The fourth season of Amazon’s Reacher, which was based on Lee Child’s book Gone Tomorrow and set largely in Philadelphia, came to a close earlier this week. Defector’s elite Reacher Creature team was ...

Alexander Ovechkin is probably the single most famous Russian athlete. He is also a supporter of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and not a particularly quiet or passive one. This, occasionally, has ...

There are few scenarios for a struggling and injury-riddled defense more nightmarish than the one the Detroit Lions’ unit had to face on Thursday night. Just four days after suffering through a 31-30 ...

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Israel: Sometime ...

On Thursday morning, USMNT manager Mauricio Pochettino announced his roster for a forthcoming quartet of games. The first thing that leaps out is that Christian Pulisic’s name is nowhere to be found.

Following this week’s news that the brilliant writer Annie Dillard has died at age 81, some Defector staffers wrote about ...

There is a cottage industry in publishing dedicated to understanding Donald Trump and his followers. Since his election in 2016, a spate of books have attempted to contextualize, deconstruct, and ...

Well, Pope Leo gave it a hell of a go, we’ll give him that. The former Father Bob, or something, kept the Chicago White Sox ...

This week on the show, Harry and I hung out with the hosts of the State of the League podcast for an hour of classic ...

Rory Dames—the women’s soccer coach currently banned for life from the NWSL, and who has been accused of abuse by more than a ...

The NWSL received eight complaints about either sexual misconduct, sexual harassment, or retaliation during the first half of ...

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...