BetBoom Team won twice on Monday in order to charge through the opening portion of the lower bracket at The International 2024 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The lower bracket of the double-elimination playoffs began Monday, and BetBoom escaped the first round with a 2-1 win over Talon Esports before sweeping nouns 2-0 in the next round. 1w Team defeated Team Zero 2-0 in the first round but were then swept away by Team Falcons by the same score. BetBoom and Falcons will meet later this week in Round 3 of the lower bracket. Talon, Team Zero, 1w Team and nouns were eliminated from the competition. The playoffs began with 16 teams seeded in either the upper or lower bracket based on the results of the group stage and seeding deciders. The winners of the decider matches began the main event in t…

That weird story about a robbery in Aroldis Chapman's Pittsburgh hotel room three weeks ago only got weirder when the woman found tied up in the room couldn't get her story straight. Claudia Manrique is a 26-year-old stripper Chapman began dating in April who "would meet him in other cities where the Reds were playing," according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has since failed a polygraph test and was issued a summons on a misdemeanor charge of filing a false report to authorities. This is where I ought to remind you that Chapman thinks Manrique owes somebody anywhere from $9,000 to $30,000, that cops in Baltimore say she took $2,000 from some other guy, and that she's married to someone else. [ Pittsburgh Post-Gazette] …

Here at NOTY, it’s axiomatic that a truly great name has it going both ways. Just look at the Hall of Name: Assumption Bulltron, Nimrod Weiselfish, Tanqueray Beavers, Princess Nocandy, Vanilla Dong, Destiny Frankenstein. And we haven’t inducted a new class in a while, so no Barkevious Mingo, Taco B.M. Monster, Nohjay Nimpson or last year’s winner, Kobe Buffalomeat. First name and last, front and back, top and bottom. These great names bring it every which way. Your 2018 Name of the Year does too. With surprising ease, Canadian hockey player Jimbob Ghostkeeper waffleboarded away Dr. Narwhals Mating in the championship final, racking up a whopping 57 percent of the more than 7,500 votes cast. Let’s start with the champ’s surname. Ghostkeeper is a 1981 Canadian horror movie in …

Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: New Orleans Saints. WHO DAT! I just want to reiterate how much I hate that fucking catchphrase. We are all DAT, Saints fans. We are not keeping a low profile. We are DAT team that say we gon beat dem Saints because dey are shit on defense and won’t stop turning the ball over. So by all means, New Orleans: ask us who we are. Point us out. We will gladly identify all your shortcomings. There’s no shame in saying you are confident about defeating a 7-9 team. That is common sense at work. Your 2014 record: 7-9. See? Your coach: Sean Payton, who sits in at…

Can you pinpoint the precise moment the Peyton Manning chase turned insane? Was it the "Manning to Miami" billboard? Was it when the billboard came down in shame? Was it when a grainy YouTube video had everyone crowing "he's back?" Was it the live look-ins of Manning's jet landing, or his minivan cruising down the highway? Was it when a laughably bad hoax article fooled a ton of people? Was it when Shoney's offered Manning free pancakes every day of his Titans career? Was it when the omnipresent mystery team emerged, and it turned out to be the 49ers? No, it was probably when Manning refused to perform a proper workout with any of his suitors, instead asking them to rely solely upon watching him throw at Duke, and those suitors said fine, we&#…

Cleveland 3, Cincinnati 14. Chad Johnson caught a touchdown pass for the Bengals, and followed it up with… the chicken dance. The era of awesome touchdown celebrations may be officially over. When we're doing dances that are designed for white people to do at weddings, I think we're in trouble. I don't even feel like watching football anymore. Oakland 3, Baltimore 9. The Ravens sort of dominated for the first twenty minutes of the game, but they couldn't get in the endzone. Then Andrew Walter came in for Aaron Books, and suddenly, the Raiders improved at an incredible pace. Close to halftime, the lead is currently six. That should embarrass the Ravens. Lions 0, Bears 24. How's that guarantee working out for you, Roy Williams? Week 2 guarantees are, in gene…

data-mm-id=”_rtbmuiqtg”>Jamal Adams won't be calling in for his once-weekly spot on WFAN after a contentious appearance last week, Maggie Gray announced today. The New York Jets safety was asked about his decision to remove the team from his Twitter and Instagram bios on his last foray and remains salty about it. Classic 2019. Adams is the second high-profile football man in the biggest media market to punt on his radio appearances in the past few days; Giants coach Pat Shurmur decided he no longer needed the aggravation, either. Gray's co-host Bart Scott unsurprisingly is not a fan of Adams' decision.”“I’m disappointed, too, because I look at Jamal as like a little brother. And this is bad advice. It’s one thing to maybe not do it after the season, but you always …

data-mm-id=”_f774lg4sf”>Miami and new head coach Manny Diaz made a lot of noise this offseason. Diaz loudly claimed he wanted to bring swagger back to "The U" and wound up landing a number of big-name transfers. Hype increased and the Hurricanes were expected to show some life this season. That hasn't happened.Miami lost to Florida International 30-24 on Saturday in a monumentally embarrassing upset. The Hurricanes were favored by 21 points and somehow lost to a terrible FIU squad. It was the third time Miami has lost as at least a 14-point favorite this season. It has been 40 years since that happened in college football. With the loss to FIU, Miami becomes the only team in the last 40 years to lose three times as a 14-point favorite in a single season. Canes lost to VT…

data-mm-id=”_0jxpagruw”>Jermaine Jones has never been a man to hold back his opinions, and in a new interview with Sports Illustrated's Grant Wahl, he went off on the way U.S. Soccer is currently run. Jones often used the phrase "with all due respect" before absolutely annihilating an aspect of the U.S. Soccer system. A brief sampling is below.On Bruce Arena:”“Bruce Arena, with all due respect, is the worst coach I ever had in my whole career. The worst. And he’s like the No. 1 American coach.””More on Arena:”“With all due respect, how can you go from Bob Bradley and Jürgen Klinsmann to Bruce Arena? Like, what are you doing, guys?””On long-time U.S. national team player Tim Ream:”“Tim Ream is not a national team captain, with all due respect. He’s a nice m…

data-mm-id=”_odf5h5gun”>The Los Angeles Clippers blew a 3-1 lead to the Denver Nuggets, and now wholesale changes are taking place. Adrian Wojnarowski dropped a patented Woj Bomb on Monday evening when he reported Doc Rivers was out as head coach of the team. Coach Doc Rivers is out with the Clippers, sources tell ESPN.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) September 28, 2020This is a surprise because it was only Doc's first year with the star pairing of Kawhi Leonard and Paul George that came together last summer. And it was obviously quite a weird year, what with the pandemic cutting the season short and the playoffs taking place in neutral territory while players were, for the most part, unable to see friends or family. Losing a series in seven games after going up 3-1 is definitely…