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DhillDucks set mark no team wants at OWCS NA Stage 3
It may not be the distinction they wanted, but DhillDucks stand alone at the Overwatch Champions Series 2025 -- North America Stage 3.,In falling 3-0 to Team Z on Sunday, DhillDucks are the lone winless team remaining in the event at 0-4.,With the top three teams in the standings all having the day ...

100 Thieves win again, one win from FlyQuest rematch
Only one team stands between 100 Thieves and a rematch with FlyQuest.,Thieves had little trouble with getting by RED Canids on Sunday, winning 3-0 to advance to the lower-bracket final at the League of Legends Championship of The Americas in Allen, Texas.,Thieves will face Keyd Stars in the lower-br...

Geekay Esports, Team Liquid stay unbeaten in OWCS NA Stage 3
Team Liquid beat Spacestation Gaming in a battle of unbeatens on Saturday to improve to 3-0 in Week 3 of the Overwatch Champions Series 2025 -- North America Stage 3.,Geekay Esports also improved to 3-0 with a sweep of NTMR, leaving just two undefeated teams left, while Sakura Esports swept Dhillduc...

Melissa Jefferson-Wooden wins historic double at worlds
Melissa Jefferson-Wooden made history at the 2025 World Athletics Championships at Tokyo on Friday, becoming the first American woman to win both the 100 meters and 200 meters at the event.,Jefferson-Wooden, 24, won the 200 on Friday in 21.68 seconds, the fastest time in the world this year. Her win...

Noah Lyles ties Usain Bolt with 4th straight world 200 gold
Noah Lyles matched Usain Bolt's record with his fourth consecutive world outdoor 200-meter championship on Friday in Tokyo.,The 28-year-old American sprinter finished in 19.52 seconds at the 2025 World Athletics Championships to follow up his gold medals in 2019, 2022 and 2023. Bolt also won the eve...

RED Canids join 100 Thieves as weekend winners at Championship of the Americas
RED Canids were extended to a fifth game before downing Shopify Rebellion 3-2 on Sunday in the lower-bracket quarterfinals of the League of Legends Championship of The Americas in Allen, Texas.,Next up is a meeting with 100 Thieves in the lower-bracket semifinals on Sept. 21. 100 Thieves swept paiN ...

100 Thieves open Championship of The Americas with sweep
100 Thieves took the next step on Saturday in the League of Legends Championship of The Americas with a victory in the lower-bracket quarterfinals in Allen, Texas.,The competition is the season finale for LTA, which also decides which of the region's teams qualify for the world championship starting...

100 Thieves opens Championship of The Americas with sweep
100 Thieves took the next step on Saturday in the League of Legends Championship of The Americas with a victory in the lower-bracket quarterfinals in Allen, Texas.,The competition is the season finale for LTA, which also decides which of the region's teams qualify for the world championship starting...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

Team Tidebound revel in 'joyful victory' at Clavision Masters
Team Tidebound highlighted their sterling performance on Sunday by posting a 3-2 victory over Tundra Esports in the grand final of the Clavision Masters 2025: Snow-Ruyi in Zhangjiakou, China.,Team Tidebound recorded a 2-0 victory over Xtreme Gaming in the lower-bracket final of the Dota2 tournament ...

FlyQuest first team to 2-0 at LTA North Split 3
FlyQuest became the first team to get to 2-0 at the LTA North Split 3 on Saturday, sweeping another opponent in Los Angeles.,In the day's second match, LYON beat Team Liquid to move both teams to 1-1 in group play with one round to go.,The LTA North 2025 Split 3 is the third Americas North League of...

MLB All-Star Game awarded to Cubs in 2027
The Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field will host the 2027 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, commissioner Rob Manfred announced Friday.,Manfred made his announcement at Wrigley Field with Cubs executive chairman Tom Ricketts, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Hall of Fame membe...