Arrival Of The Mack | Defector
Hockey—the actual sport, played with sticks and a puck, on ice—is going away for a while. That is, unfortunately, one...
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Momentum Or The Moment? | Defector
Is momentum real? Do past outcomes—the outcomes themselves, and not the processes that led to them—influence future results? This is...
The Oilers Are Astonishing | Defector
The first seven minutes of Game 6 were notable to me because, finally, both teams in the Stanley Cup Final...
Journalism Is Activism | Defector
We are a few months into The Great Will Lewis Experiment at the Washington Post, and everything there is fucked....
Willie Mays Was Baseball | Defector
Willie Mays, who died Tuesday at the richly merited old age of 93, was baseball itself, more than anyone else...
Turkey-Georgia Was Perfect | Defector
Under a weeping Dortmund sky, in front of a frothing crowd, on a stupid TV channel that nobody in the...
Two Bad Neighbors | Defector
"You know what I want?" Martha-Ann Alito asked a stranger who had briefly flattered her at a dinner for the...
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...
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...
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...
Anoint Yourself, Dammit! | Defector
Let it not be said that the Boston Celtics are bad at basketball. They are, in fact, pretty good! Thursday...
Programming Notes | Defector
Hello! I hope you are making preparations for the the long holiday weekend. Before you go, I have some precious...
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...
