The National Football League rarely displays a sense of humor on any topic, largely because the people who run the sport are ...

The first two annual football rivalries that I can remember haven’t occurred for years now. In Worcester, where I grew up, St ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic ...

This WNBA playoff preview is dedicated to those without a shoe deal—the X-factors, the microwave scorers, the glue gals. I’ve ...

Shohei Ohtani is the first player in baseball history. It doesn’t matter how you complete that sentence; it has a solid ...

Sunset Rubdown was a shooting star. The band began as a solo project for Spencer Krug’s bedroom recordings, and expanded into one of the weirdest, densest, most essential bands of the late 2000s. As ...

It is the nature of a podcast to unravel, or anyway it’s mostly the way that ours works. We start out trying to be normal, ...

Victor Robles was hit by a Luis Gil pitch, and jogged at the mound—to give Gil a half-hug. After a couple of walks and ...

As reported by ESPN, the University of Tennessee, as part of its future plans for revenue-sharing with players in 2025, will ...

With a seat left empty on the NBA Today desk after Adrian Wojnarowski's sudden resignation on Wednesday, ESPN tapped a handful of its scoopsters in others sports to fill in. NFL insider Adam Schefter ...

NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the ...

Nightbitch is billed as a film about an overburdened stay-at-home mom who turns into a dog at night in order to free herself ...