mstriebel's blog entries
Matt
Striebel
| Mar 18 2011 - 4:57pm
Ice Bath Time. Wrap a towel around your head, bite your lip…it’s cold in here.
First a little background: I spent last weekend doing a number of clinics. At one of the clinics, a first time coach came up to me and said: “This is my first time being involved with lacrosse. I’m a football guy by trade, I don’t know anything about this sport, but I love it.” I...
Matt
Striebel
| Feb 27 2011 - 6:46pm
We took a week off the Ice Bath, but we’re back for our end of the month cleanse. As always, it’s best to get in quick. Here are some thoughts from past two weeks (put forth in ultra-lazy list form):
1) Bieber can ball. Not a huge fan (sorry Belisle), but the dude held his own in the celebrity All-Star game. Good handles. Dropped a few dimes. Shoots from the hip like every other...
Matt
Striebel
| Feb 11 2011 - 9:25pm
Friday. Ice bath time. Out of the frying pan into the…
Yeah, or something like that. Getting off the plane from my vacation in Mexico last Thursday night at midnight, I came to the stark and sudden realization that I’m definitely not in Kansas anymore (if Kansas were Cabo San Lucas, Mexico that is). Three degrees. Yup, three. You gotta love New England in February, where spring...
Matt
Striebel
| Feb 4 2011 - 3:00pm
The Ice Bath: Lax History 101
Must be Friday. Welcome to the Ice Bath: it’s best to get in quick…
So I was watching Dirty Rotten Scoundrels last week at the Champions Challenge in Orlando, Florida. Kevin Levellie and I were roommates, and Kevin, aside from being the best pure American finisher maybe ever, is also something of a reliable cultural attaché. Music, movies, TV...
Matt
Striebel
| Jan 25 2011 - 12:08am
You spend as much time around the sport of lacrosse as I have, you get to spend a lot of time in locker rooms. There’ve definitely been some cool ones along the way. Raven’s Stadium, for example, and Invesco Field to name another. Or the Dallas Cowboys Locker room, and Tony Romo’s locker in particular (both of which were surprisingly unimpressive). Then, of course, there was...
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