The first two annual football rivalries that I can remember haven’t occurred for years now. In Worcester, where I grew up, St ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic ...

This WNBA playoff preview is dedicated to those without a shoe deal—the X-factors, the microwave scorers, the glue gals. I’ve ...

Shohei Ohtani is the first player in baseball history. It doesn’t matter how you complete that sentence; it has a solid ...

It is the nature of a podcast to unravel, or anyway it’s mostly the way that ours works. We start out trying to be normal, ...

Victor Robles was hit by a Luis Gil pitch, and jogged at the mound—to give Gil a half-hug. After a couple of walks and ...

As reported by ESPN, the University of Tennessee, as part of its future plans for revenue-sharing with players in 2025, will ...

NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the ...

When you think about it, it’s a bit strange that the best team in the world added the best player in the world, thereby ...