The Seattle Mariners have reached the stage of a busted season where they are just hunting around for reasons to smile. This ...

It feels like the World Cup just ended, and yet somehow, some way, the Premier League is already back. England’s top flight ...

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the ...

Frances Tiafoe’s tennis season is just getting started. North American hard court summer is his wake-up. I once asked him if ...

For most women who play baseball in the United States, playing America’s pastime in a professional league has been little ...

People sometimes wonder what editors do. It’s a fair question to ask, given how difficult it is to read a column or blog post ...

Before Tadej Pogacar became a hypertuned killer on a bike, before he won any of his record-tying five Tours de France, before ...

Some people are fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Los Angeles Chargers. This 2026 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all ...

Olivia Miles made her first bucket of Wednesday night’s game against the Golden State Valkyries early in the first quarter.

We had moderate hopes for Tugboat Wilkinson in his major-league debut, just because his nickname and carriage merge so ...

Pittsburgh had a hell of a winter storm in January, with more than a foot of snow, and freezing temperatures that created ...