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  • NFL: Report: Patriots waive RB James Robinson

    NFL: Report: Patriots waive RB James Robinson


    The New England Patriots waived former 1,000-yard rusher James Robinson on Monday, ESPN reported.

    The former Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Jets running back signed a two-year, $4 million deal in March.

    Robinson rushed for 1,070 yards as an undrafted rookie with the Jaguars in 2020.

    He rushed for 85 yards in four games with the Jets last season after being acquired in a trade in October.

    Robinson, 24, has gained 2,879 yards from scrimmage with 23 touchdowns in 39 career games (32 starts).

    Rhamondre Stevenson is the RB1 for the Pats, who also have Pierre Strong Jr. and Ty Montgomery on the roster.

    –Field Level Media

  • DOTA: 9Pandas, Talon make moves at DreamLeague Season 20

    DOTA: 9Pandas, Talon make moves at DreamLeague Season 20


    9Pandas scored their second win of Group B action at DreamLeague Season 20 on Monday, while Talon Esports got on the board in Group A.

    9Pandas drew with Team Aster before their 2-0 victory over BetBoom Team – which won two matches Sunday. 9Pandas, BetBoom and Gaimin Gladiators are in a tie for the lead in Group B.

    For the second straight day, only one of eight Group A matches ended in a win while the rest were 1-1 draws. Talon Esports beat Team Liquid 2-0 after Tundra Esports beat Liquid on Sunday.

    Sixteen teams from around the world were invited to DreamLeague Season 20 to compete for a $1 million prize pool. The winner will receive $300,000 and the runner-up will earn $175,000, with both of the top two finishers qualifying for the Riyadh Masters later this year.

    Group Stage 1 will run from Sunday through Wednesday, with a single round-robin format and all matches best-of-two.

    The top four teams from each group will advance to Group Stage 2 and form one single group of eight. The top four finishers from Group Stage 2 will qualify for a double-elimination playoff stage June 24-25.

    On Monday, 9Pandas defeated BetBoom in 31 minutes on green and 39 minutes on red. The group’s only other 2-0 result came in favor of OG, which beat Entity in 57 minutes and 36 minutes, both on green.

    As for Group A, Talon took down Liquid in 48 minutes on green and 28 minutes on red. Five of the group’s eight teams now have identical records with four ties in four matches.

    Group A standings (match W-D-L, map record)
    T1. Talon Esports — 1-3-0, 5-3
    T1. Tundra Esports — 1-3-0, 5-3
    T3. Evil Geniuses — 0-4-0, 4-4
    T3. PSG.LGD — 0-4-0, 4-4
    T3. Team Secret — 0-4-0, 4-4
    T3. Team Spirit — 0-4-0, 4-4
    T3. TSM — 0-4-0, 4-4
    8. Team Liquid — 0-2-2, 2-6

    Group B standings (match W-D-L, map record)
    T1. 9Pandas — 2-1-1, 5-3
    T1. BetBoom Team — 2-1-1, 5-3
    T1. Gaimin Gladiators — 1-3-0, 5-3
    T4. beastcoast — 0-4-0, 4-4
    T4. OG — 1-2-1, 4-4
    T4. Team Aster — 1-2-1, 4-4
    7. Shopify Rebellion — 0-3-1, 3-5
    8. Entity – 0-2-2, 2-6

    –Field Level Media

  • CSGO: Full 24-team field announced for IEM Cologne

    CSGO: Full 24-team field announced for IEM Cologne


    The full 24-team field for the $1 million Intel Extreme Masters Cologne event was confirmed on Monday.

    IEM Cologne runs from July 26 to Aug. 6 in Cologne, Germany, with a top prize of $400,000.

    Four top Counter-Strike: Global Offensive teams qualified directly to the group stage: G2 Esports (IEM Katowice winner), FaZe Clan (EPL Season 17 winner), ENCE (IEM Dallas winner) and Team Vitality (IEM Rio winner).

    Four others qualified for the group stage based on their ESL World Ranking: HEROIC, Cloud9, Natus Vincere and GamerLegion.

    The other 16 teams will start off in the play-in stage: MOUZ, Apeks, 9INE, FURIA Esports, Team Liquid, Imperial Sportsbet, The MongolZ, GRAYHOUND, fnatic, paiN Gaming, Monte, Ninjas in Pyjamas, FORZE, Astralis, Into The Breach and BIG Academy.

    The July 25-26 play-in stage features a double-elimination bracket. Opening matches are best-of-one and the remaining matches are best-of-three. The top eight teams advance to the group stage.

    The July 27-30 group stage will have two double-elimination groups of eight teams each. All matches are best-of-three and the top three teams from each group advance to the playoffs.

    The Aug. 4-6 playoff bracket is a single-elimination format. All matches are best-of-three until the best-of-five grand final. In addition to the $400,000 prize, the winner also receives 3,000 BLAST Premier points and directly qualifies for IEM Katowice 2024.

    –Field Level Media

  • CSGO: Report: MOUZ bringing back siuhy to replace dexter

    CSGO: Report: MOUZ bringing back siuhy to replace dexter


    MOUZ are close to signing Kamil “siuhy” Szkaradek to replace CS:GO captain Christopher “dexter” Nong, Dexerto reported Monday.

    Negotiations on siuhy’s transfer from GamerLegion are at “a very advanced stage,” according to the report.

    siuhy helped GamerLegion qualify for back-to-back majors at IEM Rio (November) and the BLAST Paris Major (May).

    The 20-year-old Polish prodigy played for the MOUZ academy team prior to joining GamerLegion in September.

    –Field Level Media

  • WNBA: High-scoring Liberty look for another win over Dream

    WNBA: High-scoring Liberty look for another win over Dream


    The Atlanta Dream head to New York to face the Liberty on Tuesday with at least one stat in mind.

    The Liberty have scored more than 100 points in consecutive games for the first time in franchise history. They defeated the Dream 106-83 in Atlanta on Friday and topped the Dallas Wings 102-93 at home on Sunday.

    New York leads the WNBA in 3-point percentage (37.7), total 3-pointers (81) and assists per game (24.5).

    Much of this is due to the addition of three stars who joined the Liberty this season: 2018 league MVP Breanna Stewart, six-time WNBA assists leader Courtney Vandersloot and 2021 league MVP Jonquel Jones. All three of them are four-time All-Stars.

    Stewart, a two-time WNBA Finals MVP, ranks second in the league in scoring (24.9), third in blocks (2.1) and third in steals (1.9).

    Vandersloot leads the league in assists (9.3).

    Then there’s Sabrina Ionescu, the first overall pick in the 2020 WNBA Draft by the Liberty. She leads the league in 3-pointers made (27) and scored a career-high 37 points on Friday when the Liberty defeated Atlanta.

    Ionescu made a franchise-record eight 3-pointers in that game as the Liberty (6-2) are starting to mesh.

    “As this group has come together,” Stewart said, “we’re having an awareness of where one another is, the spots.”

    The Dream (2-5), meanwhile, enter Tuesday on a three-game losing streak.

    Atlanta has wasted an early season schedule that was heavier on home games (1-4) than road contests (1-1), and will play its next four on the road.

    The Dream are led by wing Rhyne Howard, power forward Cheyenne Parker and guard Allisha Gray.

    Howard, the league’s first overall pick in 2022 out of Kentucky, averaged 16.2 points last season and was named the WNBA Rookie of the Year. This year, she is averaging 16.7 points, and she became the first WNBA player to get to 100 career 3-pointers in 40 or fewer games on Friday.

    “Okay, I made history,” Howard said after the loss to New York. “But I don’t think about that during a game.”

    Parker, a New York City native, will be making a homecoming. She is averaging 16.9 points, which puts her on career-high pace.

    –Field Level Media

  • WNBA: After ‘team effort,’ Mercury set to host Storm

    WNBA: After ‘team effort,’ Mercury set to host Storm


    The Phoenix Mercury seek consecutive wins for the first time this season as they welcome the Seattle Storm on Tuesday in a Commissioner’s Cup game.

    Phoenix (2-5) snapped a three-game losing skid on Sunday, rallying from down eight points at the start of the fourth quarter in an 85-82 road win over the Indiana Fever. All five Mercury starters scored in double figures, led by Britney Griner with 29 points.

    Phoenix also got 18 points, seven assists and six rebounds from veteran Diana Taurasi, who was playing on her 41st birthday.

    “Great, great team effort,” Mercury head coach Vanessa Nygaard told the team after the victory. “We had our backs against the wall, had people out, we’re on the road, all those things, y’all stepped up.”

    The Mercury were without Moriah Jefferson, who was limited to six minutes with an ankle injury in Friday’s loss to Dallas. She is listed as questionable for Tuesday.

    Seattle (1-6) limps into Phoenix having lost its last two after it snapped a season-opening, four-game skid.

    The Storm beat the Los Angeles Sparks 66-63 last Tuesday, showing a grind-it-out defense in a comeback victory. The win kicked off a three-game stretch in which Seattle has not allowed more than 73 points — however, the Storm have the WNBA’s lowest-scoring offense and failed to produce more than 66 in any of the three.

    That resulted in 73-66 and 71-65 losses to the Washington Mystics on Friday and Sunday, respectively. The losses marked the Storm’s fourth and fifth single-digit defeats of the season.

    “We just haven’t been in these moments enough as a unit to know just taking care of the ball and how we need to execute and just kind of be sharper,” Storm coach Noelle Quinn said. “But this is the growth that is happening, will happen, needs to happen for us to get over the hump.”

    Jewell Loyd has done her part to bolster Seattle’s league-low 73.6-points-per-game output, averaging a WNBA-high 26.0 points per contest. After Ezi Magbegor’s 14.0 ppg average, however, no other Storm player is producing more than 7.1 points a contest.

    Seattle played Friday’s contest without Loyd due to a foot injury. She returned to the lineup on Sunday and scored 16 points, leading four Storm scorers in double figures.

    –Field Level Media

  • NCAAB: Kentucky adds 3-star F Jordan Burks to help build thin roster

    NCAAB: Kentucky adds 3-star F Jordan Burks to help build thin roster


    Kentucky welcomed Class of 2023 three-star forward Jordan Burks on Monday, just the eighth player on the Wildcats’ 2023-24 roster so far.

    The Wildcats have the top-ranked incoming recruiting class, a six-man group highlighted by consensus top-10 players DJ Wagner, Aaron Bradshaw and Justin Edwards. Point guard Robert Dillingham is the fourth five-star of the bunch, per the 247Sports composite rankings.

    But coach John Calipari and the Wildcats aren’t getting back former National Player of the Year Oscar Tshiebwe, Jacob Toppin, Chris Livingston or Cason Wallace, former starters who entered the NBA draft.

    Guard Antonio Reeves entered the transfer portal but could decide to return to Kentucky, while forward Lance Ware (Villanova) and guard Sahvir Wheeler (Washington) are tranferring.

    Burks was once committed to Ole Miss before backing out. Burks’ high school plays in the Overtime Elite league, and he led the league last season with 27 points per game in the regular season and 23 ppg in the playoffs.

    The 6-foot-9, 190-pound Burks was ranked No. 172 overall in his class by the 247Sports composite.

    –Field Level Media

  • NCAAB: Reports: North Dakota St. transfer Grant Nelson picks Alabama

    NCAAB: Reports: North Dakota St. transfer Grant Nelson picks Alabama


    North Dakota State forward Grant Nelson, one of the top players remaining in the NCAA transfer portal, is expected to commit to Alabama, several reports said Monday.

    Nelson was deciding between Alabama and SEC rival Arkansas after visiting both schools.

    An All-Summit League first-team selection, Nelson posted 17.9 points and 9.3 rebounds per game over 30 starts in 2022-23. He declared for the NBA draft and received an invitation to the scouting combine before withdrawing ahead of the May 31 deadline to maintain his NCAA eligibility.

    In three seasons at North Dakota State, the 6-foot-11 Nelson owns career averages of 12.1 points, 6.0 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per contest.

    With the Crimson Tide, he’ll help replace the production of forward and SEC Player of the Year Brandon Miller, who is expected to be a top-three selection in this month’s draft.

    –Field Level Media

  • NCAAB: Reports: Ex-UNC commit Simeon Wilcher chooses St. John’s

    NCAAB: Reports: Ex-UNC commit Simeon Wilcher chooses St. John’s


    Combo guard Simeon Wilcher, a high-end four-star high school prospect who decommitted from North Carolina last week, will play for Rick Pitino at St. John’s, multiple reports said Monday.

    Wilcher was ranked No. 34 overall in the Class of 2023 and No. 7 among combo guards, per the 247Sports composite rankings.

    He played his high school basketball at New Jersey powerhouse Roselle Catholic and had been committed to North Carolina since October 2021.

    St. John’s hired Hall of Fame coach Pitino from Iona this spring after firing Mike Anderson. Pitino has since reshaped the Red Storm’s roster with several incoming transfers, three from Iona — Daniss Jenkins, Cruz Davis and Quinn Slazinski – as well as Zuby Ejiofor (Kansas), Ivy League Player of the Year Jordan Dingle (Penn), Glenn Taylor Jr. (Oregon State), Nahiem Alleyne (UConn), RJ Luis (UMass) and Sean Conway (VMI).

    –Field Level Media

  • NBA: Report: Raptors G Fred VanVleet opting out of contract

    NBA: Report: Raptors G Fred VanVleet opting out of contract


    Toronto Raptors All-Star Fred VanVleet is declining his $22.8 million player option for 2023-24 to enter free agency, ESPN reported Monday.

    The 29-year-old guard has not ruled out negotiating a new deal with Toronto, where he averaged 19.3 points, 7.2 assists and 4.1 rebounds in 69 games (all starts) in 2022-23. He was third in the NBA with 1.8 steals per game.

    VanVleet has spent his entire career with the Raptors, making the All-Star team in 2021-22 and helping them win an NBA championship in 2018-19.

    He owns career averages of 14.6 points, 5.3 assists and 3.3 rebounds in 417 games (268 starts) since arriving as an undrafted free agent in July 2016.

    VanVleet signed a four-year, $85 million deal with the Raptors in November 2020. If he declines his player option, he would become an unrestricted free agent on July 6.

    –Field Level Media