For all of his flaws as a manager, and there are plenty, José Mourinho always provides clubs the full José Mourinho Experience. The Special One instantly becomes the center of attention wherever he ...
If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably already know the general contours of Defector’s origin story. I’m one of a handful of co-owners who joined the company after it was founded, so my ...
Have a seat and solve our Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Hanh Huynh and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Hanh is a bankruptcy attorney who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his wife and two ...
The beauty of college football is that there are so many teams, and so many bad coaches, that inevitably, a play that would otherwise have a one in a billion chance of happening actually has quite a ...
Over the weekend, The New York Times published an investigation into DraftKings. The upshot of the investigation is that this obviously exploitative and profit-driven company exploits its customers in ...
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.
If you found yourself tuning in late for Sunday’s matchup between the Eagles and Titans in Nashville, you may have had a ...
Caleb Williams was going to score a touchdown. Anyone watching from home, or inside of a thoroughly drenched Soldier Field, knew it was about to happen. The Chicago Bears were trailing Minnesota by an ...
Following this week’s news that the brilliant writer Annie Dillard has died at age 81, some Defector staffers wrote about ...
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...
On Monday morning, the rapper Macklemore posted a lengthy Instagram statement alleging that New England Patriots owner Robert ...
Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...
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