Earlier this summer, ESPN made the confounding and ultimately disastrous choice to build its NBA Finals broadcasts around the ...

Late in this week’s episode of The Distraction, after Drew, returning champion guest Rohan Nadkarni, and I talked about local ...

Have you watched the Miami Heat this season? They’re doing weird stuff, and it’s mostly working. Weeks after the Grizzlies ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

Dallas Cowboys defensive end Marshawn Kneeland died by suicide on Thursday in Texas, according to law enforcement. He was 24 ...

Disney is bouncing out of its gambling partnership with Penn Entertainment, the operator behind the crummy ESPN Bet ...

To say Deliver Me From Nowhere isn’t for everybody is to exaggerate its actual appeal. The Bruce Springsteen biopic isn’t ...

A jury in Washington, D.C. today found a local resident not guilty of misdemeanor assault, a charge he earned by ...

Of all of the top teams in Europe, Barcelona under manager Hansi Flick is the most addicted to the offside trap. The ...

When Zohran Mamdani upset Andrew Cuomo to win the New York City Democratic mayoral primary in June, it led to a lot of histrionics. The usual fear tactics against a young Muslim democratic socialist ...

Earlier this year, on a cold Sunday in January, I walked into an antique store in a Washington D.C. suburb. When I go to a ...

New York City has Mamdani fever! Our new mayor-elect made it official on Tuesday, after a savvy final push where Zohran spent ...