The Premier Lacrosse League, which was founded in 2018 by brothers Mike and Paul Rabil, has raised $100 million in Series E financing.
Mike Rabil, a former Dartmouth football player and veteran entrepreneur, would not disclose the league’s valuation following the latest round, but he said its value has increased since the PLL’s Series D round in 2022. Mike Rabil serves as PLL’s CEO, while Paul Rabil is its president. Paul Rabil was an All-American lacrosse player at Johns Hopkins University and a former star in the PLL and Major League Lacrosse, which the PLL merged with in 2020.
“I believe in building something that outlasts me, and Paul does, as well,” Mike Rabil said. “How do you build a forever brand? If you look at the top four sports leagues, most of them have been around for 100 years-plus. The PLL may be very successful when Paul and I are no longer on this Earth, so we need to think long-term."
Rabil '06 was a 6-foot-2, 275-pound defensive tackle and team captain for Buddy Teevens II. Find his old Dartmouth bio HERE.
Green Alert Take: True story. Interviewing Mike Rabil when he played, I asked about his dreams for the future. He spoke about lofty entrepreneurial goals, and then quietly added he would like some day to be successful enough to settle down and run a small restaurant honoring his Lebanese heritage. I think he'll have that opportunity if he still wants it. ;-)
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Mike Rabil's former football teammate Ryan Danehy '06, has been named offensive coordinator for the Ohio State lacrosse team. From a release out of Columbus (LINK):
A native of Billerica, Mass., Danehy graduated from Dartmouth in 2006. A four-year starter for the Big Green lacrosse team, he posted 84 points (73g-11a), including four (3g-1a) in the program's first NCAA tournament appearance against Syracuse in 2003. He also was a long snapper for the football program.
Danehy was a three-year letterwinner on the gridiron.
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The preseason FCS top 20 from the Sporting News College Football Magazine courtesy of a faithful BGA reader features two Dartmouth opponents:
1. Montana State
2. South Dakota State
3. Montana
4. North Dakota
5. Illinois State
6. Villanova
7. Tarleton State
8. Rhode Island
9. South Dakota
10. UC Davis
11. Youngstown State
12. Lehigh
13. Stephen Austin
14. Yale
15. Tennessee Tech
16. Abilene Christian
17. Southeastern Louisiana
18. Lamar
19. Austin Peay
20. South Carolina State
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An entity called Stacker, which describes itself as "a team of journalists, technologists, and storytellers on a mission to empower the world's publishers and help brands build lasting authority through earned reach," has rated what it calls the 50 best colleges in the US, based on data. The fine print suggests that data includes "academics, admissions, finances, and student life." Your mileage may vary, but Dartmouth people can't complain about being ranked No. 5 in the nation. Find the story HERE.
The Top-10
1 MIT
2 Yale
3 Stanford
4 Harvard
5 Dartmouth
6 Columbia
7 Vanderbilt
8 Princeton
9 Cal Tech
10 Rice
Also . . .
11 Brown
12 Penn
21 Cornell
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Here was the $1,600 Jeopardy clue last night in the category College Towns:
No one even rang in.
