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

1. The Premier Lacrosse League gathered headlines outside of the lacrosse world, announcing it will hold its 2020 season as a fully-quarantined, fanless tournament from July 25-August 9 with games covered on the NBC family of networks. The announcement came on the Today show.

Some of the other mainstream outlets covering the announcement:

2. A youth movement that began with Florida’s women’s lacrosse team this season has the Gators excited for 2021.

3. Matt DaSilva breaks down the 2020 Major League Lacrosse Draft and gives high praise to the Denver Outlaws.

4. Takeaways from Paul Carcaterra’s “Overtime” podcast with Team USA, NLL and PLL star Tom Schreiber.

5. Today is the deadline to send a letter to your representatives to support the PLAY Sports initiative.

6. In player transfer news, Ohio State's women's lacrosse team announced that JMU captain Kelsey Reed will join the Buckeyes for 2021 and Inside Lacrosse's Ty Xanders reported that Yale's Lucas Cotler will join teammate Jackson Morrill at Denver for his fifth season.

7. The most amazing thing about this Tweet is trying to imagine John Grant Jr. as 5-foot-5, 130 pounds.

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New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees endeared himself to the lacrosse world, sharing his love of the sport.

#GivingTuesdayNow was a huge success for US Lacrosse with the national lacrosse community contributing over $146,000 to help support the sport. We truly appreciate the support during an incredibly challenging financial crisis for our nonprofit organization.

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