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Russian grandmaster Andrey Esipenko scored the biggest win of his young career on Sunday, stunning World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen in the eighth round of the Tata Steel Masters in Wijk aan Zee, Netherlands. The 18-year-old Esipenko beat Carlsen in their first-ever classical chess meeting, thoroughly outplaying the Norwegian from […]
Five of seven games provided decisive results on Saturday in a bloody seventh round of play at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament. The results knocked Nils Grandelius out of the lead and left four players tied for first, while World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen continues to struggle to find points […]
Just four teams remain in the NFL playoffs, with the Bills and Chiefs playing for the AFC crown and the Buccaneers and Packers facing off in the NFC. Several key players remain questionable late in conference championship week, so keep an eye on injury news before finalizing your DFS lineups. […]
The fourth round of the Tata Steel Chess Tournament failed to produce any decisive results, meaning that the five-way logjam at the top of the standings remains intact heading into the first rest day. Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana, Anish Giri, Nils Grandelius, and Pentala Harikrishna each sit on 2.5 points […]
Fabiano Caruana narrowly missed a golden opportunity to take the outright lead at the Tata Steel Chess Tournament on Monday, but the American grandmaster remains tied with four other players at the top of the standings. Caruana, Magnus Carlsen, Anish Giri, Pentala Harikrishna, and Nils Grandelius make up the lead […]
Humans have been playing chess for well over 500 years now. If you count the earlier versions of the game, its origins date a millennium earlier. But, only in the past 200 years have the top players battled for the title of World Chess Champion. The history of the World […]
We’ve reached the Elite Eight of the NFL playoffs. Looking at DFS, there appears to be good value in certain spots in each position this weekend as we try to squeeze the most value we can within the salary cap. Here are six players to consider. Quarterback Aaron Rodgers, Packers […]
The Tata Steel Chess Tournament stands as one of the most prestigious chess events in the world. For over 80 years, top grandmasters have traveled to Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands to battle for one of the game’s true major titles. And while organizers have diminished the spectacle this […]
Kristaps Porzingis, aka The Unicorn, is expected to make his season debut with the Dallas Mavericks against the Charlotte Hornets. The 7-foot-3 big man from Latvia recently recovered from a knee injury and surgery, which he suffered in the playoffs last August against the Los Angeles Clippers. Porzingis underwent surgery […]
The first two PogChamps online chess tournaments surpassed all expectations. Featuring lineups of Twitch celebrities, they became two of the most-watched events in chess history. Now, PogChamps 3 will attempt to push the envelope even further in February. Chess.com announced on Monday that PogChamps 3 will begin on Feb. 14, […]
The NHL returns to action on Wednesday for a season that should provide a bit of normalcy for fans, while still retaining a few changes in deference to the COVID-19 pandemic. That means that this week is NHL fantasy hockey draft time, a daunting prospect if you’re not up to […]
As the college football season comes to a close on Monday with the national championship game, the DFS sites will offer their last showdown contests. On DraftKings, we must select a captain (at 1.5x the salary but also while earning 1.5x points) and five other roster spots. While it’d be […]
Two weeks into the NBA season and it’s time to bolster your fantasy basketball team with waiver wire pickups such as Seth Curry (76ers), RJ Barret (Knicks), Bobby Portis (Bucks), Cole Anthony (Magic), De’Andre Hunter (Hawks), Coby White (Bulls), or Tyrese Haliburton (Kings). Cole Anthony and Tyrese Haliburton were both […]
The expanded 2020 playoffs mean this wild-card weekend will give us six games instead of the usual four. Quite a few players are nursing injuries heading into the weekend, but the majority should be able to gut it out. It bears watching the injury – and, as always in 2020, […]
Gerwyn Price became both the world champion and world No. 1 for the first time. The former professional rugby union and rugby league footballer did it the only way he knows how; dominating on the biggest stage there is at the PDC World Darts Championship. Sunday afternoon, the 35-year-old turned […]
Gerwyn Price made history Saturday as he became the first Welshman to reach the PDC World Darts Championship final after a grueling but highlight-filled match vs. the tournament’s scrappiest performer Englishman Stephen Bunting. With a win Sunday, Price has an opportunity to unseat Dutchman Michael van Gerwen as the world […]
Teimour Radjabov and Levon Aronian dominated their respective semifinal matchups at the Airthings Masters, leaving no doubt as to which two players deserved to compete for the first major title on the Champions Chess Tour. Radjabov won the first two games of the second match to finish off Daniil Dubov, […]
World No. 8 Dave Chisnall (+400) destroyed three-time World Champion Michael van Gerwen Friday in a 5-0 victory against the dominating Dutchman that shocked Chisnall himself. The 40-year-old Englishman overcame an oh-for-27 streak against van Gerwen that dates back to February 2016. First PDC Semis with No Dutch Athlete Since […]
College football fans get a four-game slate for New Year’s Day, as we say goodbye to a terrible 2020 and hope for a better 2021. In addition to the two College Football Playoff semifinals, Auburn takes on Northwestern in the Citrus Bowl while Georgia plays Cincinnati in the Peach Bowl. […]
Stephen Bunting overcame long odds again Wednesday and snapped a six-year drought as he made it to the PDC World Championship quarter-final for the first time since his debut season. Nicknamed The Bullet, the 35-year-old Englishman and 26 seed took the first set against fellow countryman, the 33-year-old fan favorite […]
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