Someone is looking over professional lacrosse, and He carried it through Tuesday's terrorist attacks which destroyed the World Trade Center.

NLL officials confirmed to the Buffalo News on Friday that no NLL players or executives were injured in the attacks.

Major League Lacrosse, the outdoor field league which began play this summer, had already announced that none of its own were injured on Tuesday.

"We were very shaken up, like everybody else in America, but nobody was hurt and that's certainly the best news of all," NLL Commissioner Jim Jennings said. "We're all very thankful."

"No one from our office had any regular business at the Trade Center," NLL director of public relations Doug Fritts added, "but still, it's miraculous that no one from our league happened to be there."

The league's offices, relocated this summer to Manhattan from northern New Jersey, are about forty blocks -- two or three miles -- from where the World Trade Centers stood.

Due to the distance, the NLL's offices were unharmed. In fact, says Fritts, the sound of impact couldn't even be heard from 1212 Avenue of the Americas.

"That gives you a real sense of how big this city is," he said.

Although Fritts and four other employees reached the league offices prior to the 8:45 AM hit on the WTC, Jennings did not. The commissioner lives in Blairstown, NJ, so far west of New York City that he practically lives in Pennsylvania. Because of that, his commute to work is sixty miles each way and he hadn't reached the Lincoln Tunnel when it was closed to inbound traffic.

"There were anxious moments," Jennings said. "The phone system went down and it took me a while to reach Doug [Fritts] on my cell phone. When I did at around 9:30, he told me everybody was fine. I told him to close the office."

Shutting down headquarters was no challenge, but it left the employees with nowhere to go. Most of them live in New Jersey, and couldn't catch a train out of Manhattan until evening.

Fritts went to Times Square and watched the story unfold on the big screen televisions there.

Director of Officials Ron Wicks, who flies in weekly from Brampton, Ontario, had to rent a car to return home. He got back to Ontario safely.

Closed Tuesday and Wednesday, the league offices reopened Thursday and are slowly increasing to full speed.