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 ...

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 ...

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

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

Ryan Garcia, the often troubled and always magnetic Californian who to this point in his career seemed unsure if he’d rather ...