When Ray Ratto told you that you could get “hard mathematical reasons” for the Milwaukee Brewers’ inexplicable win streak ...

The first weekend of a new Premier League season is a time for optimism and for excitement. Even after an over-stuffed summer of soccer, which this year brought us the Club World Cup, the women’s ...

The climax of the new movie War of the Worlds features cheap-looking CGI’d clips of large robots standing next to large buildings, cut together with b-roll clips of B-2 stealth bombers in flight and ...

There’s this archetype in early 2000s teen movies where the protagonist finally trades the hairbrush she sings into from the safety of her bedroom for a real microphone. There’s a climactic ...

Nostalgia is the only reason why there’s a new Planet Hollywood in Times Square. But my nostalgia is different from everybody ...

Some people are fans of the Denver Broncos. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Denver Broncos. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews ...

Sounds like you want to do the Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Erik Agard and Kelsey Dixon, and ...

On a cool Sunday in November, a few days after Donald Trump’s re-election, Zohran Mamdani stood on a street corner in Jamaica, Queens, holding up a hastily drawn cardboard sign that read “DID YOU VOTE ...

It will become clear by the end of this sentence that I am not bragging about this, but there was a time when I felt like I ...

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Have you noticed how I’ve been yammering on about the month of August? If it’s not abundantly clear, I think August is a top-three month for inducing existential malaise. Sure, I will wish for August ...

This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference ...