The inevitable has happened. The Phoenix Suns have traded Kevin Durant to the Houston Rockets, as first reported by Shams ...

A week before I was hired at Defector, I decided to quit vaping. This was kind of a while ago now, but I still have good days ...

For the first time in American sports history, a team has been sold on an 11-figure valuation. News broke Wednesday that the ...

On Thursday night the Los Angeles Dodgers and San Diego Padres, who do not like each other, completed a four-game series in ...

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True heat—the overwhelming hot wall that hits you the minute you step out of a door, that takes your breath and makes it into ...

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 ...

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

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

Fifty years ago, the hot comedy skit was Saturday Night Live’s “Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead!”, a play on the ...

There was a sequence in the fourth quarter of Game 5 Monday night where I very nearly chewed through my shirt collar. I ...