You would think a miserable year would be inspirational for a true hater. In actuality, it was hard to hold onto petty ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

It’s the most wonderful time of year, and we at Defector are proud to bring back our series discussing some of the most, uh, ...

The NFL has announced that Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver DK Metcalf will be suspended for two games for an altercation ...

The Golden State Warriors have been positively meh-tastic this season, as if it has finally dawned on them that they really ...

Longtime elite gymnastics coach Al Fong has been suspended for physical and emotional misconduct by the U.S. Center for SafeSport, the organization created by Congress to investigate reports of sexual ...

Bari Weiss, the little smirking suck-up that is presently editor-in-chief of CBS News, intervened at the last minute Sunday ...

One of the less-invoked-but-still-annoying features of following sports is the idea that the future can be foretold based on ...

Can you ask someone to “close your eyes and watch” something? Just how private does a conversation need to be in order to upgrade from speaking “privately” to “very privately”? What does it mean for a ...

The Detroit Pistons are the toast of the NBA (positive) two short years after being made into toast by the NBA. Not only are ...

With only three goals in his first 14 games, Connor McDavid looked like he might be having one of those years where he ...

The North Carolina Tar Heels, fresh off of the cataclysmic first season of the Bill Belichick era, have decided that what ...