A school in Sweden is on the lookout for its next eSports star.

And in its hopes to find the country its next top female gamer, adult education center Strombacks Folkhogskola is gearing up to launch a one-year course in eSports that focuses on the Counter Strike franchise.

In an interview with The Local, course administrator Johan Agren said they were inspired by a school in Norway, which has a similar course. That school was the Garnes Videregående Skole, the first educational institution in the West to add eSports to its curriculum. At the Norwegian school, students have the option to select five hours of gaming instead of participating in sports such as soccer, basketball or baseball.

“Part of our job as educators is to be where the people are, and this is incredibly huge at the moment,” Agren told the Swedish news outlet.

A school in Sweden is on the lookout for its next eSports star.

And in its hopes to find the country its next top female gamer, adult education center Strombacks Folkhogskola is gearing up to launch a one-year course in eSports that focuses on the Counter Strike franchise.

In an interview with The Local, course administrator Johan Agren said they were inspired by a school in Norway, which has a similar course. That school was the Garnes Videregående Skole, the first educational institution in the West to add eSports to its curriculum. At the Norwegian school, students have the option to select five hours of gaming instead of participating in sports such as soccer, basketball or baseball.

“Part of our job as educators is to be where the people are, and this is incredibly huge at the moment,” Agren told the Swedish news outlet.

This weekend will see if the film, The Revenant, will collect a plethora of film awards, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s coveted Oscars. But before we go into the game of will he or will he not—win the best actor award, that is—let’s take a look into how the Native Americans invested in areas, particularly gaming, in the nineteenth century.

The movie, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, is a classic survival tale that follows fur trapper Hugo Glass as he traverses the wilderness of North America. At the same time, the film also offers a glimpse at the tribes who called these territories home.

But what has become of these tribes today? There are currently 326 Indian reservations with 566 federally recognized tribes. One of these groups was the Arikara—the tribe that Glass came into contact with several times—now live in the Fort Berthold Reserve and form one of the federally recognized “Three Affiliated Tribes” in North Dakota. And like many other tribes, the Arikara have gone into the gaming industry and founded the 4 Bears Casino in New Town.

Casinos have played an important part in enabling tribes to get an income. According to a Unibet study, the success of Indian casinos began in 1970 when the Supreme Court declared that “not only do states not have authority to tax Indians on Indian reservations, but they also lack the authority to regulate Indian activities by Indians on Indian reservations.”

This weekend will see if the film, The Revenant, will collect a plethora of film awards, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s coveted Oscars. But before we go into the game of will he or will he not—win the best actor award, that is—let’s take a look into how the Native Americans invested in areas, particularly gaming, in the nineteenth century.

The movie, directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, is a classic survival tale that follows fur trapper Hugo Glass as he traverses the wilderness of North America. At the same time, the film also offers a glimpse at the tribes who called these territories home.

But what has become of these tribes today? There are currently 326 Indian reservations with 566 federally recognized tribes. One of these groups was the Arikara—the tribe that Glass came into contact with several times—now live in the Fort Berthold Reserve and form one of the federally recognized “Three Affiliated Tribes” in North Dakota. And like many other tribes, the Arikara have gone into the gaming industry and founded the 4 Bears Casino in New Town.

Casinos have played an important part in enabling tribes to get an income. According to a Unibet study, the success of Indian casinos began in 1970 when the Supreme Court declared that “not only do states not have authority to tax Indians on Indian reservations, but they also lack the authority to regulate Indian activities by Indians on Indian reservations.”

In this week’s poker news round up the Global Poker League Draft is in the books, the World Series of Poker announce 69 events for their summer extravaganza and much more.

The Global Poker League (GPL) looks more like a league after the bulk of the jigsaw pieces merged during one hell of a night at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Alexandre Dreyfus and his team hosted the American Poker Conference, the American Poker Awards (APA) and the one that everyone has been waiting for – the inaugural GPL Draft.

It was a stunning success for Dreyfus. Poker has a future; this is it. The panel of Joe Stapleton, Eric Danis, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth made it fun for everyone watching on twitch, and there are some incredibly strong teams with the London Royals and Montreal Nationals looking particularly impressive.

In this week’s poker news round up the Global Poker League Draft is in the books, the World Series of Poker announce 69 events for their summer extravaganza and much more.

The Global Poker League (GPL) looks more like a league after the bulk of the jigsaw pieces merged during one hell of a night at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills.

Alexandre Dreyfus and his team hosted the American Poker Conference, the American Poker Awards (APA) and the one that everyone has been waiting for – the inaugural GPL Draft.

It was a stunning success for Dreyfus. Poker has a future; this is it. The panel of Joe Stapleton, Eric Danis, Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth made it fun for everyone watching on twitch, and there are some incredibly strong teams with the London Royals and Montreal Nationals looking particularly impressive.

This is a guest contribution by Jon Kuiperij of Sportsbookbonus.ca. If you would like to submit a contribution please contact Bill Beatty for submission details. Thank you.

I was always convinced I would make my living writing about sports. I just never imagined it would be like this.

A dozen years ago, at the tender age of 24, I interviewed members of the Indianapolis Colts in their dressing room while Peyton Manning was getting dressed five feet away. I sat courtside at the media table at an NBA game. I conducted 1-on-1 interviews with young hockey prospects who later developed into NHL stars.

And I thought nothing of it. This was my path. This was normal.

This is a guest contribution by Jon Kuiperij of Sportsbookbonus.ca. If you would like to submit a contribution please contact Bill Beatty for submission details. Thank you.

I was always convinced I would make my living writing about sports. I just never imagined it would be like this.

A dozen years ago, at the tender age of 24, I interviewed members of the Indianapolis Colts in their dressing room while Peyton Manning was getting dressed five feet away. I sat courtside at the media table at an NBA game. I conducted 1-on-1 interviews with young hockey prospects who later developed into NHL stars.

And I thought nothing of it. This was my path. This was normal.