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Utah Hockey Must Seize Howler The Yeti For Their Own Nefarious Purposes
It's pretty ironic that the current Colorado Avalanche mascot, Bernie the St. Bernard, is described by the team as "a...
Bill Anders First Saw The Earth
The Blue Marble showed the Earth in all its vitality, a living, changing thing. The Pale Blue Dot showed the...
Carlos Alcaraz Is Diamonds Under Pressure
The highlights don't always tell the story, though it is hard to shake what I saw in the second game...
Metro-North Is My North Star
My dad had his commute down to a science. It was the early 1980s and he was working in what...
A €4.5 Million Home Where We Can Live in Opulent Disgust
I feel a special affinity with the Irish. I am probably at least part Irish based on my skin, and...
Conner O’Malley’s New Special Exposes The Dark Heart Of Techno-Optimism
Silicon Valley goblin Marc Andreessen begins his “Techno-Optimist Manifesto” with an epigraph from Thomas Edison: “There’s a way to do...
Carlos Alcaraz Conquers Jannik Sinner In Choppy Ninth Installment Of The Best Rivalry In Men’s Tennis
Carlos Alcaraz outlasted Jannik Sinner to reach the French Open final with a five-set, 2-6, 6-3, 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 win...
Garlic Shrimp And Slovenian Timelords, With Ray Ratto
Over the past week, I've found it difficult to tell whether I'm excited for the NBA Finals or just kind...
An Observation About ‘Godzilla Minus One’
If you're a Pal-level subscriber at Defector, you get access to a premium weekday newsletter called The Cipher, which has...
Olympian Helen Stephens Suffered Through An Anti-Queer Panic That Still Reverberates
This article is based on research from The Other Olympians: Fascism, Queerness, and the Making of Modern Sports, available for...
There Are No Easy Solutions For The Second-Driver Conundrum
Thanks to Formula 1's lack of tampering regulations, every part of the season is silly season. It's another level of...
‘Jeopardy!’ Contestants Still Don’t Know Anything About Sports
You might wanna sit down for this, but Jeopardy! contestants still don’t know anything about sports. Spoiler alert for tonight's...
MLB Makes A Convenient Example Of Several Gambling Bozos
There are decisions you can make when you're 23 years old that will define the entire rest of your life,...
Feds Accuse America’s Weirdest Media Company Of Being A Money-Laundering Front For The Falun Gong
On Monday, the U.S. Department of Justice announced that it had arrested Weidong Guan, the CFO of an international newspaper...
