It can be easy, as a sports fan and a blogger, to focus on the times players and teams screw up. Easy, and satisfying too.

It is clear what we most need to happen in the sure-to-be-bastardized 2025 baseball season, and that is for the Tampa Bay ...

Disgraced former NFL coach Jon Gruden has spent the last few years desperately trying to return to his craft. Gruden lost his ...

I don’t care that he left Sacramento to go to high school in bullshit Southern California, then played in college for the ...

There is something bleakly inspiring about the fact that despite the total saturation of sports culture with the brand and ...

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

What exactly is the Utah Hockey Club? I can give you the obvious answers: They’re an NHL team playing its first season in ...

The hits keep coming for Premier League referee and self-proclaimed Liverpool hater David Coote. After the leak of a video ...

For me, seeing a screen in a theater is like seeing a bank logo at Pride. We don’t need that here! This space is about living ...

Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from ...

However you measure the longterm efficacy of the NBA’s in-season tournament (we recommend this as a helpful road sign), last ...

Defector is looking to hire editorial interns for the summer of 2025. Wow! That could be you! How could it be you? I am here ...