School bets video game scholarship can draw talent

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School bets video game scholarship can draw talent

Added: 07.10.2014 5:12 | 8 views | 0 comments

His grades tanked. His parents fretted. A few years later, the 20-year-old from the San Francisco area leads a team of headset-wearing players into virtual battle in a darkened room at a small private university in Chicago. He's studying computer networking there on a nearly $15,000 a year athletic scholarship for playing League of Legends, the video game that once jeopardized his high school diploma.