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Lauren Theisen

Those Were Two Great Days To Root For The Reds

Dave McKenna

Politics

Pat Robertson, Anti-Gaming Crusader And Horse Racing Enthusiast, Is Dead

Patrick Redford

JERSEY CITY, NJ - JUNE 8: The sun is shrouded as it rises in a smokey sky behind the Empire State Building, Chrysler Building and One Vanderbilt in New York City on June 8, 2023, as seen from Jersey City, New Jersey. (Photo by Gary Hershorn/Getty Images)

Climate

It’s All The Same Fire

David Roth

LIV Golf CEO Greg Norman at a press conference during the LIV event in Adelaide, Australia, in April of 2023.

Podcasts

The Money Will Not Shut Up, With Ray Ratto

Tom Ley

Life's Rich Pageant

Paul Pierce Traps Kevin Garnett In Grim Men’s Livestream

Staff Writer
Find me on Signal @DefectorChris.19

Chris Thompson

Fans hang signs at Oakland Coliseum calling for John Fisher to sell the Athletics.

John Fisher’s Lackeys Eat Shit In Contentious Stadium Financing Hearing, May Win Anyway

Giri Nathan

Tennis

I Could Stare At The Roland Garros Clay All Day

A rainbow Red Sox logo on the video board at Fenway Park

No Straights At Pride Night

Luis Paez-Pumar

Nikola Jokic #15 of the Denver Nuggets grabs the rebound during Game Three of the 2023 NBA Finals against the Miami Heat on June 7, 2023 at Kaseya Center in Miami, Florida.

The Nuggets Were Just Too Damn Big

PGA Tour commissioner Jay Monahan smiles.

Golf

The PGA Tour’s High Ground Was Just A Bargaining Position

DeChambeau begins his interview with Collins, minutes before he gets to the 9/11 stuff

The LIV-PGA Shit-Eating Tour Is A Marvel To Behold

Jae Towle Vieira [they/them] works as a producer for Normal Gossip. Their fiction has been published in The Normal School, New England Review, Carve Magazine, Passages North, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere.

Jae Towle Vieira

Normal Gossip logo with cartoon characters gossiping

Vibesmithing Via Committee

Albert Burneko

Lionel Messi Chooses Inter Miami

Steve Clemons screams at a climate activist

Media Meltdowns

Semafor Shithead Screams At Climate Activists

Dan McQuade was a founding member of Defector. He died in January 2026.

Dan McQuade

Tik Tok screenshots of "Livvy Rizzed Baby Gronk"

This Is So Stupid

Livvy Rizzing Up Baby Gronk, Explained

Maitreyi Anantharaman

Dana Evans #11 of the Chicago Sky reacts against the Washington Mystics at Wintrust Arena on May 26, 2023 in Chicago, Illinois.

WNBA

The Chicago Sky Taught Me It Was OK To Win Now

Paul Moller's very first prototype, the M200X, is a sort of vertical-takeoff flying saucer.

Journalismism

It’s Time To Show Ship

Alek Manoah #6 of the Toronto Blue Jays watches recording on the iPad in the dugout after getting pulled from the game in the first inning against the Houston Astros in their MLB game at the Rogers Centre on June 5, 2023 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Alek Manoah Blew His Way Out Of The Majors

A rainbow over a mostly empty Oakland Coliseum.

The Athletics’ Las Vegas Dreams Are At Least Temporarily On Hold

Gollum looks around; where are the buttholes?

Video Games

The Video Game Where You Play As A Tortured Wretch Isn’t Very Fun

Israel Daramola

A scoreboard at the LIV Golf event at Broken Arrow, Oklahoma on May 13.

The PGA Tour Has Suddenly Merged With LIV Golf

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

Drew Magary

WUHAN, CHINA - NOVEMBER 23: (CHINA OUT) Zhang Juncai, one of China's tallest men, who measures 2.42 metres in height, walks through the streets on November 23, 2004 in Wuhan, China. Zhang, from Shanxi province, is in Wuhan to seek treatment for his overweight problem. (Photo by China Pix/Getty Images) *** Local Caption *** Zhang Juncai

Funbag

The World Still Isn’t Designed With Tall People In Mind

Casey Plett is the author of A Dream of a Woman, Little Fish, A Safe Girl to Love, the co-editor of Meanwhile, Elsewhere: Science Fiction and Fantasy From Transgender Writers, and the Publisher at LittlePuss Press. She has written for The New York Times, Harper’s Bazaar, The Guardian, The Globe and Mail, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, the Winnipeg Free Press, and other publications. A winner of the Amazon First Novel Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and a two-time winner of the Lambda Literary Award, her work has also been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize.