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

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!

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...