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Team Vitality, G2 Esports are BLAST Open Fall finalists
Team Vitality and G2 Esports advanced to the grand final with sweeps in the semifinals on Saturday at the BLAST Open Fall in London.,The opponents were set for Sunday's championship after Team Vitality knocked off MOUZ 2-0, and G2 Esports did the same to FURIA.,The six-team, $330,000 Counter-Strike:...
Cal Ripken Jr. honored on 30-year anniversary of consecutive games record
Saturday night in Baltimore, Cal Ripken Jr. and the Orioles celebrated the 30th anniversary of his breaking the Major League Baseball record for consecutive games played with his 2,131st appearance, now known as the "2-1-3-1" record.,The Hall of Fame shortstop and third baseman, now 65, was honored ...
MOUZ, G2 charge into BLAST Open Fall semifinals
MOUZ pulled out a 2-1 win over M80 to advance to the semifinals of the BLAST Open Fall on Friday in London.,G2 Esports also prevailed on the opening day of the event, defeating FaZe Clan 2-0 in a quarterfinal match.,The six-team, $330,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offensive tournament features a single...
AFC West Primer: New season, same Chiefs
A one-game margin separated the eventual Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos from the Chiefs the last time Kansas City failed to finish a season first in the AFC West. ,That Peyton Manning-led outfit ruled the roost with 12 wins in the regular season, and then Kansas City began its current nine-year ...
Ohio State moves to No. 1, rest of Top 25 in chaos in poll
Ohio State's season-opening victory over Texas sent the Buckeyes to No. 1 and the Longhorns plummeting in the Associated Press Top 25 poll, released Tuesday.,Ranked No. 3 in the preseason poll, Ohio State received 55 of the 66 first-place votes. Texas, No. 1 last week, fell to No. 7.,Losses by Clems...
Michael Jordan expresses defiance during, after NASCAR court hearing
A court hearing for the federal antitrust lawsuit among two racing teams and NASCAR had its share of fireworks on Thursday in Charlotte, with retired NBA Hall of Famer (and racing co-owner) Michael Jordan drawing attention in particular for his comments.,Jordan, a co-owner of 23XI Racing team who, a...
Fake-punt TD helps USF cruise past No. 25 Boise State
Locklan Hewlett threw a touchdown pass to Keshaun Singleton on a fake punt to help South Florida notch a convincing 34-7 season-opening rout over No. 25 Boise State on Thursday night at Tampa.,The stunning trick play gave the Bulls a 10-point lead in the middle of the third quarter and was part of 3...
Pac-12 adds new CW deal for football, basketball
The rebuilding Pac-12 has signed a multiyear broadcast deal with The CW through the 2030-31 season.,The deal announced with The CW on Wednesday calls for the network to broadcast 66 events in the 2026-27 season: 13 regular-season football games, 35 regular-season men's basketball games, 15 regular-s...
NASCAR plans to sell charter tied to 23XI Racing, FRM lawsuit
NASCAR appears ready to transfer ownership of one of the charters held by 23XI Racing and Front Row Motorsports, who lost their charters following their antitrust lawsuit against NASCAR.,As part of ongoing litigation requirements, NASCAR's Sanctioning Body filed a legal notice that it plans to issue...
Team Falcons win FISSURE Universe title out of lower bracket
Team Falcons swept Team Spirit in the best-of-five grand final at FISSURE Universe: Episode 6 on Sunday.,After Team Falcons started the day with a 2-0 win over Team Liquid in the lower-bracket final, it finished a perfect day against previously unbeaten Team Spirit, who had gone 4-0-0 in the group s...
Disguised eliminates Dignitas at LTA North Split 3
In its fifth week of competition, the League of Legends Championship of The Americas North Split 3 in Los Angeles finally sent a team home.,In the first lower bracket Round 1 match on Saturday, Disguised took down Dignitas 3-1, advancing to the lower bracket quarterfinals and dropping Dignitas into ...
'Happy Gilmore 2' continues to smash Netflix streaming records
Nearly 30 years later, the "Happy Gilmore" sequel seems to be bringing just that -- happiness -- to viewers in droves, with the Adam Sandler golf comedy setting a new record for the most single-week viewing minutes on a streaming platform.,Nielsen streaming data shows that viewers spent 2.9 billion ...
College football hot seat: Auburn, Florida State already sizzling
College football coaches were afforded a recruiting class's full cycle of four years to prove their value, barring major malfeasance, not all that long ago. ,Those days are long gone.,In today's ecosystem, when freshman signees rarely stay at the same program for four years and what was once conside...
SEC Primer: If league depth derails No. 1 Texas, can Georgia rise again?
In this era of bloated conference sizes, none of the other leagues can compete with the depth of the Southeastern Conference.,The SEC has the No. 1 preseason ranked team in Texas and four total teams in the Top 10 as well as six other teams landing a spot in the Top 25.,That's 10 teams in a 16-team ...
ACC Primer: Can Miami -- or Georgia Tech -- catch Clemson?
It wasn't that long ago that the Atlantic Coast Conference was winning national titles at as high a rate as any conference.,Between 2013 and 2018, the ACC won three national championships (Florida State in 2013, Clemson in 2016 and 2018), more than any other conference over that span.,In the six yea...
NASCAR adds Chicagoland event as 2026 schedule shuffled
A return to the Chicagoland Speedway, a street race in San Diego and a change to championship weekend highlight the 2026 NASCAR schedule, released Wednesday.,Also to be noted are the shift of the All-Star Race to Dover Motor Speedway, as well as schedule adjustments that move annual races to non-tra...
Big 12 Football at a Crossroads: How Week 0 Could Shape the Conference’s Future
The Big 12 kicks off college football with Iowa State vs. Kansas State in Ireland. Can the league avoid the Pac-12’s fate and reassert itself nationally?...
Report: Unrivaled salaries to rise; 90 percent of '26 rosters set
The Unrivaled women's basketball league has already signed nearly 90 percent of its player pool ahead of its second season in 2026.,"We have a few spots left open to fill and then we're pretty much ready to go," Unrivaled co-founder Alex Bazzell recently confirmed to Front Office Sports.,With the 3-...
Cloud9, Shopify stay perfect in LTA North Split 3
Cloud9 and Shopify Rebellion each logged a second consecutive win on Sunday as the Split 3 in the League of Legends Championship of The Americas North concluded Week 2 in Los Angeles.,Cloud9 swept Dignitas 2-0 before Shopify Rebellion rallied past Disguised 2-1.,Through two weeks, FlyQuest, Cloud9 a...
Yangon Galacticos makes most of opportunity at PUBG Mobile World Cup
Yangon Galacticos completed an impressive run to the PUBG Mobile World Cup title on Sunday after being the last survival stage team to qualify for the three-day grand finals in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.,The offline tournament was the mid-season international event of the 2025 PUBG Mobile competitive sea...