt;br /&gt;D2: No games&lt;br /&gt;D3: 6-2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Women's &lt;br /&gt;D1: 4-4 (Lost Vandy, Towson, Gtown, UVA)&lt;br /&gt;D2: No games&lt;br /&gt;D3: 4-4 on Sat plus 4-0 on Sunday&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;So much for getting the picks for today's games.&amp;nbsp; Cortland is losing 9-7 in the 4th.&amp;nbsp; That could throw off Punk's D3 championship picks.&amp;nbsp; We'll stick with my original picks and see how things go the rest of the way.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 16:27:43 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>Mid Season: MLL</title>
    				<link>http://laxspot.e-lacrosse.com/blogs/laxpunks_trial_by_fury/?pst_id=100290</link>
    				<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk thinks that this has actually been an exciting season in the MLL thus far.&amp;nbsp; With Philly on the road all year and losing its first 3 games, they have really turned things around but have Long Island to deal with to take the East title.&amp;nbsp; Go figure that Denver is the top team in the West and probably the entire league.&amp;nbsp; They had 20,000+ at a game last week.&amp;nbsp; That's awesome!&amp;nbsp; Denver is handsdown the best sports city in the US.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They'll put fans in the seats for just about anything.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Two teams have been a disappointment&amp;nbsp;so far.&amp;nbsp; Both Rochester and LA have winning records, but they should be doing a lot better.&amp;nbsp; Jr. and Casey on attack...are you kidding me!?&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And finally, who knows what's going on in San Fran and Chicago.&amp;nbsp; Punk expected good things from both and has been let down.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps more draft picks next year?&amp;nbsp; Something has got to be done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Check out the names on this years all-star team.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This league is pretty darn good.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;0&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; style=&quot;width: 511px; height: 541px&quot;&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; color=&quot;#333333&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;Eastern Conference All-Stars&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#333333&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;Attack&lt;br /&gt;Spencer Ford (Long Island Lizards)&lt;br /&gt;John Grant Jr. (Rochester Rattlers)&lt;br /&gt;Mikey Powell (Boston Cannons)&lt;br /&gt;Merrick Thomson (New Jersey Pride)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Midfield&lt;br /&gt;Stephen Berger (Long Island Lizards)&lt;br /&gt;Kyle Dixon (Washington Bayhawks)&lt;br /&gt;Chris Fiore (Long Island Lizards)&lt;br /&gt;Shawn Nadelen (Washington Bayhawks)&lt;br /&gt;Matt Poskay (Boston Cannons)&lt;br /&gt;Paul Rabil (Boston Cannons)&lt;br /&gt;Matt Striebel (Philadelphia Barrage)&lt;br /&gt;Joe Walters (Rochester Rattlers)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Face-Off&lt;br /&gt;Peter Vlahakis (Long Island Lizards)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defense&lt;br /&gt;Brodie Merrill (Rochester Rattlers)&lt;br /&gt;Chris Passavia (Boston Cannons)&lt;br /&gt;Nick Polanco (Long Island Lizards)&lt;br /&gt;Kyle Sweeney (Philadelphia Barrage)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goal&lt;br /&gt;Chris Garrity (Washington Bayhawks)&lt;br /&gt;Rob Scherr (New Jersey Pride)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coaches&lt;br /&gt;Bill Daye (Boston Cannons)&lt;br /&gt;Tony Resch (Philadelphia Barrage)&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; color=&quot;#333333&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color=&quot;#0000ff&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;Western Conference All-Stars&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot; color=&quot;#333333&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;Attack&lt;br /&gt;Jake Byrne (San Francisco Dragons)&lt;br /&gt;Kevin Leveille (Chicago Machine)&lt;br /&gt;Brendan Mundorf (Denver Outlaws)&lt;br /&gt;Ryan Powell (Denver Outlaws) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Midfield&lt;br /&gt;Steven Brooks (Chicago Machine)&lt;br /&gt;Greg Downing (Los Angeles Riptide)&lt;br /&gt;Benson Erwin (Denver Outlaws)&lt;br /&gt;Matt Hanna (Denver Outlaws)&lt;br /&gt;Kyle Harrison (Los Angeles Riptide)&lt;br /&gt;Brian Langtry (Denver Outlaws)&lt;br /&gt;Jeff Sonke (Denver Outlaws)&lt;br /&gt;Chazz Woodson (Los Angeles Riptide)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Face-Off&lt;br /&gt;Anthony Kelly (Los Angeles Riptide)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Defense&lt;br /&gt;D.J. 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    				<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 08:42:34 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>All-Star Re-cap</title>
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    				<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;The MLL has done some strange things in their day, but overall Punk feels that the MLL does a good job with what they have right now.&amp;nbsp; But Punk is wondering if he should&amp;nbsp;register his discontent on the MLL-All Star Game or give the MLL praise?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Punk understands that it's critical to get the kids to follow the game, so all the college stars that haven't even played a half of a season, make the all-star game.&amp;nbsp; Good work guys!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;31-15...that's the kind of scoring that the league wants, so was that a good thing?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2-Point Accuracy Shot?&amp;nbsp; Benson Erwin was basically rolling the ball into the net.&amp;nbsp; Pretty cheesy.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Punk could've gave these pros a run for their $$ in that event.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Berger's flying acrobat shot was actually more funny that anything.&amp;nbsp; I guess its tough to think of a new and exciting lax shot.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What are your thoughts on the game?&amp;nbsp; Good, bad...ugly?&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;Arial&quot;&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:59:54 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>Tournament Bumbles and Recommendations</title>
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    				<description>&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk made it down to the Ocean City Lax Classic this weekend and started thinking wow, this game is growing.&amp;nbsp; There were 40 men's teams in the tournament and about 80&amp;nbsp;in all&amp;nbsp; It's always a great weekend, but the tournament overall was questionable. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here are&amp;nbsp;Punk's thoughts:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1.&amp;nbsp; 40 teams is a lot even if there is an A &amp;amp; B division - somehow, separate the good from the bad.&lt;br /&gt;2.&amp;nbsp; Winning teams should not play in the morning.&amp;nbsp; Save that for losers.&amp;nbsp; Punk couldn't tell you the amount of guys that were on winning teams and were telling me that they had 8,9,10am games.&lt;br /&gt;3.&amp;nbsp; Sunday games are a no-no unless you are playing for the gold.&lt;br /&gt;4.&amp;nbsp; Take into account that the atmosphere is why folks go to your tournament.&amp;nbsp; Set up tournament parties and have local watering holes and eateries involved in some deals to draw players.&amp;nbsp; Bikini and or wet t-shirt contests are always welcome.&amp;nbsp;:) &lt;br /&gt;5.&amp;nbsp; Find an arena that can handle the amount of teams.&amp;nbsp; If not available have concessions and stuff available at&amp;nbsp;all locations.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;6.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;If the tournament rules are set in advance, have all refs and tournament officials stick to them.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Some games had 4 poles, some 5, some 6.&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;7.&amp;nbsp; Re-seeding the teams on Friday night at 10:30pm is bad.&amp;nbsp; There were some rain delays so it had to happen, but seeding should take place at the beginning not half way through and you don't know when your team is going to play.&amp;nbsp; Use this years finish to seed for next.&amp;nbsp; New teams get the lower seeds by default. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Punk still loves the OC tournament and will be back for years to come to hang out and party and really likes the fact that the game is growing so much to handle 40 teams in the elite division of a tournament.&amp;nbsp; But don't&amp;nbsp;be so&amp;nbsp;greedy in the future.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;div value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/pVAF1M8X3og&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&quot; name=&quot;movie&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div value=&quot;true&quot; name=&quot;allowFullScreen&quot;&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;object classid=&quot;clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000&quot; codebase=&quot;http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; height=&quot;344&quot;&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;height&quot; value=&quot;344&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;width&quot; value=&quot;425&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot; /&gt;&lt;param name=&quot;src&quot; value=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/pVAF1M8X3og&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&quot; /&gt;&lt;embed type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; height=&quot;344&quot; width=&quot;425&quot; allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/pVAF1M8X3og&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;fs=1&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:40:31 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>MLB Playoffs...snoozeville</title>
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    				<description>Punk knew what time of year it was when he couldn't watch his fun-filled Fox lineup on Sunday night due to the MLB playoffs.&amp;nbsp; Don't get me wrong, I like the playoffs and championships for just about every sport but baseball is so ridiculous.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The average MLB game takes somewhere in the range of 2.5-3hrs.&amp;nbsp; But why is it that the average MLB playoff game takes 4-5hrs.&amp;nbsp; It's sooooooooooo boring.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Who wants to watch that on the boob tube?&amp;nbsp; I'll be happy to watch the highlights on sportscenter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's my rant.</description>
    				<pubDate>Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:59:09 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>Friday Night - Oi Oi Oi</title>
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    				<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Wassup Laxers!&amp;nbsp; Punk's too old to worry about Fall ball, so there's no lax really going on until the NLL season gets started.&amp;nbsp; Can't wait to see Gary give it another go up in Rochester.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punks heading to the NOFX show on Friday.&amp;nbsp; It should be filled with Fat Mike's lame political lectures, but most importantly some some rockin tunes.&amp;nbsp; Punk hopes to hear &amp;quot;Linoleum&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Moron Bros&amp;quot; and who couldn't go without hearing &amp;quot;Bob&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;1&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Friday night we'll be drinkin' Manishevitz, goin' out to terrorize goyim.&lt;br /&gt;Stompin' shegetz, screwin' shiksas, as long as we're home by Saturday mornin!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cuz Hey!&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;We're the Brews!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot;&gt;See ya at the show!!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 10:43:41 -0500</pubDate>
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    				<title>A Holiday Post...Not From Punk</title>
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    				<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Punk's buddy (who isn't as hardcore as Punk) wanted to post a blog but he was worried about what the ladies would think.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;I thought it was worthy of posting, a funny play on us laxers and it is geared for the holidays.&amp;nbsp; Thanks Alex...I mean 'bro'!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;=========================&lt;br /&gt;It's that wonderful time of year where we all reflect on how dubious we've been this past year and try to figure out ways to fix ourselves. Some of us are perfect as we are, but in the lacrosse players mind, we always have something to fix.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;10. Find a team with the most ridiculous team shorts and join the team just to get a pair. Also make sure the team has an awesome name like &amp;quot;The Anal Probes&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;Just the Tip&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;9. Make sure my tan line is rockin by may so&amp;nbsp;I can make sure all the ladies know&amp;nbsp;I am on a lax team and maybe they will give me the time of day.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;8. See number 9 and make sure the ladies get a ticket to the gun show. With this kind of tan, my guns look bigger than ever!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;7. Make sure i get some floral print summer gear. chick's dig it.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;6. Make sure I say bro more than 10 times per day.&amp;nbsp; They might revoke my lax card if I don't keep up with this one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;5. Buy some pro gear and then wear it on the field so dudes think I'm the man. (and then let them realize&amp;nbsp;I suck when I play).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;4. Get my plaid bermuda shorts to relax in. People will know I'm a laxer then.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;3. See number 4 and add some brown flip flops that have frayed edges so it looks like I've been wearing them for 3 years already.&amp;nbsp;I started this flip flop sheeeet!.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Get some elephant sized sun glasses that hide my entire face. The ladies won't know i'm ass ugly if they can't see my face.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;1. Start growing out the do in january so the locks o' lovin' are flowing out the back of the helmet. add a curling iron to the back so it looks sexay! (if you aren't into the locks, then make sure that hair gel is in full stock so you can spike that sh*t to the ceiling bro!)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;With these new resolutions, the ladies will be flowing your way and all your goals will be pinging corners.&amp;nbsp; Here's to a better laxer in you for 2009.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;font size=&quot;2&quot; face=&quot;tahoma,arial,helvetica,sans-serif&quot;&gt;Happy Holidays everyone!&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
    				<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 11:10:13 -0600</pubDate>
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