In 2018, the orca Tahlequah, or J35, made headlines for her tour of grief, in which she carried the dead body of her calf for ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

This is what the Defector staff enjoyed eating in 2024.

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 ...

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

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

Select portions of the college football world were outraged—big shock there—by Miami quarterback Cam Ward's decision to play ...

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