Motherfucking Owen got me so good. Remember the intern intro blog last year where Owen made a goofy little remark about there ...

Viewed from one angle, Tom Thibodeau losing his job as head coach of the New York Knicks, a development reported this ...

We often talk about baseball games as a metric for where we are, and we’re literally in the first inning,” one of the ...

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

The Benham Brothers think they are very funny and very smart. They are 50-year-old tall, blonde, identical twins who have a ...

I am a bit sleep-deprived on my first day of work. I certainly could have slept last night—my excitement for the dream of interning here was outweighed by Amtrak-induced exhaustion. But unfortunately ...

Spend enough time watching the best chess players in the world play, and even a chess amateur will pick up on something: ...

Here’s a story in two parts, both of which will be crushingly familiar to you. The main character of our tale is Iowa (uh oh) ...

The Kansas City Royals advised minor-leaguer Jac Caglianone, their first pick in the 2024 draft and top overall prospect, ...

By sheer power of will, determination, and lots and lots and lots of money, FIFA is looking to turn the previously irrelevant ...

I thought the game I attended last Tuesday was just about the smoothest basketball any team could play, when the reigning ...

Block off some time for our Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Mat Holmes and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu.