E-Sports: A League of Its Own – Wall Street Journal

You’ve probably heard talk about the rise of “e-sports,” the currently exploding business of professionals playing videogames—and, more important, audiences excited to watch professionals playing videogames. The Journal’s Sarah E. Needleman has been all over this topic for a while now. Investors, advertisers and media companies are lining up to get a piece of what they view as the next great sports phenomenon.

There is indeed a lot of money flying around e-sports, and plenty of salivating about its sponsor-tastic…