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100 Thieves snag berth in LoL World Championships
Frank "Tomo" Lam recorded 11 kills on the clinching map as 100 Thieves beat Cloud9 3-1 on Sunday in the lower-bracket semifinal of the League Championship Series Summer Split playoffs.,The result comes with a major prize. By guaranteeing a spot among the tournament's top three finishers, 100 Thieves...
100 Thieves stay alive in LCS Summer Split playoffs
100 Thieves came from behind to beat Dignitas 3-2 on Friday at the League Championship Series Summer Split playoffs in Los Angeles.,The result sends 100 Thieves to the lower-bracket semifinal, where they will oppose Cloud9 on Sunday.,Dignitas won the first map on red before 100 Thieves responded wit...
Team Liquid reach upper-bracket final in LCS playoffs
Team Liquid swept 100 Thieves 3-0 on Saturday in an upper-bracket semifinal matchup at the League Championship Series Summer Split playoffs in Los Angeles.,Team Liquid will face the winner of Sunday's other semifinal, Cloud 9 vs. FlyQuest, in the upper-bracket final on Aug 31.,Team Liquid won all th...
FaZe win CoD tourney at Esports World Cup
The Atlanta FaZe took down 100 Thieves in the grand final of the Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III event at the Esports World Cup on Sunday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,The FaZe came back from a 2-1 hole in order to win the $600,000 first prize and 1,000 Esports World Cup club points. The runner-up 100 T...
U.S. men disqualifed in 4x100 relay
PARIS -- Canada won the men's Olympic 4x100m relay on Friday after the favored foursome from the United States messed up a changeover and were disqualified.,Andre de Grasse ran a superb last leg to bring the Tokyo silver medalists home in 37.50 seconds for their second gold in the event following th...
US men DQ'd in 4x100 relay
PARIS -- Canada won the men's Olympic 4x100m relay on Friday after the favored foursome from the United States messed up a changeover and were disqualified.,Andre de Grasse ran a superb last leg to bring the Tokyo silver medalists home in 37.50 seconds for their second gold in the event following th...
Sha'Carri Richardson, US sprints to gold in 4x100 relay
PARIS -- The United States won the gold medal in the Olympic women's 4x100 meters relay on Friday, their 12th title in the event ,after Great Britain botched their final exchange.,The U.S. team of Melissa Jefferson, Twanisha Terry, Paris Olympic 200-meter champion Gabby Thomas and Sha'Carri Richards...
Top NFL Players Snubbed From NFL 100 List
The NFL Top 100 list always finds a way to create controversy, but these five players were dramatically snubbed from this year's list....
Noah Lyles rides career roller coaster to Olympic 100-meter gold
PARIS -- Noah Lyles rode through all the highs and lows before reaching the pinnacle of his sport on Sunday, rebounding from career frustrations to win the men's 100 meters final in a classic at the Paris Olympics.,The three-time world champion at 200 meters failed even to qualify for the shorter sp...
Field tightens as LCS Summer Split winds down
With the battle for the top two seeds down to the three teams, the rest of the field is in a dogfight to advance to the League Championship Series Summer Split playoffs. And at no point was that more evident in the event thus far than Saturday's pair of group matches.,Beginning the day within one ga...
Brilliant Cheptegei completes set with 10,000m gold
PARIS -- World record holder Joshua Cheptegei claimed the Olympic 10,000 meters title he so desperately wanted on Friday when he found a late surge to win a fantastic race and take the Games' first track gold.,The 27-year-old Ugandan, who took silver in Tokyo and gold over 5,000m, produced a devasta...
Oregon's Dan Lanning responds to Kirby Smart's NIL barb
Defending Oregon's name, image and likeness program in the wake of recent comments from Georgia coach Kirby Smart, Ducks coach Dan Lanning said it's an "exaggeration" that his program receives significantly more funding than other top-10 teams.,"The reality is, find a top-10 team in college football...
Jasper Philipsen wins Stage 10 at Tour de France
Belgium's Jasper Philipsen sprinted to victory Tuesday to complete Stage 10 of the Tour de France.,The Alpecin-Deceuninck cyclist finished the 187.3-kilometer route from Orleans to Saint-Amand-Montrond just ahead of Eritrea's Biniam Girmay and Germany's Pascal Ackermann.,It was the first stage win o...
It's make or break for the Los Angeles Clippers
Curses run deep. They fester in bloodlines, foundations and scorched Earth and are lamented in prose, lyric and declaration. From Shakespeare to Dostoevsky, curses are a part of the canon of human creativity. After the Boston Red Sox broke theirs in 2004 and LeBron James brought a championship to Cl...
Chris Paul and Dwyane Wade let the No. 3 keep them from teaming up in Miami
When an opportunity comes along in life, sometimes you just throw caution to the wind and go for it. That’s what Chris Paul should have done when he was approached about becoming part of the Heatles in Miami, alongside LeBron James and Dwyane Wade. It never came to pass, though, and all because Paul...
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Antonio Brown won't pay jeweler for finger pieces that he says fuels 'super orgasms' [Update]
Updated March 9: Antonio Brown has been ordered by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to pay Shuki International, the creator of the crystalized finger cover jewelry $1,095,000 because Brown has failed to return the borrowed pieces to their owner....
Julius Peppers, Antonio Gates, and the 15 Finalists for the 2024 Hall of Fame
The nominees for the National Football League’s Hall of Fame have been announced. Fifteen former players are eligible to be immortalized in Canton, Ohio, and the official ballot with five players will be named tonight at the NFL Honors ceremony. Here is a list of all 15 nominees. ...
Kim Mulkey needs to show up for Brittney Griner’s jersey retirement at Baylor
Anyone who dresses the way Kim Mulkey does loves attention. And since the ultra-competitive and always controversial head coach has never shied away from the camera, she might as well show up in Waco next month for a photo-op on Brittney Griner’s big night — even if the two can’t stand each other....
Jim Harbaugh and the HCs that also played for their teams
Jim Harbaugh is returning to the NFL as the next head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. What you might have forgotten is that he played quarterback for the franchise in 1999 and 2000 — back when the Bolts were still in San Diego....
Jordan Love’s best and worst were on display this postseason
No matter how Jordan Love’s season ended, it was an unmitigated success. He put himself in a position to secure a bag from Green Bay this offseason, obliterated the Dallas Cowboys with a 3-touchdown performance in his playoff debut, and was an all-around feel-good story despite the unhappy ending. B...