This is not to discredit the existence of some underlying tactical or strategic calculations, and it is absolutely not ...

In 2000, midway through the first season of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin started posting on a discussion forum on the site ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, ...

For months, I’ve seen Michigan basketball fans chortle ominously about the big personality of Yaxel Lendeborg, the ...

Sponge got their guitars stolen on Tuesday. I know this because the band’s publicist, Leo Lavoro, is going above and beyond ...

Defector will publish no written league-wide preview for the 2026-27 NBA season. Not even a cute, belatedly published one, ...

Like its sludgy predecessor and by design, Game 2 of the WNBA Finals was played as if in the mud. Clean dribbling of the ball ...

It’s unlikely that you spend much time thinking about the New Orleans Pelicans. However, as a New Orleans resident for whom ball is life, I am rather fixated on them. This team is far stranger than ...

A Weird Star is a classic place-setter in fiction. Put a Weird Star in the sky, even if it never has anything to do with the ...

Five years ago this fall, The Athletic published a feature in which NWSL players Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly opened up about their abusive former Portland Thorns coach, Paul Riley. The story ...

Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jordan Elliott was a surprise inactive for Sunday’s game, not traveling with the team. Head coach Robert Saleh told reporters only that Elliott was “dealing with ...

It’s funny, in hindsight, that the first two seasons of Jim Harbaugh’s Chargers tenure were considered disappointments. The ...