Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

UMass and UConn were all set up for the big one. The two programs played 77 times before, but this was the first time that a ...

Sunday night’s game between the Oklahoma City Thunder and Houston Rockets, one of the best of the regular season, hit maximal ...

David Lovelace, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Geology Museum, remembered a rock the size ...

I hate to say it, but the biggest laugh in James Acaster’s new special, Hecklers Welcome, comes from a heckle. Obviously. The ...

This is the time of year when the best, biggest, and most ambitious movies come out. Not Oscar season, but rather that ...

All the euphoria over the glorious return of Jameis Winston during his giddy and maximalist Monday Night Football performance seemed to forget the helpless victims of Jameis Being Jameis—starting with ...

At the time of writing, on Dec. 2, 2024, Liverpool is nine points clear at the top of the Premier League table. The Pool Boys ...

The hub, typically a center brutish enough to dislodge trailing defenders with a screen but adept enough with the rock to ...

Cleveland loves to immortalize its sports heroes. The street behind the left-field bleachers at the Guardians’ ballpark was ...

Justin Tucker sat encased in a football players’ cape and hidden under a hood, alone with his thoughts and the millions of ...

It's almost therapeutic to watch Aaron Rodgers eat shit week after week. The preceding months of smugness, sneers, and hack ...