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

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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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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 and bad. Today is a good day; I haven’t even needed a patch today.

Reading or watching the news has become a real nightmare for me, as I imagine it must be for anyone reading this. Each day seems to bring some new horror or tragedy, and if the non-stop procession of ...

The best pitchers in baseball were going to pitch on the same day! In the same place! Walking distance from my home! On a day I didn’t have to work! This dream confluence would give me a chance to ...

The Pacers and Thunder have constructed a series that has put the lie to the notion that there are insurmountable leads in ...

When it comes to my daughter, I try to live in the moment. I stumbled into this paradigm in March of 2023, when Nora was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder at the age of 2. Nora is 4 now—a fiery, ...

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

We’ve all been there. Your buddy and former editor-in-chief Megan Greenwell has an acclaimed new book about the predatory ...