Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Israel: Sometime ...

Following this week’s news that the brilliant writer Annie Dillard has died at age 81, some Defector staffers wrote about ...

Rory Dames—the women’s soccer coach currently banned for life from the NWSL, and who has been accused of abuse by more than a ...

There are few scenarios for a struggling and injury-riddled defense more nightmarish than the one the Detroit Lions’ unit had to face on Thursday night. Just four days after suffering through a 31-30 ...

On Thursday morning, USMNT manager Mauricio Pochettino announced his roster for a forthcoming quartet of games. The first thing that leaps out is that Christian Pulisic’s name is nowhere to be found.

Steve Belichick has resigned from his job as defensive coordinator at UNC following an investigation that found “certain ...

There is a cottage industry in publishing dedicated to understanding Donald Trump and his followers. Since his election in 2016, a spate of books have attempted to contextualize, deconstruct, and ...

This week on the show, Harry and I hung out with the hosts of the State of the League podcast for an hour of classic ...

Well, Pope Leo gave it a hell of a go, we’ll give him that. The former Father Bob, or something, kept the Chicago White Sox ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music and musical topics I’ve been fixated on recently. The last few ...

The NWSL received eight complaints about either sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, or retaliation during the first half of ...

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...