The Charlotte Hornets are puke. By win percentage they are one of the three or four worst teams in basketball, but unlike ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Drew’s off. Today, we’re ...

The Texas Longhorns defeated the Arizona State Sun Devils, 39-31, in a double-overtime thriller to advance to the semifinals ...

The good thing about hinging some degree of your mental health on working out is that you can almost always exercise; the bad ...

When I was in college, I declared Diet Coke my enemy. My reason was the only good reason to declare anything an enemy: Someone wrote a bad blog about it.  Some girl I didn’t know published an op-ed in ...

Happy new year to one and all. Make a resolution never to do any of these things. All descriptions are taken verbatim from ...

In the summer of 2023, I pitched a story about Jimmy Carter outliving his hospice welcome. Carter, the former president who ...

Hats are a relatively indiscriminate fashion choice. For starters, you can buy them at gas stations, when we all know the ...

This is what the Defector staff enjoyed eating in 2024.

Do you harbor secret creative dreams for the new year? Do you miss the way it felt to make things just for the sake of it, ...

It was a concerning year. WWE continued to enlarge and enrich itself even as it failed to honestly reckon with the legacy of ...

I stopped drinking alcohol in June 2023, a decision that was long overdue and has since improved my life ...