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DURHAM, N.C. -- With three big men out with injuries, top-ranked Duke is leaning on its guards for a little bit of everything.Grayson Allen had 25 points and 10 rebounds, freshman Frank Jackson added 21 points and the Blue Devils beat Grand Canyon 96-61 on Saturday.We have to rebound -- the whole perimeter has to rebound, said Allen, who finished one rebound shy of his career best. We know the big guys that we do have in the game, theyre going to be battling, boxing out the other bigs, so the perimeter, we need to crash in and rebound and clean up all the loose stuff.Amile Jefferson scored 15 points, Luke Kennard finished with 14 and Matt Jones had 11 points for the short-handed Blue Devils (2-0).Once again playing without three injured freshman post players, they kept things largely in their guards hands and shot 53 percent to win their second game in less than 24 hours.I like my team a lot. We just have to keep getting better, and then once all these injuries are taken care of in some time, we can become a different team, coach Mike Krzyzewski said. Right now, we have to be this team and not think about who we could be. Our complete focus has got to be how to win with this team.Now, with those two tuneup games out of the way, the focus squarely falls on one of the marquee matchups of the early season: a date with No. 3 Kansas on Tuesday night at Madison Square Garden.Shaq Carr had 18 points to lead pesky Grand Canyon (0-1), which gave Duke more of a test than Marist did in a 94-49 rout a night earlier but came up empty in its second opener against a top-ranked team in three years.BIG PICTUREGrand Canyon: The Antelopes -- who lost to No. 1 Kentucky by 40 points in 2014 -- will have to be content with making things tough on Duke for a good chunk of the first half and leading for about 7 1/2 minutes of the first half behind Carr, who repeatedly found his way through the Blue Devils defense and to the rim.I didnt know what to expect, coach Dan Majerle said about a team missing three starters. I was happy with how we started off. ... I thought maybe the first 12, 13 minutes, we played pretty good and were going to learn about our team as we go along.Duke: The Blue Devils shortened their bench significantly, playing only seven players in the pre-garbage time portion of the game -- and the seventh, freshman Javin DeLaurier, logged only 6 minutes in all. Theyre trying to keep things working without injured freshman big men Harry Giles (knee), Marques Bolden (lower leg) and Jayson Tatum (foot). Krzyzewski says he doesnt anticipate having them against the Jayhawks and we may not have them all week.Whatever amount of time, whatever it is, lets just get well, Krzyzewski added. And while you guys are getting well and supporting the team, lets become a team with these nine guys. We made that a priority this past week. Were trying to figure out the system we need for this group of guys.POLL IMPLICATIONSThe Blue Devils trailed for the first time this season but once again showed no reason why they should be ranked any lower than No. 1.THE COLANGELO CONNECTIONBoth coaches have strong ties to Jerry Colangelo. He was the Phoenix Suns owner when they drafted Majerle in 1988 and lured Thunder Dan to the Grand Canyon program in 2013.And with Colangelo as its chairman and Dukes Mike Krzyzewski as the coach, the U.S. national team won the last three Olympic gold medals.STAT WATCHThe Blue Devils were 21 of 31 from the free-throw line while Grand Canyon was 6 of 12. 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Teenage athletes such as Americas Simone Biles and Katie Ledecky may be racking up the gold medals at the Rio Olympics, but one young competitor might have them beat in the winnings department. Zhang Y`Innocence Yiping is the 18-year-old captain of the Chinese gaming team Wings Gaming, which just won an unprecedented $9.1 million in the biggest esports tournament of all time.Seattles KeyArena played host to the $20 million tournament, which was called The International 6 and featured the competitive video game Dota 2 by Valve. Sixteen elite teams from all over the world took the stage in the main event over six days in front of tens of thousands of fans, with hundreds of thousands watching from home. In the end, the finals came down to two teams: America-based Digital Chaos and the upstart five-man Chinese squad. After a heated and exciting series, Wings Gaming triumphed 3-1. It had run through the double-elimination bracket without dropping a match.When we play, we dont think too much, said Y`Innocence at the press conference following his teams victory. If we have problems in-game, we talk about it afterwards and work it out so we can return to the next game and play.A few months ago, Wings Gaming were a ragtag bunch of up-and-comers who wore drab T-shirts as official uniforms.dddddddddddd. Now, after taking the competitive gaming world by storm in the past six months, Wings are dressed in trim blue and white jerseys with their birdlike insignia across the chest. The change befits the winners of one of the biggest prize purses in sports history.In addition to its 18-year-old captain, Wings is brimming with young talent. Chu Shadow Zeyu is 19, Zhang Faith_bian Ruida is 18, Li iceiceice Peng is 20 and the old man of the team, Zhou bLink Yang, is only 24 years old. The win nets each of them about $1.8 million.Brooklyn Nets player Jeremy Lin was in attendance at the event as a fan and Dota 2 player himself. When asked to explain the appeal, he said, Its like going to the NBA Finals and watching it. Any basketball fan would want to do that, so for me, I love coming here and experiencing it. Its not any different than traditional sports. When we come here and we watch these players playing in front of us, theyre doing things we cant do, which is really the big draw ... I have no idea how big its going to get, but I do know this is only the beginning. ' ' '