Gilbert Arenas has really gotta stay away from any card game that ain’t solitaire. The onetime Washington Wizards superstar, ...

This week, Luka Doncic took part in a time-honored tradition employed by many athletes before him: a news cycle about how ...

Perhaps you have given yourself over to Cucumber Season and are not paying attention to the dog days of the baseball season.

The Boston Red Sox encountered significant turbulence on a team flight to Minneapolis Sunday night. Big deal, you are saying, ...

Some people are fans of the New York Jets. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Jets. This 2025 Defector ...

I just read Leo Tolstoy’s 1870s novel Anna Karenina for the first time, and I am treating it like a real accomplishment. For basically all of my life, whenever I’ve heard reference to Tolstoy—OK, ...

I can still remember the sound of the dull thud, and the scream that came after. It was a tournament game, and our pitcher, Paul, was dealing. He always did, because he could throw 80 mph as a 13-year ...

If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film ...

A Hall of Fame case does not get built in the same way, or out of the same things, as a legend. There are plenty of Hall of ...

When scientists discover new prehistoric species, the fossils alone fail to conjure the creature in the flesh. It’s impossible to summon the entirety ancient shark from a single tooth, or some weird ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about ...

Folks with fancy degrees will tell you that kleptomania is a mental illness, but I bet those doctors never watched a San Diego Padres game. On a couple of occasions already this month, Kelsey has ...