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100 Thieves knocks out LYON at LTA North Split 3Following weeks of elimination-free competition, there was an elimination for the second straight day at the League of Legends Championship of The Americas North Split 3 in Los Angeles on Sunday.,After finishing the pick-and-play phase tied for seventh place out of eight teams, 100 Thieves kept its ...

It's make or break for the Los Angeles ClippersCurses run deep. They fester in bloodlines, foundations and scorched Earth and are lamented in prose, lyric and declaration. From Shakespeare to Dostoevsky, curses are a part of the canon of human creativity. After the Boston Red Sox broke theirs in 2004 and LeBron James brought a championship to Cl...

These are the current and former NBA players who need their own podcastA 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...

Deandre Ayton’s ice capades the latest embarrassment in Portland’s rebuild

The NBA trade market is open for business and one team in particular would like you to know that it is jarringly open to offers. The Portland Trail Blazers might not have issued a news release saying as much, yet when your starting center misses a game due to too much ice, the telltale signs of rebu...

Deadspin Dead Ringers: Professional athletes and their celebrity doppelgängers

We’ve all heard of doppelgängers — people who aren’t related but look like one another. There’s a whole subreddit dedicated to finding lookalikes. There was a Saturday Night Live short on the subject. But have you ever looked at one of your favorite athletes, or a player on your favorite team and no...

What’s to be done with these Los Angeles Dodgers?

You kind of knew it was over for the Dodgers the minute they acquired Lance Lynn. Lance Lynn? This is the Dodgers, for Christ’s sake! When they need help in the rotation, they go get Zack Greinke, or Yu Darvish, or Max Scherzer. They shop at the supermarket that plebs like you and I aren’t even allo...

MLB got what it deserves with its wild-card round

MLB and Rob Manfred don’t really have to care what happens in the wildcard round. Their only aim was to provide more playoff baseball, good or not, because its mere existence netted them more TV cash. So the fact that MLB will get no Game 3s, no interesting storylines, and barely any drama, followin...

And now, a national moment of silence: The Twins' playoff-win drought is over

Our long national nightmare is over. The Minnesota Twins won a playoff game....