Episode 15: The Fastest Game on Two Feet
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The sport of Lacrosse has its roots firmly planted in the North East United States former land of the Iroquois nation, creators of the original game. Although still very much a niche sport it has a professional league and according to the National Federation of High School Sports (NFHS) boasts to be one of the fastest growing games in America. For this illuminating episode Grandstand travels to Saudi Arabia to speak to Tanner Titanium about his sport of choice, Lacrosse, and his prognostication on whether his game can become one the Big-4 of USA sports. Join us on this voyage of athletic illumination to better get to know a game invented by Native Americans, played mostly by White Americans, hoping to appeal to Black Americans, explained to us by an expat American in Saudi Arabia.
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