In the immortal words of Comrade Xu, “There’s no need to overcomplicate things.” In discussing how the Philadelphia Phillies failed to beat the Los Angeles Thanos, that simple sentence explained in ...

At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon ...

One month after mass protests against the presence of the Israel–Premier Tech team at the Vuelta a España brought the race to ...

For the second game in a row, the Milwaukee Brewers allowed a handful of first-inning runs en route to a loss. Unlike in Wednesday’s close and competitive 4-3 defeat in Game 3, the Brewers in Game 4 ...

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications, these aren’t even written by ...

Thursday was not a great night to be a current or former Red Wings goaltender. John Gibson, traded for this summer to solve ...

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. Ray: Only a few ...

I just assume that no one is paying attention to anything I say. It makes the anxiety easier to manage, and is mostly correct ...

When the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would headline this season’s Super Bowl halftime show, it made all the sense in the ...

On paper, all the havoc of a basketball game becomes something neat and unfeeling. However spiritually untrue it seems, this is actually true: In Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, there was only one lead ...

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

One of the motivations for the new Champions League format, which debuted in the men’s game last season and now has come to ...