The fourth season of Amazon’s Reacher, which was based on Lee Child’s book Gone Tomorrow and set largely in Philadelphia, came to a close earlier this week. Defector’s elite Reacher Creature team was ...

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 ...

Alexander Ovechkin is probably the single most famous Russian athlete. He is also a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and not a particularly quiet or passive one. This, occasionally, has ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Moon got whacked. The Moon gets whacked a lot, honestly. You can just look at its beaten, cratered surface to see that.

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season Got something ...

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