Why e-sports careers are shorter than those of athletes

E-sports stars have short careersshorter than sports stars. The general assumption is that the coordination and focus required selects for youth even more than athletic performance does, but medical experts say that's not at all true. Instead, the Washington Post's Jonathan Lee traces more complex causes: success leads to an entrepreneurial track promoting gamer bric-a-brac; overtraining and no unions to stop it; burnout; bad contracts; and even the self-fulfilling prophecy of it all being a young person's world. — Read the rest