One of the oldest of its kind in America, Lacrosse is a team sport with a Native American origin. It is played using a small solid rubber ball and Lacrosse Stick or a Crosse – a racquet with a long handle, the head of which is strung with a loose mesh to hold the ball.
The basic play of the game is that the offense has to hurl the rubber ball into the opponent’s goal and the defense has to evade this situation. There are three types of Lacrosse played internationally – Field Lacrosse, Box Lacrosse and Women’s Lacrosse.
Occasionally known as the “fastest sport on two feet”, Field Lacrosse is an outdoor men’s sport. This full contact sport is played with ten players on each team. The rules of this form of lacrosse are significantly different from the other two. It is played professionally by Major League Lacrosse also widely known as MLL or MLL Lacrosse.
MLL Lacrosse was founded in 1999 by Jake Steinfeld, Dave Morrow and Tim Robertson. Anyhow it started its regular season play in 2001. In the present day, it comprises of one team in Canada and five teams in the United States. From 2001 till 2005, MLL was divided into two divisions – The American Division and the National Division. It further expanded to form the MLL Western Conference that began playing since the 2006.