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Team Falcons runs table in lower bracket to win FISSURE Playground 2
Team Falcons completed a run through the lower bracket and took down BetBoom Team 3-1 in the grand final of the FISSURE Playground 2 event Sunday in Belgrade, Serbia.,Team Falcons secured a $300,000 first prize along with an additional $50,000 club reward for winning the $1 million Dota 2 event. Bet...

BetBoom Team awaits foe in grand final of FISSURE Playground 2 event
BestBoom Team beat Team Yandex on Saturday to advance to the grand final of the FISSURE Playground 2 event in Belgrade, Serbia.,Team Yandex could get another shot as they face Team Falcons in the lower-bracket final earlier Sunday before the best-of-five grand final. Team Falcons advanced on Saturda...

Team Falcons stay alive in FISSURE Playground 2 event
Don't give up Team Falcons quite yet.,The top-seeded team coming out of group play, which then opened the playoffs with a 2-0 loss, bounced back with a pair of wins on Friday, advancing to the lower bracket semifinal of the FISSURE Playground 2 event in Belgrade, Serbia.,Team Liquid got the win in F...

Candace Parker, Elena Delle Donne, Doris Burke in '26 Women's HOF class
Candace Parker and Elena Delle Donne lead the 2026 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame class revealed on Thursday.,WNBA and Team USA coach Cheryl Reeve, ESPN basketball analyst Doris Burke and international basketball legends Isabelle Fijalkowski of France and Amaya Valdemoro of Spain are also to be ind...

New blood: Blueblood Duke banks on blue-chip freshmen again
DURHAM, N.C. -- Talk about Duke's freshmen is nothing new, and this season the theme has an even more familiar ring to it.,Headlining the 2025-26 Blue Devils' crop of blue-chip freshmen is Cameron Boozer, who'll entice television viewers and NBA observers to tune in.,This isn't a repeat of a season ...

Wish Grant-ed: Gonzaga fueled by 25-year-old transfer
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Gonzaga has won 742 games on the court in coach Mark Few's 26 seasons.,Put the Bulldogs down for a victory in court.,Forward Tyon Grant-Foster was granted a preliminary injunction Monday by Spokane County (Wash.) Judge Marla Polin, making him eligible to play for the 21st-ranked Bu...

Yandex, BetBoom advance to FISSURE Playground 2 upper-bracket final
Team Yandex and BetBoom Team clinched top-three spots and advanced to the upper-bracket final of the FISSURE Playground 2 event with wins on Wednesday in Belgrade, Serbia.,Team Yandex rallied for a 2-1 win over MOUZ while BetBoom Team handed Team Spirit its first loss of the tournament, also 2-1, in...

NASCAR's counterclaim vs. Front Row, 23XI dismissed
NASCAR took a legal setback Tuesday when its counterclaim against 23XI Racing, Front Row Motorsports and 23XI Racing co-owner Curtis Polk in an antitrust lawsuit was dismissed.,U.S. Judge Kenneth D. Bell of the Western District of North Carolina made the ruling, writing, "NASCAR's evidence fails to ...

Yandex, MOUZ, Spirit, BetBoom reach FISSURE Playground 2 semis
Team Yandex, MOUZ, Team Spirit and BetBoom Team opened the playoffs with victories in the upper-bracket quarterfinal round of the FISSURE Playground 2 event on Tuesday in Belgrade, Serbia.,Team Yandex rallied past Tundra Esports 2-1, MOUZ swept Team Falcons 2-0, Team Spirit blanked HEROIC 2-0 and Be...

PGA Tour Champions releases '26 slate with $69M in purses
Two new tournaments highlight the 28-event PGA Tour Champions 2026 schedule that features a record-setting purse total.,The Portugal Invitational in Algarve (week of July 27-Aug. 2), and the Jefferson Lehigh Valley Classic in Allentown, Pa., (Sept. 28-Oct. 4) are the new additions to the schedule. T...

Gen.G jolt Hanwha Life, advance to semis at World Championship
Gen.G Esports recorded a 3-1 win over Hanwha Life Esports on Tuesday to punch their ticket to the Knockout Stage semifinals of the $5 million League of Legends 2025 World Championship in Beijing.,Gen.G bolted to a fast start with a 33-minute victory on blue and a 59-minute triumph on red. HLE counte...

Playoffs set for FISSURE Playground 2 event
Team Liquid, HEROIC and MOUZ clinched the final three playoff spots of the FISSURE Playground 2 event with wins Monday in Belgrade, Serbia.,The three teams beat PARIVISION, Vici Gaming and Aurora Gaming, respectively, in matchups of the six teams with 2-2 records after the first four rounds of the g...

Team Liquid unblemished in capturing OWCS NA Stage 3 crown
Team Liquid defeated Spacestation Gaming in the grand final on Sunday to complete a perfect run through the Overwatch Champions Series 2025 -- North America Stage 3.,After going 7-0 in the regular season and advancing through the upper-bracket semifinals and final, Team Liquid had to battle before d...

Team Liquid continues perfect run through OWCS NA Stage 3
Team Liquid is one win away from completing a perfect run through the Overwatch Champions Series 2025 -- North America Stage 3.,Liquid held off a stubborn Geekay Esports squad in the upper-bracket final on Saturday, winning 3-1 and advancing to Sunday's grand final.,Up next will be the winner of Sun...

UFC 321: Tom Aspinall-Ciryl Gane ends in no-contest
Tom Aspinall's first UFC heavyweight title defense did not go according to plan, as an anticlimactic ending saw Ciryl Gane accidentally poke both of Aspinall's eyes (15-3-1 MMA) at 4:35 of Round 1.,The fight was ruled a no-contest, likely setting up a rematch between the pair. The UFC has yet to dec...

CTBC Flying Oyster, two others, reach KO stage at Worlds
CTBC Flying Oyster, T1 and Top Esports recorded victories on Saturday to advance to the Knockout Stage at the $5 million League of Legends 2025 World Championship in Beijing.,Competing in best-of-three Round 5 matches in the Swiss Stage, CTBC Flying Oyster and T1 swept FlyQuest and KOI, respectively...

Islanders set to host 2027 All-Star Weekend
The New York Islanders will host the 2027 NHL All-Star Weekend at UBS Arena in Elmont, N.Y., the league announced on Friday.,The move comes on the heels of the NHL canceling the Olympic send-off event that was set for the UBS Arena in February.,The Islanders previously were awarded the 2026 All-Star...

Tom Aspinall attempts to tune out noise entering UFC 321
The UFC returns to Abu Dhabi for a championship doubleheader Saturday to headline UFC 321. In the main event, Tom Aspinall makes the first defense of his UFC heavyweight title against former interim champion Ciryl Gane.,Aspinall (15-3 MMA) was promoted to undisputed UFC heavyweight champion this sum...

Major League Soccer announces 2025 award finalists
Major League Soccer announced the finalists for its 2025 year-end awards on Thursday.,Inter Miami's Lionel Messi, who won last year's Landon Donovan MLS MVP and whose three-year contract extension through 2028 was announced Thursday, is one of five finalists for the award again along with Denis Boua...

Merab Dvalishvili to make 4th title defense vs. Petr Yan at UFC 323
UFC bantamweight champion Merab Dvalishvili will make his fourth title defense with a rematch against No. 2-ranked Petr Yan in the main event of UFC 323 in Las Vegas on Dec. 6, the promotion announced.,UFC CEO Dana White first announced the matchup last week.,The pair last fought in March 2023 at UF...