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 ...

Golden State Warriors fans come by their belief in the occult honestly. They have been mesmerized by the varied and ...

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

It is not very difficult to learn true and useful things about the new congestion pricing toll system that New York City ...

For the price of $20 per month, select DraftKings customers in New York can now enroll in a program that the company is ...

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

Sheel Seidler, the widow of former Padres chairman Peter Seidler, filed a complaint against two of the latter’s brothers over ...

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

In that gray purgatory that was the week between Christmas and New Year’s, a debate arose on my feeds: When is a luxury ...