Deal With It | Defector
It's in the nature of really good basketball teams to seem inevitable. It's not really in basketball's nature to let...
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Sam Altman’s Scarlett Johansson Whoopsie Is The True Future Of AI
Give OpenAI CEO Sam Altman this much credit: I did not think he had the capacity to surprise. Among the...
Anoint Yourself, Dammit! | Defector
Let it not be said that the Boston Celtics are bad at basketball. They are, in fact, pretty good! Thursday...
Xavi, Who Quit And Then Un-Quit And Then Was Maybe Gonna Get Fired, Is Now Fired
Barcelona club president Joan Laporta fired manager Xavi Hernández on Friday, a little over a week after reports surfaced Laporta's...
Programming Notes | Defector
Hello! I hope you are making preparations for the the long holiday weekend. Before you go, I have some precious...
Ademola Lookman’s Time Has Finally Come
There are as many different career trajectories in soccer as there are individual players. Nonetheless, certain paths share some overarching...
Please Do Not Strive For Documentary Realism In A Movie (Spoiler Alert) Where A Huge Worm Bursts Out Of A Man’s Eye-Socket
I'm not going to look this up, but I assume there have been far fewer found-footage-style films in the romantic...
Staying On Paul Schrader’s Good Side, With Stephen Rodrick
At some level, I imagine that a person would have to be a good hang to write a good magazine...
The Small Mercury Are Big Fun
Last week, after the Mercury opened their season at home with a hard-fought loss to the Aces, a reporter asked...
Whomst Has Brought The Ass?
On Wednesday morning Minnesota Governor Tim Walz took the bold political step of declaring May 22, 2024 as "WOLVES BACK...
For Once, The Knicks Can Avoid An Offseason Existential Crisis
Back in December, Las Vegas Aces coach Becky Hammon appeared on an ESPN basketball shouting program to make a deflating...
Manchester City Is Power | Defector
In lieu of a true last-day nail-biter for the ages, the kind that briefly seemed possible but quickly flickered out,...
What Makes Hockey Hockey? | Defector
Every museum should have a little nook for the jocks. That's what I decided at the very end of my...
The Titans Schedule Is Perfect, No Notes (But Here Are Some Notes, Anyway)
This is the perfect waiting in the weeds schedule. The Titans go into this season with little to no expectation...
On The Caitlin Clark Beat, Everyone’s Plotting
INDIANAPOLIS — In 49 states, it’s just basketball … and in this state, it's also just basketball. That's what Caitlin Clark...
