100 Foods To Throw In The Garbage, With Megan Greenwell
As someone who has not written a publishable book, I find the very idea of doing so extremely intimidating, to...
Sports
Defector Blogger Calls Aggregator Tweets “Pathetic” In Furious Takedown. Do You Agree?
I tried to get the r/tennis subreddit to stop linking to tweets from @TheTennisLetter, an account with more than 100,000...
Lakers’ Messy Coaching Search Revives The Scoopster Standoff Between Woj And Shams
Dan Hurley will not be the next coach of the Los Angeles Lakers. Days after ESPN's Adrian Wojnarowski broke his...
Bryan Woo Thinks Walks Are For Dogs And Babies
For health and safety reasons, I have been trying to ease myself away from White Sox baseball, and have chosen...
The Defector Tennis Desk Bids Adieu To The French Open
The French Open wrapped up this past weekend, with Iga Swiatek and Carlos Alcaraz taking home the trophies. Aside from...
Gambling For Life | Defector
Defector has partnered with Baseball Prospectus to bring you a taste of their work. They write good shit that we...
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...
