How many players receive Lacrosse Scholarships? 1 in a 1000. There are 54 Division 1 and 30 Division 2 colleges that offer lacrosse scholarships for men. That's a total of 1,009, or only 250 per year. A VERY small number of scholarships are full-ride like scholarships in football or basketball. College lacrosse coaches distribute their allocation among a larger number of players.
Based on the format of a poetry slam, a science slam is a competition that allows knowledge holders, including researchers, students, educators, professionals, and artists to share their science with a general audience.
Slam dunk is a sports metaphor exactly as the previous responses explain. However, In this case there is additional context that gives this particular usage additional meaning. When President George W. Bush was considering the invasion of Iraq, he asked his subordinates how certain they were that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.