Woman's Lacrosse

I hate to be one of those ignorant (pronounced ig-nant) people who watch a sport they don't know and make snarky comments about it. I am particularly sensitive to this given that I've played soccer all my life and have listened to dumbasses try to make fun of the sport. (although I'll admit the Simpsons episode with two cartoons kicking the ball back and forth overlayed by a hysterical spanish announcer was hilarious).

Today, while running around the USC track, there was a woman's lacrosse game. From what I could tell, you were allowed to have the ball in your stick/net contraption and either run down the field and try to score or pass the ball to a teammate. The defense didn't seem to have any way of stopping anyone.

So a girl would get the ball on one end of the field, some girls would stick their sticks in front of her, so she couldn't pass, and she would run around them if she was athletic enough, and maybe pass it if she got tired. Anytime a girl had open space, she could run down the entire field, dodge people, and either get a shot on goal or pass it.

It just seemed liked a weird game, where it was awfully hard to defend against anyone just running towards the goal and scoring. There seemed to be little incentive to pass, and therefore, wasn't much teamwork. It was sort of like watching a bunch of Kobe Bryant's playing bball. Dribble up the court, shoot. Boring.

I'd love an explanation of this sport as I hear lacrosse chicks are hot and I've been dying to the term: lacrostitute.