Topic: Obsessions

March 4, 2013

It's All Fake: My Life In Virtual Wrestling

Gregg Gethard

Pro wrestling demands an unusual suspension of disbelief, but Efedding—online, role-playing virtual wrestling—requires something more profound of the people who are obsessed with it: actual, total belief in the wrestlers and rivalries that they've collaborated in making up.

February 19, 2013

The Beautiful (Video) Game: Confessions of an Xbox FIFA Obsessive

Dylan Murphy

Millions of people play FIFA on PS3 and Xbox. The author was very recently among the best one-tenth of one percent of those players. All of it is more complicated than you might think.

February 15, 2013

I Know You Got Gasol: Three Friends, Nine Years, One Weird NBA Rap Obsession

David Roth

For the last nine years, three friends have made painstakingly crafted, fully comprehensive rap songs dedicated to the NBA All-Star Game and its participants. Is it impolite to ask why and how they keep doing this?

November 9, 2011

Dice & Boards

Rob Mitchum

The game that decided baseball’s 2011 season had it all: a see-saw slugfest that inevitably led to a 9th-inning blown save; a starting ace coming out of the bullpen for extra-inning heroics; a crucial defensive error setting up the series-winning run. And that’s how the Far Mountain Redhawks became the first team to come back from a 3-1 series deficit to win the championship, celebrating in front of nearly 12,000 stunned Ozarka Naturals fans at Ellie Ewing Stadium.