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Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s...
Is momentum real? Do past outcomes—the outcomes themselves, and not the processes that led to them—influence future results? This is...
This weekend's U.S. Olympic Diving Trials saw many dizzying dives from varying heights. Delaney Schnell won the individual women's 10-meter...
Forget the actual race. Look at the top six qualifiers at the Spanish Grand Prix, look at the top six...
New York magazine's Vulture section published a ranked list of Muppets movies last week; as several readers quickly observed, the...
There's a common myth about the origin of the marathon that you've probably heard at some point in your life....
One of my goals for 2024 is to consumer more culture. I am trying not to limit myself in this...
The first seven minutes of Game 6 were notable to me because, finally, both teams in the Stanley Cup Final...
Gervonta "Tank" Davis was so good last weekend he might’ve hurt his own career. Who’d want to fight this guy...
Through two matches at Euro 2024, England sits atop Group C, with a relatively comfortable path into the knockout round....
If you're a Pal-level subscriber at Defector, you get access to a premium weekday newsletter called The Cipher, which has...
Gathering a bunch of hormonal young artists in one place almost guarantees you a good mess. Unfortunately I speak from...
We are a few months into The Great Will Lewis Experiment at the Washington Post, and everything there is fucked....
Willie Mays, who died Tuesday at the richly merited old age of 93, was baseball itself, more than anyone else...
Under a weeping Dortmund sky, in front of a frothing crowd, on a stupid TV channel that nobody in the...