Racing real live camels with your Xbox controller

You didn't see this on ESPN, but last week a new sports video game franchise might have been born in the United Arab Emirates. Ten remote-controlled robots were placed atop ten racing camels. The camels were then sent running around a 10-kilometer track in the while the people controlling them chased behind in more conventional vehicles.

Now that remote-controlled camel racing is possible and conceivable, it's only a small leap to move the controls farther and farther away from the actual race and closer and closer to our living rooms. Can Akbar's Camel Racing 2K9 for the Xbox 720 Live service be all that far behind? Perhaps for a small fee of just $.10, you'll be able to adorn your camel with racing stripes, golden stirrups and iced-out front teeth.