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ABC/ESPN and Fox Sports on Tuesday unveiled their respective broadcast schedules for the XFL football league’s 2020 revival season, which will kick off (#SportsPun) less than a week after the NFL’s Super Bowl LIV. All told, ABC and ESPN will combine to televise 22 games, and Fox Sports will handle the other 21. Fox will […]
Three seasons down the line, the fledgling Drone Racing League (DRL) is still not a household name. But it continues to draw major broadcasters and is now set to make its debut on social media. For its upcoming world championship season, the DRL is making the switch from ESPN to the home of NASCAR: NBC […]
Shanghai Dragons is reportedly fixing a problem with Overwatch League: the lack of female players for a game with an impressively diverse cast of characters. According to ESPN, the team has signed South Korean player Kim “Geguri” Se-yeon, who’s so good at playing Zarya (pictured above), she was once accused of using cheats. After Geguri […]
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has left the Early Access program for unfinished games on Steam, and now esports organizations want to see if they can make it into a major draw. Global Loot League is leading that charge with a PUBG season that comes with $ 50,000 in prize money. That is one of the larger prize […]
ESL is bringing two of its leagues exclusively to Facebook Watch. Are no-scope 360 headshots the new “meaningful interaction”? https://media.wired.com/photos/5a602bd0dcebae339730ba65/master/pass/eslcologne.jpg
On Wednesday, Overwatch League (OWL) had its first-ever matches, drawing a huge crowd online. Six teams came to play the debut matches in Blizzard’s Los Angeles eSports arena, but they were also streamed on Twitch to record numbers, peaking at over 360,000 viewers, according to Eurogamer. If you missed any of the #OWL2018 matches today, […]
GUEST: For years, esports has developed and grown organically and without much structure, a real Wild West of teams and leagues and sponsors. Game publishers were so happy that people were buying, playing, and talking about their games that they were satisfied to sit back and enjoy the profits. But as the esports industry continues to […]
GUEST: Streaming and esports have been intertwined through their history. As the esports industry evolves to more resemble traditional sports, companies are starting to invest in exclusive streaming partnerships. These days, it’s becoming common to see certain events on specific platforms, such as the Capcom Pro Tour streamed exclusively on Twitch. Last week, Disney put […]
If you like minor-league baseball game and very good dogs, the U.S. is the place to go. Jake the Diamond Dog has been a fixture at minor-league games for years, touring ballparks and bringing joy by delivering game balls, catching Frisbees and serving as “bat dog.” Jake the Diamond Dog is an elite bat boy 10/10 would pet pic.twitter.com/IClu2yLeha — […]
FROM shoes to shirts and phones to fridges, made-in-China goods have blanketed the globe over the past three decades, entering every country and just about every home. But one kind of Chinese good few abroad dare touch: its financial assets. Outsiders own less than 2% of its shares and bonds, far below the levels of […]
