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This is the 9th season for the Boston Cannons in Major League Lacrosse. The Cannons played in their home games at Harvard Stadium.
| 2009 Boston Cannons Season | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Date & Time | Away Team | Score | Home Team | Score | Game Notes/Scoring Leader | |
| May 16 @ 7 PM | Long Island | 9 | Boston | 8 | - | |
| May 22 @ 7:30 PM | Denver | 15 | Boston | 14 | - | |
| May 30 @ 3 PM | Boston | 16 | Chicago | 14 | - | |
| June 5 @ 7 PM | Boston | 13 | Long Island | 14 | - | |
| June 13 @ 7 PM | Chicago | 11 | Boston | 22 | - | |
| June 19 @ 7:30 PM | Boston | 19 | Washington | 9 | - | |
| June 25 @ 7 PM | Toronto | 15 | Boston | 19 | - | |
| July 4 @ 7 PM | Boston | 17 | Denver | 16 | - | |
| July 9 @ 7 PM | Boston | 10 | Long Island | 11 | - | |
| July 18 @ 7 PM | Chicago | 10 | Boston | 17 | - | |
| July 23 @ 7:30 PM | Boston | 17 | Toronto | 18 | - | |
| August 6 @ 7:30 PM | Washington | 14 | Boston | 13 | - | |
| 2009 Boston Cannons | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Player's Name | Position | Height | Weight | |
| 4 | Bobby Horsey | M | 5-10 | 205 lbs | |
| 13 | Brandon Corp | A | 6-0 | 180 lbs | |
| 23 | Brett Garber | M | 5-11 | 170 lbs | |
| 24 | Chris Eck | M | 6-0 | 200 lbs | |
| 44 | Chris Passavia | D | 6-1 | 210 lbs | |
| 8 | Greg Downing | M | 6-1 | 195 lbs | |
| 18 | Jack Reid | D | 6-3 | 220 lbs | |
| 1 | Johnny Christmas | A | 5-10 | 175 lbs | |
| 30 | John Ortolani | M | 5-8 | 185 lbs | |
| 22 | Justin Smith | M | 5-8 | 165 lbs | |
| 32 | Kevin Cassese | M | 6-0 | 200 lbs | |
| 15 | Kip Turner | G | 6-1 | 179 lbs | |
| 77 | Kyle Sweeney | D | 5-10 | 195 lbs | |
| 3 | Matt Alrich | A | 5-10 | 220 lbs | |
| 26 | Matt Casey | M | 6-0 | 180 lbs | |
| 7 | Matt Poskay | M | 6-0 | 204 lbs | |
| 10 | Mike Levin | G | 6-1 | 185 lbs | |
| 33 | Mike Podgajny | M | 6-0 | 195 lbs | |
| 85 | Mitch Belisle | D | 5-9 | 195 lbs | |
| 2 | Nate Evans | M | 5-11 | 205 lbs | |
| 99 | Paul Rabil | M | 6-3 | 225 lbs | |
| 12 | Ray Megill | D | 6-0 | 200 lbs | |
| 14 | Ryan Boyle | A | 6-1 | 180 lbs | |
| 34 | Ryan McClay | D | 5-9 | 190 lbs | |
| 25 | Sean Morris | A | 6-3 | 190 lbs | |
| 9 | Tom Zummo | M | 6-0 | 185 lbs | |
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The Cannons Lacrosse Club are a professional men's field lacrosse team in the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL). Formerly based in Boston, Massachusetts, they played in Major League Lacrosse (MLL) as the Boston Cannons from their inaugural 2001 season to 2020. The team's home field was Veterans Memorial Stadium in nearby Quincy. In the MLL, the team won two Steinfeld Cup championship games in 2011 and 2020, the latter being the MLL's final championship. The Cannons joined the PLL in 2020 following the MLL–PLL merger and were rebranded as the Cannons Lacrosse Club.
South Boston is a densely populated neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, located south and east of the Fort Point Channel and abutting Dorchester Bay. South Boston, colloquially known as Southie, has undergone several demographic transformations since being annexed to the city of Boston in 1804. The neighborhood, once primarily farmland, is popularly known by its twentieth century identity as a working class Irish Catholic community. Throughout the twenty-first century, the neighborhood has become increasingly popular with millennial professionals.
Frederick Anthony Picariello, Jr., better known by his stage name Freddy Cannon, is an American rock and roll singer, whose biggest international hits included "Tallahassee Lassie", "Way Down Yonder in New Orleans", and "Palisades Park".
"Pickman's Model" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in September 1926 and first published in the October 1927 issue of Weird Tales.
The Fortification of Dorchester Heights was a decisive action early in the American Revolutionary War that precipitated the end of the siege of Boston and the withdrawal of British troops from that city.
"The Picture in the House" is a short story written by H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on December 12, 1920, and first published in the July issue of The National Amateur—which was published in the summer of 1921. It was reprinted in Weird Tales in 1923 and again in 1937.
The 1960 National Football League Draft in which NFL teams take turns selecting amateur college American football players and other first-time eligible players, was held at the Warwick Hotel in Philadelphia on November 30, 1959. Many players, including half of those drafted in the first round, signed with teams in the newly created American Football League, including the first overall pick and Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon. At the time of the draft, the Cardinals were still the Chicago Cardinals; they moved to St. Louis in March 1960. The Dallas Cowboys were enfranchised in January 1960 after the draft.
Bradford Cannon, the son of Dr. Walter Bradford Cannon, was a pioneer in the field of reconstructive surgery, specialising in burn victims. He was the first chief of plastic and reconstructive surgery at Massachusetts General Hospital and is credited with saving the lives of thousands of soldiers maimed during World War II. As a young doctor, he used a new method he developed with Oliver Cope to treat survivors of the Cocoanut Grove fire in November, 1942.
This is the 8th season that the Eastern Conference team called the Boston Cannons play in their home games at Harvard Stadium. They were selected on host the 8th annual Major League Lacrosse Steinfeld Cup championship weekend at Harvard Stadium on August 23 to August 24. The opening game of the season is at home against New Jersey Pride.
Davis v. Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 167 U.S. 43 (1897), was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States sustained a conviction of a man for making a speech on Boston Common in violation of an ordinance that forbade the making of a public address there without a permit from the mayor.
The noble train of artillery, also known as the Knox Expedition, was an expedition led by Continental Army Colonel Henry Knox to transport heavy weaponry that had been captured at Fort Ticonderoga to the Continental Army camps outside Boston during the winter of 1775–76.
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Marcus Darell Cannon is an American football offensive tackle for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). Prior to the 2011 NFL Draft, Cannon was considered one of the top offensive tackle prospects and was selected by the New England Patriots in the fifth round with the 138th pick of the draft. He played college football at TCU.
"The Warning" is a hip hop diss song written and performed by American rapper Eminem and produced by Dr. Dre as part of an ongoing conflict with singer Mariah Carey. Throughout his career, Eminem has claimed he once had a relationship with Carey, dating her for six months. Carey, however, always denied the claim. As a result, Eminem recorded a number of songs in which he rapped about the singer in a negative light, angered by her not admitting to seeing him.
James Barrett was an American colonel in the Concord, Massachusetts militia during the Battles of Lexington and Concord that began the American Revolutionary War. His farm was the storage site of all the town of Concord's militia gunpowder, weapons and two pairs of prized bronze cannons, according to secret British intelligence.
The 1994 Carquest Bowl was a college football postseason bowl game between the Boston College Eagles and the Virginia Cavaliers. This was the first year of sponsorship by Carquest, which continued until 1997.
The 2017 Boston Cannons season was the seventeenth season for the Boston Cannons of Major League Lacrosse. The Cannons came in trying to improve upon their 8-6 record in 2016. Although they were one of seven teams tied upon the top of the standings with an 8-6 record, the Cannons were one of three teams not given a playoff berth following tiebreaker procedures.
Gerri Cannon is an American politician, who was elected in 2018 to the New Hampshire House of Representatives. She represents the Strafford 18th District as a member of the Democratic Party. She was previously elected to the Somersworth, New Hampshire School Board.
Massachusetts House of Representatives' 11th Hampden district in the United States is one of 160 legislative districts included in the lower house of the Massachusetts General Court. It covers part of the city of Springfield in Hampden County. Democrat Bud Williams of Springfield has represented the district since 2017. Candidates running for this district seat in the 2020 Massachusetts general election include Republican Prince Golphin Jr.
The 1976 Holy Cross Crusaders football team was an American football team that represented the College of the Holy Cross as an independent during the 1976 NCAA Division I football season. Neil Wheelwright joined the team for his first year as head coach. The team compiled a record of 3–8.