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

The Detroit Pistons are the best team in the Eastern Conference and the hottest team in the NBA, which is probably not what ...

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 books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking ...

Before he’d even entered a legit NHL game, Logan Cooley made an exciting first impression on me. Playing a 2023 preseason ...

The Phoenix Mercury have one of the best nicknames in sports. It’s classical, referring to the Roman god of, among other ...

Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2026. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here ...

For about a decade at Manchester United there have been too many organizational resets, false dawns, and moments of ...

The Charlotte Hornets are once again miserable crud. At 4–13, they are down there sloshing in the fermented trash juice of ...

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

Apparently someone at MLB headquarters turned the stove on and accidentally left it going. On Sunday, ESPN’s Jeff Passan ...

If current trends continue, historians will look back on Nov. 2, 2025, with consternation and confusion. Entire careers of PhD candidates at major universities will be devoted to the mystery of this ...

This article has been adapted from a piece published Nov. 16 on the author’s Substack page. Last week, after masked settlers torched a mosque in Salfit, set fire to Palestinian trucks in Huwara, and ...