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Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...
Who says Tom Brady can’t have it all? On top of the conflict of interest that comes with being both a part-owner of the Las ...
Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best interior design advice column. Today, we have a tricky living-room layout, an ...
Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. Monday, on social media, ...
One strange reaction to the ongoing story of Kawhi Leonard’s no-show contract with the bizarre and now-failed startup Aspiration, and whether or not that represents salary cap circumvention, has been ...
If Terence “Bud” Crawford wants to make his case as the greatest non-heavyweight in the history of boxing, he gave himself a ...
Sometimes you just have to tip your cap to the universe. Before Sunday afternoon, I did not think it metaphysically possible for the New York Liberty’s season to get more unpleasant than it has been ...
The worst-managed Grand Tour in recent cycling history ended in a fittingly ramshackle manner on Sunday, with the final stage ...
Is Jérémy Doku’s trademark shimmy the most unstoppable move in the Premier League today? With the Kevin De Bruyne Cutback now beheading daisies in Serie A, I’m hard-pressed to even come up with a ...
I am always engaging in bouts of ill-advised optimism, and yet I too was gearing up to retread the same material about the Seattle Mariners that has dogged the team the past couple of years. Just 10 ...
They said it couldn’t be done. They said Aaron Rodgers surely couldn’t look as bereft of an inner life and the spark of humanity as he already does. Well, some truly awful technology has proven the ...
Bananas Foster describes itself as “the official non-profit of Banana Ball,” the barnstorming baseball league that hosts the ...