An electoral defeat like the one just suffered by Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party is guaranteed to keep the ...

More than Freddie Freeman or Francisco Lindor or those Yankee jamokes who tried to rip off Mookie Betts’s hand, I will ...

We have a pretty good idea that neither the Baltimore Ravens nor Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl, if only because they’re both far too fun to survive the difficult December/January ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

There are times when the lag between when we record The Distraction (on Tuesday mornings) and when it goes up (the first ...

As loyal readers of Defector know, I am never wrong. I’ve certainly never written an article that was eventually proven to be ...

Each weekday, I send out a newsletter called The Cipher to Defector Pal-level subscribers, which has a recap of the blog day, ...

If you are looking for some wonder and whimsy from the animal kingdom to lift your spirits this week—some uplifting tale of a shrew that is so small that it sails on gusts of wind, or a fossil of an ...

I stood on an empty stretch of the Alaska Highway and squinted north as the sky darkened. I had parked a couple of miles away ...

In Quincy, the 2018 documentary meant to capture the totality of Quincy Jones’s contributions to the last 70-plus years of ...

Derrick White, unglamorous secondary ball-handler for the defending champion Boston Celtics, does many things well. He’s a ...

The Golden State Warriors are evidently the dynasty that won’t die. It is a dynasty that will age and eventually expire, of course, because they all do, and maybe this will all collapse in a heap of ...