At some point early in the third quarter of Thursday night’s great game between the Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens, ...

More than Freddie Freeman or Francisco Lindor or those Yankee jamokes who tried to rip off Mookie Betts’s hand, I will ...

An electoral defeat like the one just suffered by Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party is guaranteed to keep the ...

Going online used to be an event. My early online experience was probably similar to many of our old millennial readers like me: I went into the house’s Computer Room, booted up the PC, waited the ...

It’s a beautiful Friday in autumn and I am here to share some drama with all of you: the story of two big, beautiful female elephants whose long-simmering resentments boiled over into an all-out brawl ...

The early stages of each new NBA season are a time for widespread optimism and excitement. Many young players around the league will further establish themselves among the sport's elite: Paolo ...

There are times when the lag between when we record The Distraction (on Tuesday mornings) and when it goes up (the first ...

Each weekday, I send out a newsletter called The Cipher to Defector Pal-level subscribers, which has a recap of the blog day, ...

We have a pretty good idea that neither the Baltimore Ravens nor Cincinnati Bengals are going to the Super Bowl, if only because they’re both far too fun to survive the difficult December/January ...

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

I stood on an empty stretch of the Alaska Highway and squinted north as the sky darkened. I had parked a couple of miles away ...

In Quincy, the 2018 documentary meant to capture the totality of Quincy Jones’s contributions to the last 70-plus years of ...