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

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Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a laboratory into the green expanse of a...

In the end, Lando Norris held his nerve and his lead. Three drivers came into the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix with a chance to win the championship, but it was Norris...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Today we are turning the column over to...

The last time I wrote about the Colts, it was following last year’s season-ending fumble/trick-play-meltdown combo that took them out of the playoff picture...

The CFL team in Saskatchewan is called the Roughriders, and today that name refers to the rough hangover that they’re going to have to ride out after Sunday...

Late in this week’s episode of The Distraction, after Drew, returning champion guest Rohan Nadkarni, and I talked about local politics, lamentable trends in...

Alex Shultz is a journalist based in Brooklyn. He’s a writer for Hard Reset, a newsletter about tech, labor, and power.

For about a decade at Manchester United there have been too many organizational resets, false dawns, and moments of humiliation to count. Grab any slice of...

Tom Brady’s post-playing career transition to “Weird Rich Guy” appears nearly complete. He announced on Tuesday that he had his old dead dog cloned. Lua,...

The Miami Dolphins have been given every reason to throw in the towel for the year. The general manager who assembled them, Chris Grier, is fired; their head...

Happy new year to one and all. Make a resolution never to do any of these things. All descriptions are taken verbatim from the U.S. Consumer Product Safety...

Stefan Fatsis is the author of four books: Unabridged, A Few Seconds of Panic, Word Freak, and Wild and Outside. He’s also a former cohost of “Hang...

There is only one possible silver lining to facing down a 31-point deficit in the fourth quarter of a football game, and that is the opportunity to get your...

Shohei Ohtani creates a world in which there are no stupid questions. Could there ever be a two-way player in the majors? Could he become an elite power hitter...

It has been almost two years since we launched this site, and since we have welcomed a lot of new people into the commentariat during that time, we figured now...

In our big NBA preview, I asked what it might look like if Victor Wembanyama adjusted his shot diet in order to replace a good chunk of his three-point...

All was well with the Philadelphia Eagles in the first half of Sunday’s game. The defense looked dominant again. The offense, which had struggled in...

I’ve seen enough of J.J. McCarthy. On a weekend where draftmates Bo Nix and Drake Maye assumed full command of the AFC, there was the Vikings quarterback,...

Zohran Mamdani is weeks away from becoming Mayor of New York City. As someone who does not live in the city but nevertheless has a lot of opinions about what...

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! The website will be a little sleepy for the next few days, so feel free to kick your feet up and relax in this open thread....

There’s no way to know exactly what goes on during a CBA negotiation between a sports league and its players’ union. All we have to rely on is information...

Some NBA games are starting at 11:00 p.m. ET. This is a new development coinciding with the league striking a new broadcast deal with NBC, which aired Tuesday...

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are...

John Fetterman’s just-released memoir, Unfettered, argues that he’s turned a corner and has everything under control. Fetterman was a “stubborn...

So after nine weeks of the NFL season, give or take a shared and very valid dread at the condemned warehouse that is the Cardinals-Cowboys Monday night...

So let’s investigate the blood-spattered scene of the crime, and by “crime” we mean the inevitable firing of Raiders offensive coordinator Chip Kelly,...

I grew up with three brothers. Several canon events in the ’90s shaped our dynamic to this day. There was a certain game of Risk. There was the day mom...

Lesley Ryder is a writer and a host covering the Chicago Red Stars. She co-created Gal Pal Sports, a platform that lives to make women’s sports fun for...

You can take your World Series and push it up your tush. The NFL delivers excitement similar to that of the high-stakes, edge-of-your-seat extra-inning...

Plan the parade. Kiss your sweetie on the mouth. Send a local street urchin to acquire a goose for the feast. The Chiefs’ bullshit is no longer working. For...

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The video of any great goal is a rich text that offers the viewer countless details to plunge into and enjoy. One of my favorite aspects are the players’...

Owned and operated by its writers, Defector is home to the internet’s sharpest sports and culture journalism. Between the obvious joy that Defector’s...

Jun 23, 2023 - No war crimes against civilians, Andrei Medvedev claims: “No Wagner fighters allowed themselves to do something illegal. If this had happened, this man would...

On Friday morning, when the barista at my local coffee shop leaned over the counter, wrinkled his face into a hideous demonic leer, and hissed “Ennnnnn …...

We learned in our reading yesterday that the Detroit Pistons are now a fully fledged power in the better-than-we-thought Eastern Conference, and well worth the...

For years, I have been telling people that if they love podcasts and want to support podcast creators—especially independent ones—they shouldn’t listen...

The Indiana Hoosiers are the last undefeated team in college football, and will have the No. 1 seed in the College Football Playoff thanks to their 13-10 win...

A New York City mayoral election is, definitionally, not anyone outside of the city’s business. That this year’s campaign, which ended in Zohran...

Three years ago, college football was rocked by a domestic violence scandal that ended with Ohio State firing assistant coach Zach Smith and suspending head...

Last Wednesday, newly minted CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss dropped the big news. As she walked through the CBS newsroom, Weiss looked into the camera,...

It is that time of year when college basketball programs fatten themselves up on inferior competition, which makes for a lot of games that can be safely...

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Nov 5, 2025 - In The Defector, Chris Hadfield presents a tense thriller about a Soviet test pilot defecting to America and getting into Area 51.

While the man inarguably does his research, we must assume that Al Michaels did not read this story when it ran two and a half weeks ago. If he had, he would...

This week on the show, Harry and I yapped about a number of different media-adjacent topics, basketball and otherwise. What began as a discussion of how we...

The vote looked like a funeral. Residents showed up to the council meeting dressed in black, carrying prop tombstones. One carried drooping flowers. “I feel...

Our old pal Mike Lombardi just can’t keep himself out of the news. Following two reports about how nobody in college football can stand working with him, he...

Ja’Marr Chase of the Cincinnati Bengals spit on Jalen Ramsey of the Pittsburgh Steelers. Not because he’d taken a swig of water to flush his mouth and then...

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Well, Notre Dame sure showed the Pop-Tarts Bowl, by cracky. If they can’t be in the big-money tournament, by gum, they’re not going to lose money playing...

I’ve always wondered what it must feel like for injured players who are forced to sit at home and watch their crappy teams. Do they suffer as much as the...

It wasn’t so long ago that the Washington Commanders were named after a racial slur. Thanks to Donald Trump, that slur might end up being the second-most...

Shots have been fired in the DMZ following the defection of another North Korean soldier.

Cleveland Guardians pitchers Emmanuel Clase and Luis Ortiz were placed on administrative leave in July while MLB investigated them for potentially violating...

A lot is happening in the world of artificial intelligence, and not a lot of it makes sense. We’re told that AI is the future of business, yet it is wildly...

A jury in Washington, D.C., Thursday found a local resident not guilty of misdemeanor assault, a charge he earned by spectacularly and hilariously chucking a...

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The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my...

G/O Media announced Monday that it has sold the remnants of Deadspin and, as part of the sale, would be laying off the entire staff.

It is once again time to get mad about a College Football Playoff bracket. Every year ESPN and its TV show, made by a committee that talks ball while on break...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s...

Jan 16, 2026 - Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch is attempting to offer a more positive message from the political right than her one-time shadow justice secretary.

The Pittsburgh Steelers lost to the Green Bay Packers on Sunday night, and they looked like crap the whole time. These awful outfits were meant to be...