On July 13, California state Attorney General Rob Bonta announced that he would lead a 12-state coalition in mounting a supposedly bold legal challenge to the proposed Paramount–Warner Bros. Discovery ...

Laz Díaz has had enough of baseball. The veteran umpire will wrap up a three-decade career this week, will hang up the mask and the chest protector, and will bid good riddance to the sport. Major ...

For all of his flaws as a manager, and there are plenty, José Mourinho always provides clubs the full José Mourinho Experience. The Special One instantly becomes the center of attention wherever he ...

It is generally agreed that the Miami Dolphins are the worst team in professional football not named the Ottawa Redblacks. In ...

If you’re a regular reader of this blog, you probably already know the general contours of Defector’s origin story. I’m one of a handful of co-owners who joined the company after it was founded, so my ...

Have a seat and solve our Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Hanh Huynh and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Hanh is a bankruptcy attorney who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his wife and two ...

Over the weekend, The New York Times published an investigation into DraftKings. The upshot of the investigation is that this obviously exploitative and profit-driven company exploits its customers in ...

If you found yourself tuning in late for Sunday’s matchup between the Eagles and Titans in Nashville, you may have had a ...

Caleb Williams was going to score a touchdown. Anyone watching from home, or inside of a thoroughly drenched Soldier Field, knew it was about to happen. The Chicago Bears were trailing Minnesota by an ...

The beauty of college football is that there are so many teams, and so many bad coaches, that inevitably, a play that would otherwise have a one in a billion chance of happening actually has quite a ...

On Monday morning, the rapper Macklemore posted a lengthy Instagram statement alleging that New England Patriots owner Robert ...

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