It is Thanksgiving all across these United States, but it wasn’t until last weekend that I really felt it. I can read a ...

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

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. Snacks are in the fridge!

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the ...

Chavez, a marine mammal ecologist at the University of Rhode Island, spotted a leopard seal on an ice floe. Borras-Chavez was ...

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

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 goes on there, I want his administration ...

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

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 notice both for what they’ve already ...

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 ...

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

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