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May 8, 2020 6:55am by Barry Ritholtz My end of week morning train WFH reads: • There is no anti-lockdown protest movement (Vox) • Cold, Crowded, Deadly: How U.S. Meat Plants Became a Virus Breeding Ground (BusinessWeek) • Esports doesn’t need a virus to overtake real sports (Financial Times Alphaville)…

Zenon, a very good Fortnite player from Brazil who also happens to be just nine years old, has received a four-year competitive ban from Epic after the company found out he was playing in paid tournaments while under the game’s minimum age limit.Only this week Zenon had entered, and placed,…

Photo: Stewart Volland (Blizzard Entertainment)Between covid-19 and countless other difficulties, Overwatch League’s make-or-break third season has gone as far off the rails as anyone could have imagined. Now, after losing a star player to Valorant last week, the league has lost one of its top teams. At least, temporarily.Today, the…

May 6, 2020Emily RandESPN When the Vancouver Titans announced that they had parted ways with the entirety of their 2019 Overwatch League lineup, what had already seemed inevitable became fact. Rumors had been swirling since various players removed the Titans name from their social media bios. The Titans dismissed the…

Editors USA TODAYPublished 9:11 AM EDT May 5, 2020Trump to visit Arizona mask plant amid push to lift coronavirus restrictionsPresident Donald Trump will travel to Phoenix on Tuesday, leaving the confines of Washington for the first time in more than a month as the administration begins pushing states to ease coronavirus restrictions…

It has been known for some time now that Esports could very likely make an appearance at the 2024 Olympic games in Paris, though to what capacity remains to be seen. There's no telling what games will be played, whether they'll be deemed worthy of medals, or if France's Hot…

Photo: Long Nguyen (Red Bull Content Pool)The fighting game community’s shift to online competition in the wake of the covid-19 pandemic has increased the scene’s vulnerability to problems that rarely proved serious in the past. Super Smash Bros. Melee tournament organizers learned this firsthand when a top player using a…

oof — Everyone has to decide if it's only a game or if it's a real sport. Jonathan M. Gitlin - May 4, 2020 3:10 pm UTC The finale of IndyCar's iRacing challenge was more action-packed than most races at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Here, with nine laps to go,…

Valve has canceled its major Dota 2 event, The International, amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The International 2020 was scheduled to be held at the Ericsson Globe in Stockholm this summer. A new date has not been announced, but Valve expects the event to be delayed until 2021. “Given the…

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The International in 2019 One of the world's biggest eSports events has been postponed until 2021. The International, which awards huge cash prizes to the winners, was due to take place in Stockholm in August.Last year's tournament was held in Shanghai's 18,000 capacity Mercedes…