Summer happens slowly, then all at once: longer nights, a drink on the porch followed by one more, the trickle then flood of ...

The United States will host the men’s World Cup in a little under one year. The vibe around the program could not possibly be ...

You can’t be a serious critic,” New York Times technology reporter Kevin Roose wrote on Tuesday, on Bluesky, about artificial ...

There are some things you can learn about fascism before you actually learn them during fascism, and there are others that ...

William Langewiesche died on Sunday. He was a damn titan. Langewiesche hit his stride in longform magazine journalism round ...

Only two teams have ever lost three consecutive Stanley Cup Finals, and they were both under special and antediluvian ...

The New York Yankees have now been shut out for three games in a row. This is in spite of mitigating factors such as facing the “Los Angeles” Angels of Anaheim and being newly Giancarlo Stanton’d up.

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

The Panthers are the reason your favorite team stinks. Not because they’ve ruined all those other teams’ records, though they have, but because Florida has successfully built what every front office ...

The Club World Cup kicked off over the weekend in the United States, and it’s been a wild ride so far, in the most derogatory way possible. It’s not so much about the games themselves, which have been ...

I guess you could read that headline as some sort of condemnation of the Oilers’ brass—that we’re at Game 6 of the Stanley ...

The San Francisco Giants are about to test the notion that one team’s misalignment is another team’s salvation. In fact, they ...