Inside Lacrosse Podcasts

MVP favorite CJ Kirst and Rookie of the Year contender Joey Spallina stop by an on-site edition of the PLL Happy Hour Podcast from Annapolis at Navy-Marine Corps Memorial Stadium, home of the 2026 All-Star Game. Kirst discusses the transition from winning an NLL title with the Toronto Rock to getting the season started in MVP form to the incredible lineup decisions and growing chemistry with his P...

Salisbury coach Jim Berkman sits with IL's Matt Kinnear and Dan Kaplan for a comprehensive conversation on his 38 years at the helm of Sea Gulls, the principles that made his program successful, how coaching has changed over four decades, building a winning culture and more. They delve into the Mount Rushmore of Salisbury greats and why Justin Axel will keep the program standard alive.

IL's Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown are back to break down the action through five weeks in the Premier Lacrosse League season after the New York Atlas went 2-0 at Hofstra, Boston lost in a game of inches then released Asher Nolting, and the Dylan Molloy show was worth the price of admission. Is the John Grant Jr. comparison legit? Dad strength was huge during Father's Day Weekend, the Atlas got...

With three weeks of the summer recruiting circuit under their belt and pretty much every high school championship in the books, IL's Dan Kaplan and Terry Foy set the tone for the top of the Class of 2028 rankings. They start with a comparison to the ’27 group and dive deep on the top-tier offensive players and goalies — especially Landen O'Neil and Harrison Tyler — and then recap the top performer...

Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown are back to size up the current standings, the unpredictability of the PLL so far this season and especially so in Week 4 down in Charlotte while also bringing on special guest from the New York Atlas, Hugh Kelleher.  Nicknamed the Big Red growing up before playing for the Cornell Big Red, Kelleher is fresh off winning three titles with Cornell in college, New York...

Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown welcome on Sticks In host Dan Arestia to help break down a flurry of player movement after Week 3, most notably the Ryan Croddick sweepstakes and Matt Rambo heading to play for the Atlas. From there, the three analyze the most interesting roster developments with Boston, Philadelphia and Utah before going into the best performers from the first month of the season....

Championship Wrap Up with Princeton’s Ryan Croddick and Chad Palumbo Princeton caps a dominant postseason with its first national title in 25 years, and D-Fly & Dixie break down every angle of Championship Weekend in Charlottesville. From Princeton’s blistering second‑quarter run to Notre Dame’s costly mistakes, the guys unpack how the Tigers seized control and never let go. They also revisit...

Fresh off Princeton's 16-9 win over Notre Dame in the NCAA Championship, a sweaty and exasperated Nick Ossello joins IL's Terry Foy and Larken Kemp to discuss the Tigers' zone defense, groundball superiority and flow-state offense. From there, they dive into the Tewaaraton race, unpack the Semifinals, break down the latest news on the saga surrounding Lars Tiffany's firing, discuss Charlottesville...

NCAA Championship Weekend Preview Oh, how the season flies by. The college lacrosse season moves like a blink. In early February, teams are grinding through freezing practices and games, breath visible in the air, the whole journey still ahead of them. And then, almost instantly, the cold is gone, the stakes rise, and every game feels like it carries a season’s weight. By late May, only four teams...

Once again, IL's Terry Foy and Nick Ossello press record during the fourth quarter of the final game of the weekend — this time it wasn't as dramatic as Duke closed out Georgetown, 16-6, to become the fourth team to punch its ticket to Saturday's NCAA Semifinals in Charlottesville, Va. Rewinding to Saturday, they begin with Syracuse's dramatic 13-11 win over North Carolina, replete with injury dra...

As spring turns to summer, IL's Terry Foy talks to NextRep founder Logan Frank about his new app, a marketplace launching in the DMV that will match prominent high school and college lacrosse players with aspiring young athletes looking to follow in their footsteps. What's most interesting about Frank and his plan is that he's done it once before — during the pandemic, when he was went home from S...

The latest episode of the D‑Fly & Dixie Podcast arrives just in time for quarterfinal weekend, and the guys bring back longtime friend of the show Christian Swezey to help break down all four matchups. They open with a look back at a wild first round — including Johns Hopkins’ gritty road win at Cornell, where the Blue Jays “ won a playoff game on the road with a goalie who made three saves ”...

Chris Rosenthall and Kevin Brown return for the latest PLL Happy Hour to analyze the impressive start to the season for the Waterdogs and Atlas in Utah. From a buzzing atmosphere filled with horns and a new style of play, Rosie and Kevin break down the Archers' weekend plus touch on California's defense and Carolina's second-half effort. Finishing off with a spin forward look to Week 2 in Providen...

What a weekend of college lacrosse! If you want to relive it all, join IL's Terry Foy, Nick Ossello and Larken Kemp as they press record with about 9:00 to play in Georgetown's win over Virginia, highlighted by their reaction to Jack Ransom's acrobatic no-foul goal. From their, they rewind back to ’Cuse's harrowing survival vs. Yale, Hopkins' OT win at Cornell and Larken shares his thoughts on the...

MAY MADNESS The latest episode of the D-Fly & Dixie Podcast dives headfirst into the opening weekend of the NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament, with special guest Ed Lee of The Baltimore Sun joining the show. Dan, Dixie, and Ed start by surveying one of the most wide‑open brackets in recent memory, discussing momentum teams like Princeton, Richmond, Virginia, Penn State, and Army. They also unpack...

The eighth Premier Lacrosse League season gets underway this weekend in Salt Lake City, the debut Women's Lacrosse League season starts next weekend in Providence and all of it will air on ESPN after the leagues inked a five-year extension with the Worldwide Leader. On the eve of the opening whistle, IL's Terry Foy went to the leagues' New York City office to sit down with President and Co-Founder...

On the heels of calling the Ivy League Tournament and hosting the NCAA Tournament Selection Show on ESPNU, Quint Kessenich joins IL's Terry Foy to look back at the final weekend of the regular season and look ahead to the opening round of May Madness. 

One of the biggest podcasts each year, IL's Terry Foy reacts to the bracket selection, welcoming in: NCAA Committee Chair Matthew Colagiovanni Johns Hopkins Coach Peter Milliman Stony Brook Coach Anthony Gilardi Jacksonville Coach John Galloway Army Coach Joe Alberici Yale Coach Andy Shay Colagiovanni makes his third and final appearance on this episode, identifying Yale as the last team in and Ma...

As National Cancer Research Month gets underway and as stories like Georgetown's James Carretta's diagnosis gain prominence, IL's Terry Foy welcomes in HEADstrong's Pat Colleluori as the organization celebrates its 20th anniversary. While Pat shares the groups origin story around his brother Nick, the conversation moves into ever more personal directions and culminates with where HEADstrong is hea...

This week’s episode drops a day earlier than usual - right as conference tournament semifinals begin, and D‑Fly and Dixie waste no time diving into the most pivotal stretch of the season. With half the country already done and the other half fighting for their postseason lives, they run through every conference with Inside Lacrosse editor‑in‑chief Matt Kinnear , breaking down favorites, upset form...

Larken is back! And he rejoins IL's Terry Foy to reflect on how things have changed since their season-opening show at Gillette Stadium and what's happened since. From there, they move to the Big Ten Quarterfinals; Michigan is doing its thing and  is Ohio State’s season over? Conversely, Duke is keeping its hopes alive and Notre Dame is tightening its grip on the No. 1 seed. In the Ivy League, Yal...

On the eve of the release of his first e-book "Whistle Ready," TFL's Steve Govett joins IL's Terry Foy to discuss his foray into longform writing. Meant to serve as a guide for those (mostly parents) who volunteer — or are "voluntold" — to coach a youth sports team for the first time. A longtime NLL executive who started coaching as a teenager, Govett's goal is to put readers at ease, helping them...

The episode opens with D‑Fly and Dixie recapping a packed weekend of college lacrosse, highlighting dramatic one‑goal games, strong crowds, and electric atmospheres across the country. They discuss their own on‑site experiences at marquee matchups like Hopkins–Maryland, touch on standout women’s games, and bring in analyst Craig McMichael to break down national trends as the postseason begins. Tog...

They know this is the third week in a row they're saying it, but IL's Terry Foy and Nick Ossello are back to discuss what was probably the best weekend of the college lacrosse season so far. They start with The Rivalry, where Matt Collison and Oran Gelinas combined to power the Blue Jays to a big — but controversial — win over Maryland. They transition to Columbus where Ohio State withstood an ill...

It's the best time of year on the lacrosse calendar — every high school and college team's season has started and (as far as we know) no team's season has ended (and that's tough with teams in Minnesota and New Hampshire starting so late and teams in South Carolina ending so early). So what better time than now for IL's Terry Foy to bring on former Denver coach and 3d Lacrosse founder Jamie Munro...