Brian Evenson’s first book, a story collection titled Altmann’s Tongue, came out in 1994. It was not widely reviewed. The few ...

In 2000, midway through the first season of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin started posting on a discussion forum on the site ...

This is not to discredit the existence of some underlying tactical or strategic calculations, and it is absolutely not ...

Sponge got their guitars stolen on Tuesday. I know this because the band’s publicist, Leo Lavoro, is going above and beyond ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, ...

Defector will publish no written league-wide preview for the 2026-27 NBA season. Not even a cute, belatedly published one, ...

For months, I’ve seen Michigan basketball fans chortle ominously about the big personality of Yaxel Lendeborg, the ...

It’s unlikely that you spend much time thinking about the New Orleans Pelicans. However, as a New Orleans resident for whom ball is life, I am rather fixated on them. This team is far stranger than ...

Like its sludgy predecessor and by design, Game 2 of the WNBA Finals was played as if in the mud. Clean dribbling of the ball ...

Tennessee Titans defensive tackle Jordan Elliott was a surprise inactive for Sunday’s game, not traveling with the team. Head coach Robert Saleh told reporters only that Elliott was “dealing with ...

On this week’s episode of Nothing But Respect, the discerning listener can hear me and Harry, both of whom are recovering from minor illnesses, losing our voices over the course of an hour and a half.

Five years ago this fall, The Athletic published a feature in which NWSL players Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly opened up about their abusive former Portland Thorns coach, Paul Riley. The story ...