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Defector started publishing blogs on September 10, 2020. We are somehow mere weeks away from our fifth anniversary. To celebrate, Defector is throwing a birthday party at Union Pool in Williamsburg on ...

Some people are fans of the Indianapolis. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Indianapolis Colts. This 2025 ...

Welcome to Ask The Book Doctor, a recurring series about books and reading them. The beautiful shiny phone is killing us. We ...

David Covucci is the editor-in-chief of FOIAball, a new publication utilizing public records to report on college football.

This piece was originally published on FOIAball, a new publication covering college football programs using this country’s robust Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) laws. If you like this story, ...

People keep throwing dildos onto the court at WNBA games, which is an incredibly wack trend even before you hear who is ...

There are only so many ways to describe a podcast, as regular readers of these little blogs already know. Because they are ...

Josh Naylor is slow. Not slow in the way that catchers are considered slow by default, or how some tall lanky guys seemingly ...

Tom Brady may be incredibly famous, obscenely successful, and (formerly?) outrageously handsome, but he has never been cool. This is a plain fact, one that Patriots fans like myself overlooked during ...

World Table Tennis staged a Grand Smash tournament in Las Vegas for the first time. Like the Grand Slams of tennis, the Grand ...

How do you respond to a guy who’s proven that he can crush your 103.9-mph fastball deep into left field for a four-bagger? Well, you don’t throw him your 103.9-mph fastball; you dissolve him with your ...