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  Author's Note:  As we hit our stride with the summer club circuit I am looking forward to the Prospects Lacrosse event in Vero on Wednesday and Thursday for a couple of reasons.We didn't get closure for the high schools, players, coaches and parents this year and this event, while not 'official', at least gives the 2020 kids playing one last go around, and for many of them, it will be their last game played.  The Boys are playing this week and the Girls will have their own event later in Palm Coast.And this event will be livestreamed for the championship games, in all 3 divisions of 1A, 2A and another grouping for 'schools' that prefer to be grouped by strength of program with like-level teams.  Here's the last poll FLN did before the season was cancelled:&nbs...

 Yeah, it was REALLY hot and humid yesterday in Vero.I moved down here from New York in early 1991.  Of course, the first question from my NY friends was always 'how do you stand the summers?'.  Of the estimated 10 million NY born and raised who moved here the last number of years know, the simple answer is, 'it beats Manhattan in the summertime', and it really does.  No high-rise concrete, glass and steel corridors that multiply heat exponentially.  No smelly sewage grates down here.  No horrendously ventilated subway stations either.As far as I know, Boca Raton has NEVER had a 100 degree day, and I remember plenty of days living in Manhattan, having to take the subway in a suit (for the kids today, that was a matching pants and jacket, a button down oxford shirt, actuall...