I know how the faint praise goes, but a lot of the important things Angel Reese does actually do show up in…

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You might have heard by now of the scientist in Russia, 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, who died on Oct. 2 of…

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

Not a lot of owners would have let Mike Elias do what he has done with the Baltimore Orioles. This…

The Tampa Bay Rays–New York Yankees ALDS matchup revealed some intriguing eccentricities of each team’s respective ballpark. For example, the…

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently. For the longest…

Marc Edelman has spent much of the last two decades fighting to help college athletes get fairly compensated for their…

We are zooming ahead to the very end of Wednesday night’s semifinal game between the New York Liberty and Atlanta…

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family life. Have…

I have tried over the past year and change to find a succinct way to tell this story and instead…