And so it begins....

[thekimmer]

A rather obscure start but a first step nonetheless in a saga that will reach an inevitable conclusion. My State side hopes for a long and painful process but then I really don't want to see my home state, which has been through enough suffering, endure a protracted mud-dragging because of it.


Link

 

[ronpolk]

What is esports?

 

[DesotoCountyDawg]

Video games.

 

[Go Budaw]

“Ole Miss Esports publicly announced their removal of the name “Rebels” from their team and from all team-affiliated hashtags, making them the first university sports program to ever do so.”

Aww, they called them a “sports program”. That was cute. It’s pretty obvious the DM is trying to force a discussion with that wording that is not really going to be taken seriously, given the subject matter.

 

[WrapItDog]

The Olympic Committee has already determined that Esports is violent and discriminatory. Time to put an end to the OM Esports program. I'm sure the OM Esports program would agree**

We cannot have in the Olympic program a game which is promoting violence or discrimination, so-called ‘killer games’. They, from our point of view, are contradictory to the Olympic values and cannot, therefore, be accepted.

 

[drumrcraig]

We cannot have in the Olympic program a game which is promoting violence or discrimination, so-called ‘killer games’. They, from our point of view, are contradictory to the Olympic values and cannot, therefore, be accepted.

Somehow fighting with swords and wrestling does not reach their standard of violence however. Ha!

 

[dawgman42]

Landsharts aren't offensive in any way.

 

[dawgdr]

But they kept Ole Miss