The merging of traditional sports and eSports continued Thursday as five organizations, including Fnatic, Echo Fox, Rogue, NRG and Immortals, announced the formation of eSports teams for mobile game Vainglory and will begin competition in March for the spring season. Echo Fox, NRG and Immortals all have ownership ties to some of the major U.S. professional […]
Compared to their European counterparts in the English Premier League, La Liga and other overseas organizations, U.S. professional sports leagues are still in the preliminary stages of their eSports involvement. The NHL, for example, is still on the outside looking in. One source recently told Elliotte Friedman, who is an NHL Insider at Sportsnet, that the league’s […]
Former Los Angeles Lakers forward Rick Fox entered the eSports scene last December, purchasing a League of Legends team for a reported $1 million and rebranding it Echo Fox. Fox recently indicated he may be joined by former teammate and Laker legend Kobe Bryant in the gaming world. In an interview last week with Bleacher Report’s […]
