The year is 2022. Movies are finally back, Bad Bunny is taking over the world, and everyone is trying to become a member of ...

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

This is a short blog post in which you are going to encounter exhausting behavior from some fellas who will leave you pining for the restoration of our culture’s sense of shame. Texas beat Ohio State ...

The new Polymarket ad spot opens with LeBron James stepping onto an elevator and pushing a button labeled “SPORTS.” This is ...

What does it mean for an NFL team to be “AI-first?” It’s a question that football fans have been pondering ever since New York Jets Chief Analytics and Data Officer Iwao Fusillo revealed in May that ...

On Monday morning, the rapper Macklemore posted a lengthy Instagram statement alleging that New England Patriots owner Robert ...

How strange it is to watch a whole Slam and feel as though we learned almost nothing about the true power hierarchy at the ...

Ryan Garcia, the often troubled and always magnetic Californian who to this point in his career seemed unsure if he’d rather ...

There’s been a lot of clamoring for answers as to what happened in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s unusually messy divisional matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. And yet ...

The Video Assistant Referee is supposed to get everything right. This is an incredibly high standard to hold any sort of ...

You can always count on our Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Elijah Acquah, and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu.  Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our friends at AVCX, ...

If you’ve read Nicholas Russell, here or elsewhere, you’ve gathered that he is thoughtful, erudite, and extremely curious. In ...