Ballhalla Is A Mindset | Defector
The team didn’t win, but everyone stayed. It wasn’t even their building. And still, most of the Golden State Valkyries...
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Management Secrets Of Assholes, And Five Years Of Defector
There were no real expectations when we launched Defector, five years and one day ago. Plenty of planning went into...
The Critic Counts | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also...
The Tour Is Theirs | Defector
Men’s tennis is just Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz hurtling toward one another, with loud and incandescent results. Since Sinner...
I Hurt My Back | Defector
I can't remember exactly what I was doing when it happened. The morning had started normally enough. It was a...
Butlerian Jihad Now | Defector
Maybe some things should not be simulated.That is my takeaway—one of them, anyway—from a Tuesday New York Times story by...
TNT Sports Airs Guerrilla Marketing For Worker-Owned Website That Isn’t Defector
It wasn't my intent to attend back-to-back Phillies-Mets games. Over the past month there had been two separate, developing conversations...
The Defector Era Of ‘Nothing But Respect’ Is Here, With Maitreyi Anantharaman And David Roth
For the first time in sports media history, Defector is now publishing a podcast about, get this, basketball. Nothing But...
Months, Ranked | Defector
Have you noticed how I've been yammering on about the month of August? If it's not abundantly clear, I think...
Just A Tip | Defector
Once upon a time, in a different life, I was tasked with running a blog vertical devoted entirely to help...
Hulk Hogan Is Dead | Defector
Terry Bollea died on Thursday. The former professional wrestler was 71 years old. According to his longtime manager, Bollea died...
Rich Hill Is BACK | Defector
On May 21, Defector's Ray Ratto informed you that it was time to start the "Rich Hill is BACK" countdown....
Finding Henri Rousseau | Defector
I can't remember exactly what I was thinking about when I first saw them. It was one of those summer...
We Won A Grant | Defector
Keen observers of the independent media space might be aware that we at Defector have done some informal consulting over...
Defector Reads A Baseball Book
Sometimes you find yourself remembering a book. Such was the case a few weeks ago, when someone dropped this tweet into our...
