Watching the Orlando Magic lose to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Thursday, in the Magic’s final game without their best ...

A part of being home for the holidays is trying to find something to do in the New Jersey suburbs, especially as someone who ...

Two species of tiny, drab, and otherwise forgettable fish—the blotchy brown snail darter and the pale, silvery delta ...

There is no news in England that does not have some microscopic yet tangential link to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle, and ...

I’m a punk who’s been in many mosh pits in my lifetime. Never have I experienced a media scrum that felt more like a mosh pit than the one surrounding Roki Sasaki’s agent Joel Wolfe at MLB’s Winter ...

We are now assured of 10 more days of Notre Dame in our faces, and ridiculously, that means another 10 days of hearing how the Irish not being tied to a conference like all the poor schools is an ...

While The Distraction is allowed to get as heavy as we want, the idea is mostly to do something goofy or stupid. I reminded ...

Any time you get Cleveland and Oklahoma City into the first sentence of your blog, you can be reasonably sure that no one from either coast of North America will read it all the way to the end. The ...

NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, through here. The ...

The best way to snap an athlete out of platitude autopilot in a press conference is to get them to vent about some technical complaint. Like everyone else, they have esoteric gripes about their ...

These days, the team sending me into wistful aunt mode most often is No. 1 UCLA, whom I last blogged two seasons ago, back ...

Los Angeles is burning. At least two people are dead and more than 80,000 people have evacuated their homes. The images and ...