Rivals' "edge service provider" - a company called Edgio - suffered a network-wide outage that impacted Rivals and other sites under their umbrella. The sites went down around 1:15 p.m. and just now came back online around 6 p.m.
Rivals always has a status page here:
Rivals always has a status page here:
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