There was no big Defector-style Professional Women’s Hockey League season preview last year, because I was (shameless plug) a little busy reporting this feature on the league’s formation. But it’s ...

Maybe this is my fault. For years I’ve been begging Kendrick Lamar to lighten up a little. To stop with the hip-hop savior ...

Wolverhampton Wanderers are a soccer club in sort of the same way that Silvio Dante’s Bada Bing was an adult entertainment ...

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

Have you ever found yourself reading an article, and needing to stop halfway through in order to ask yourself an important ...

This is the time of year when the best, biggest, and most ambitious movies come out. Not Oscar season, but rather that ...

The NWSL Championship could not have worked out better for the league. The best team in the league, the Orlando Pride, beat ...

For everything astonishing about the average Saquon Barkley touchdown run, the most uncanny is how natural it all looks. It is not, of course; on the merits, and even by the absurd standards for this ...

The squirting cucumber Ecballium—not to be confused with the exploding cucumber Cyclanthera—is not a showy plant. It meanders ...

A few weeks ago, after a grindhouse 94-90 win against the Pacers, second-year Orlando guard Anthony Black was asked about his ...

Welcome to Perfectly Fine Dinner Party Club, a cooking and hosting column from Libby Watson, who likes to throw dinner ...

The Commanders had what looked like a choice match-up at home against Cooper Rush and the three-win Cowboys on Sunday—a gift ...