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

1. Major League Lacrosse players and coaches are applauding the league’s announcement that team owners unanimously voted to increase the salary cap, expand the schedule and add a player to the game-day active roster. The changes went into effect immediately. Several players signed extensions with MLL teams Monday.

2. James Madison coach Shelley Klaes-Bawcombe, who led the Dukes to their first NCAA women’s lacrosse championship in May, was cited for “public swearing or intoxication” in the early morning hours Saturday, according to a report by The Breeze, JMU’s student newspaper. The Dukes celebrated their Cinderella run to the title and received their championship rings the next day.

“Even though I was celebrating a National Championship with friends, it is my responsibility to set the tone for our program, and I fell short of that responsibility with my behavior,” Klaes-Bawcombe said in a statement obtained by The Breeze.

JMU athletic director Jeff Bourne told the newspaper in a statement that the university is aware of the incident. “We are addressing the issue,” he said.

Klaes-Bawcombe signed a four-year contract extension earlier this month. James Madison is scheduled to play the U.S. national team Oct. 6 in the Team USA Fall Classic at US Lacrosse in Sparks, Md.

3. John Danowski, who led Duke to the NCAA championship game and Team USA to a gold medal in the FIL World Championship this year, will be a featured speaker at the US Lacrosse Convention in January. Danowski called coaching the U.S. team “one of the most rewarding experiences of my career,” adding that he “developed considerably professionally and personally on that journey to the world championship.”

WHAT WE’RE READING

  • How Dave Morrow shattered doubts to rise to the top of the lacrosse industry.

  • How to massage your back with a lacrosse ball. Thanks, Men’s Journal.

  • US Lacrosse is requiring (at no additional cost) all coach members to complete a national background screening and online training through NCSI and the U.S. Center for SafeSport, respectively, as safeguards against abuse or misconduct.

  • Vancouver Warriors? The Canucks-owned NLL franchise is poised to unveil its new name.

WHAT WE’RE WATCHING

Who knew Chesapeake Bayhawks midfielder Nick Manis had such good dance moves?

Boycott Dr. Pepper.

WHAT’S ON TAP

  • A profile on National Lacrosse Hall of Fame inductee Alex Kahoe.

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