The N.Y. TIMES writes of the growth of esports: "Kids were already drifting away from traditional sports before the pandemic, with ramifications for the entire sports industry. The trend has accelerated in the pandemic." There is a "surging migration among members of Generation Z" away from the "basketball courts and soccer fields built for previous generations and toward the PlayStations and Xboxes." It is "not a zero-sum game," but it is "clear that the rise of esports has come at the expense of traditional youth sports, with implications for their future and for the way children grow up."
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