Can E-Sports Be Bigger Than the NBA, NFL, NHL, and the Olympic Games? They Already Are

The Real Sports Bar & Grill in Toronto beside the Scotiabank Centre is the largest sports bar in the country, with Canada’s largest screen. It wasn’t sold-out for the Super Bowl but tonight, for the launch of a new Toronto foray into esports—competitive video games streamed online, whether played alone or part of teams in big-money leagues—the room is packed by 500 mostly young, mostly male, entirely multi-cultural gamers, and they’re stoked. It’s the first