How Channing Tatum went from stripper to Hollywood megastar

Channing Tatum has gone from being a stripper in Florida to one of Hollywood’s top earners. What does that do to a person? As he returns to the screen in Magic Mike XXL, Rob Haskell investigates.

Last year, a university in Illinois called Robert Morris decided to offer scholarships to prospective members of its new varsity video-game team.

At a time when mathletes, chess kings, and all manner of nerds have avenged themselves thoroughly and far beyond the horn-rimmed realm of Silicon Valley, this piece of news shouldn’t have raised any hackles.