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Penn State, UMBC meet in clash between veteran-laden squads
Penn State and UMBC each might have a luxury that other teams around the country don't as they prepare for Friday's game in University Park, Pa.,In an age of rapid roster turnover, each team has plenty of continuity and returning experience.,After having an entirely new team going into last year, Pe...

100 Thieves, paIN Gaming stay alive at Worlds
100 Thieves and paIN Gaming swept their elimination matches Saturday to stay alive at the 2024 League of Legends World Championship in Berlin.,100 Thieves posted 32- and 25-minute wins on red against Fukuoka HAWKS gaming and paIN Gaming registered a 33-minute win on blue and a 35-minute victory on r...

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...

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...

OpTic Texas dominates to open CDL Championship Weekend
Home turf proved to be an advantage Thursday as the Call of Duty League's Championship Weekend kicked off in Allen, Texas.,Playing in the final of four games on Thursday, OpTic Texas swept the LA Guerrillas 3-0 to advance to the second round of the winners' bracket. Up next will be Los Angeles' othe...

Thieves, Surge improve to 2-0 at CDL Stage 4 Major qualifying
The Los Angeles Thieves and Seattle Surge notched sweeps Sunday to be the first teams to reach 2-0 at Call of Duty League Stage 4 Major qualifying.,The Thieves swept the Boston Breach and the Surge took down the Minnesota Rokkr to move into a tie for first at the end of the first week of qualifying....

These are the current and former NBA players who need their own podcast
A decade ago, who would have thought that current and former players would be the best analysts and commentators in the NBA? A novel idea, eh? Former players Matt Barnes and Stephen Jackson’s “All The Smoke” and Gilbert Arenas were early purveyors of player-run podcasts. It’s since evolved to includ...

These are the oldest players in NFL history
The NFL is a rough, violent game. The average career length in the modern NFL is just 3.3 years in the league. This is why it’s so impressive to see these NFL legends play so deep into their 40s. How many more names will we see join the ranks of the league’s oldest players in history? ...

Roger Goodell and the Top 10 sports figures we’d like to...'celebrate' 4/20 with
There’s something communal about smoking weed. Whether at a bar or house party, one of my favorite parts of any evening of imbibing is sneaking off to an inconspicuous alley and passing around a joint while cracking jokes, coughing, and getting that perfect head rush before re-entering the foray daz...

Don’t Bill-ieve it
One of the great selling points for public money going being used to build a stadium is that, while the stadium itself will be used by teams owned by billionaires, there will be an economic impact to the surrounding community that makes the public investment worthwhile....

The women are coming for baseball
It’s probably too early to call it a new era, but with names like Rachel Balkovec and Genevieve Beacom making the headlines, America’s pastime is definitely due for a change-up. Earlier this week, Balkovec was hired as the new manager of the Yankees’ minor league affiliate the Tampa Tarpons. This hi...

Teenage pitcher becomes first female to play professionally in Australia
Remember that show Pitch that aired on Fox in 2016? That show revolved around the question: “What if there was a female pitcher in Major League Baseball?” The show was canceled after one season despite tremendous reviews from critics and audiences alike with the detractors calling the show “cliché”....

<em>Ten</em>, named for Mookie Blaylock’s number, is 30 years old (Mookie is now 54… How’s THAT feel?!)
There was a time when I used to mark the inevitable march of time by how long ago Pearl Jam’s album Ten came out. This started sometime in the late-1990s when my former high school classmate (who was the only person from high school I chose to stay in contact with — we both pretty much hated everyon...

Justin Bieber releases Maple Leafs song, merging two great plagues into one
Look, I know you’re expecting a rant and a rave and perhaps for your laptop to start emitting smoke from this, but that would just be wasted emotion. Justin Bieber wrote a song about the Leafs, because of course he did....

Confessions Of A Hoarder On The Road To Guitarmageddon
My name is Dave, and I’m a guitar hoarder....

Let These Good Baseball Children Warm Your Rotten Heart
Wednesday night’s Dodgers-Phillies game was interrupted by a lengthy rain delay. For one fan this meant an opportunity to treat the tarp covering the infield as a Slip ’n Slide; for others, it meant sleep. For many, it meant leaving the stadium and going home. Those who left missed the Dodgers carry...

I, The One Person Who Still Doesn't Believe In The Patriots, Know They'll Finally Be Exposed As A Sham In Their Third Straight Super Bowl
After my previous missive, one written before the New England Patriots defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC title game and earned a trip to the Super Bowl, I had many common oafs criticize my prognostication through electronic mail and other various mediums. You lummox, these messages would st...