Box lacrosse must advance the ball from their own defensive end to the offensive half of the floor within 10 seconds (8 in NLL). For most penalties, the offending player is sent to the penalty box and his team has to play without him and with one less player for a short amount of time. Most penalties last for two minutes unless a major penalty has been assessed. The team that has taken the penalty is said to be playing shorthanded while the other team is on the power play. A two-minute minor penalty is often called for lesser infractions such as
The Name Game A verse can be created for any name with stress on the first syllable, with "X" as the name and "Y" as the name without the first consonant sound (if it begins with a consonant), as follows: And if the name starts with a "b", "f", or "m", that sound simply is not repeated. For example: "Billy" becomes "Billy Billy "bo-illy""; "Fred" becomes "bonana fanna "fo-red""; "Marsha" becomes "fee fi "mo-arsha"" The song gives no indication of what to do with names where the stress falls on a syllable after the first, like Renee, Maria, or Lebron. The Name Game