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Are esports the next major league sport?

  • Written by Galen Clavio, Associate Professor of Sports Media; Director of the National Sports Journalism Center, Indiana University
imageTwo basketball teams go head-to-head in an esports competition, with spectators cheering them on.Dan Steinberg/Invision for NBA 2K/AP Images

In late 2016, a sports championship event was held in Chicago, drawing 43 million viewers during the series finals. That was 12 million more people than watched the 2016 NBA Finals.

It wasn’t soccer, or...

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