As college football administrators deliberate over whether to expand the current 12-team playoff to 16 teams, monopoly-minded ...

It’s not AI winter just yet, though there is a distinct chill in the air. Meta is shaking up and downsizing its artificial intelligence division. A new report out of MIT finds that 95 percent of ...

Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all ...

Mönch (Monk) is a solid polyester figure, life-sized and jarringly lifelike in its details, depicting a somewhat gaunt man dressed in roughly Franciscan habit: a floor-length cowled robe, a rope ...

Defector’s own Giri Nathan is the father of an insanely great new baby and the author of an insanely great new book. Just as ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

Defector turns five next month. At last week’s offsite meetings, we celebrated that accomplishment and talked seriously about ...

John Wall announced his retirement from professional basketball on Tuesday, according to a tweet by ESPN’s Shams Charania.

For the first time in sports media history, Defector is now publishing a podcast about, get this, basketball. Nothing But Respect makes its Defector debut today, and to mark the occasion, my co-host ...

Some people are fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This ...

Musab Al-Debs has lost 75 percent of his body weight. The 14-year-old reportedly weighed 40 kilograms (88 pounds) before he ...

The Platonic ideal of a chameleon, at least for those of us with televisions, is a small, somewhat nervous-looking reptile ...