ESPN leaps into esports

Sports Editor | mvv022@latech.edu

VALCHOWhen I turned my TV on one morning last week, I thought that I had left my Xbox on by accident overnight. Call of Duty, or CoD, was being played on my screen. Only thing was that I didn’t have a controller in my hand and whoever was playing was way better than I could even hope to be. Then I looked down and saw the ever-present ESPN logo in the bottom right part of my screen. My mind took a second to register that my console was off and that I was definitely not playing.

So what is this on my TV? Professional video gaming, or esports, has made its way onto the airwaves of ESPN. Pro gaming can’t be a sport, can it? Playing video games doesn’t require…