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"ESPN has been doing a lot lately.  Free games online, citizen journalism, etc.  These are all fairly big steps.  So what's next for ESPN?  It will be adding coverage for professional video gaming.  Does that include SIMS 2? Cos I could be world famous for plot lines that replicate any movie with Joan Crawford or Carey Grant.  And I personally find video games far more interesting than watching a poker game on television.  I may even find it occasionally more exciting than watching, say, basketball?  That's just me.  \nToday, ESPN has signed a multi-year agreement with Major League Gaming.  See, when you abbreviate it, Major League Gaming becomes MLG.  And that rhymes with MLB.  So when Stuart Scott starts reporting on what happened in the 2008 Pro Circuit competitions, you won't even realize that he's not talking about sports.  And I'm pretty hyped about possibly seeing some banter from Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser about the latest round of Gamebattles.  Seriously!\nJason Lee Miller over at Web Pro News, riding high on the success of his predictions, even went so far as to make another: by 2011 we'll see some pay-per-view gaming competitions sponsored by Google's \"surprise entry into the console market, a high tech, lightweight, data-in-the-cloud-driven, Apple collaboration called iGame.\"  He's probably right, except for the year.  Why not go for a debut at the 2008 Olympics, and make it ad-supported?  Before you know it, Toyota Tacomas will actually be available as dragon-slaying weapons in WOW, and both Toyota and IBM will \"ideate\" together to supplement the costs of Google's collaboration with Apple's \"iGame.\"  \n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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