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The MongolZ win Thunderpick World Championship title
The MongolZ broke away from HEROIC for a 3-1 victory on Sunday in the grand final of the Thunderpick World Championship in Berlin.,The MongolZ won the final two maps after a 1-1 tie to clinch first place and the $500,000 grand prize. HEROIC settled for second place and a $150,000 prize.,The MongolZ ...
The MongolZ, HEROIC land in grand final at Thunderpick World Championship
The MongolZ and HEROIC completed 2-0 sweeps on Saturday in the semifinals of the Thunderpick World Championship in Berlin. ,With the victories, the teams will meet in the tournament's grand final on Sunday. The winner will take home $500,000, and the runner-up will walk away with $150,000. ,After op...
HEROIC among four teams in semis at Thunderpick World Championship
HEROIC pulled off a 2-0 sweep of Fnatic on Saturday, joining three other teams that also advanced to the semifinals at the Thunderpick World Championship in Berlin.,By 2-1 scores, 3DMAX downed BESTIA, The MongolZ defeated Imperial Esports and OG topped BIG.,The $850,000 Counter-Strike: Global Offens...
BESTIA bounce back, move on at Thunderpick World Championship
BESTIA shook off a triple-overtime map loss to beat M80 2-1 on Friday and earn a quarterfinal berth at the Thunderpick World Championship in Berlin.,The last playoff positions were settled on Friday as all four groups played their decider matches. BESTIA rallied past M80 in D, and Fnatic edged Cloud...
BIG charge into Thunderpick World Championship playoffs
BIG swept two opponents on Thursday to win Group D at the Thunderpick World Championship in Berlin and secure a quarterfinal bid.,After downing Aurora Gaming 2-0, BIG prevailed by the same score against BESTIA.,In the other Group D opening-round match, BESTIA smashed M80 2-0. M80 rebounded in the gr...
HEROIC book playoff spot at Thunderpick World Championship
HEROIC earned consecutive victories on Wednesday to finish atop Group C and claim a quarterfinal berth at the Thunderpick World Championship in Berlin.,Following a 2-1 victory over Legacy, HEROIC thrashed Ninjas in Pyjamas 2-0 to advance.,In the other opening-round Group C match, Ninjas in Pyjamas d...
MongolZ roll into Thunderpick World Championship playoffs
The MongolZ cruised to a pair of 2-0 wins on Tuesday and captured first place in Group B at the Thunderpick World Championship in Berlin, sealing a berth in the quarterfinals.,After downing Cloud9, The MongolZ got past Fnatic, which had rallied past 9z Team 2-1 earlier in the day. In the Group B eli...
3DMAX first team into Thunderpick World Championship quarters
3DMAX swept through its two matches on Monday and became the first team to advance to the quarterfinals of the Thunderpick World Championship in Berlin.,After beating Team Falcons 13-10 on Anubis and 13-9 on Nuke, 3DMAX took down OG in the Group A winners match 13-10 on Ancient and 13-11 on Inferno....
NCAA-ESPN's new broadcast deal is great for women's sports
The NCAA and ESPN agreed to an eight-year, $115 million annual deal to broadcast 40 different championships including the women’s college basketball tournament....
Florida is predictably Florida in banning transgender athlete
A high school in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. has banned a transgender girl from playing on its girls’ volleyball team for 11 months due to “the Fairness in Women’s Sports Act,” which states that transgender women and girls can not compete on girls’ public school sports teams. ...
Trans women are not destroying women’s sports
The policies to determine someone’s “biological sex” are getting weirder and weirder — not to mention illogical. Just this month Florida tried to institute a policy to track the period data of female students, only dropping the idea after severe backlash. There are many reasons a cis girl might not ...
USWNT finally gets paid
Today is the first day that the US men and the US women’s soccer teams will earn the same wages for performance on the field. The US women’s team has won four World Cup gold medals and four Olympic medals. In 1930, the US men had their best result in World Cup play, finishing third. ...
Delaware State’s women’s lacrosse team bus being searched for drugs by police in Georgia isn’t surprising — this is America
A story about a women’s lacrosse team from an HBCU has become national news because America wants to keep acting like police officers who abuse their power to mistreat Black people is an outlier and not the norm....
Lia Thomas wins right to compete at NCAA Championships
Since University of Pennsylvania senior Lia Thomas crushed her competition at the Zippy Invitational with the nation’s fastest times in the 200- and 500-yard freestyle, she became a cause célèbre in the crosshairs of the NCAA’s latest transgender athletes brouhaha....
U.S. Soccer offers equal pay to USMNT and USWNT... <i>kinda?</i>
It’s been one of the longer lasting sagas in American sports, as the U.S. Women’s National team seeks either a new contract or a resolution to their lawsuit against U.S. Soccer that sees them make huge gains in pay for representing their country. U.S. Soccer would have you believe that it’s recently...
The USWNT’s fight for equal pay is still kind of nebulous
Yesterday, Megan Rapinoe and Margaret Purce met with President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden. Afterward, both Rapinoe and Purce met with the press. As always, Rapinoe was forthright, cutting, insightful, and funny. None of what comes next is to argue against Rapinoe being anything less than a ...
Laws requiring genital examinations for transgender youth have no place in sports or society
The conversation around transgender girls competing in sports is growing every day....
Deadspin Presents the most overpaid & underpaid coaches in college football: Vol. 2, The Nice Price Guys
Earlier this week USA Today released its comprehensive list of college football coaches ‘ salaries for this season. ...
Let's Remember Some Guys: NFL Pro Set Shoulder Pad Guys
Yes yes, pack full of old football cards, some pair of bespectacled doofuses sitting in pastel chairs and talking about them—I believe by this point in the Let’s Remember Some Guys experience we all understand each other on this matter. When I sat down with Deadspin’s resident NFL expert and Yinzer ...
Let’s Remember Some Guys: 1990 Football Guys
Football in 2018 is sleek. It is about scoring and speed. The players do not want to be encumbered by extraneous protective equipment. Shoulder pads have gotten smaller and smaller, and the frontier is being pushed every day. Michael Bennett wears kicker shoulder pads....