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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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Defector

Enter Our Raffle To Win A Visit And Home-Cooked Meal From Drew Magary

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tip jar sweepstakes

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Albert Burneko

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Arts And Culture

Novelist’s Plagiarism Defense Is A Truly Mind-Blowing Document

Stephen Curry and Andrew Wiggins (Golden State Warriors) wrestle Jayson Tatum (Boston Celtics) for the ball

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What’s Up With Jayson Tatum?

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Chefector

Let’s Make Cacio e Pepe

Stephen Curry shoots against Al Horford and Robert Williams in Game 2 of the NBA Finals

2022 NBA Finals – Game Two

The Warriors Warriored All Over The Celtics

A bunch of old-timey basketball players from an Olympics in the black-and-white era

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A Sophisticated And Punctual Preview Of The 2022 NBA Finals, For Basketball Idiots

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Let’s Sauté Some Rapini, Because I Forgot It’s Memorial Day Weekend

Mass Shooting At Elementary School In Uvalde, Texas Leaves 21 Dead

Politics

What It’s Like Here

Washington Commanders owners Daniel and Tanya Snyder

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The Commanders Bought Some Land In Freaking Patagonia

Adama Traore of Barcelona, Alfonso Pedraza of Villarreal, both going to the ground in pursuit of the ball

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Soccer

Thank God Barcelona’s Season Is Over

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Let’s Cook Some Blue Crabs

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Journalismism

Shams, Please, Go On Some Dates Man

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Barry Petchesky

In this photograph taken on June 17, 2011 a Cessna Grand Caravan aircraft of Susi Air prepares to take off at Jayapura airport in Papua province. An Indonesian aircraft with one Australian and one Slovak pilot on board crashed in the country's remote Papua region on September 9, 2011, a company spokesman said, with both men feared dead. AFP PHOTO / ROMEO GACAD (Photo credit should read ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images)

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Life's Rich Pageant

Point/Counterpoint: Landing A Plane If You Had To

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Won’t Somebody Think Of The Stupid Children?

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Media Meltdowns

The Blog Of The Year Is This Deranged Book Excerpt

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Let’s Poach Some Eggs, The Extremely Easy Thing To Do

Ja Morant lays in the game-winner for the Grizzlies against the Timberwolves

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I’m So Glad The Grizzlies And Wolves Found Each Other

Donovan Mitchell of the Utah Jazz tries to pass the ball while laid out on the floor against the Dallas Mavericks

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The Utah Jazz Spent An Evening In Spirit Prison

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Trae Young Had The Game 1 From Hell

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A Richly Informative And In Fact Quite Punctual Preview Of The 2022 NBA Playoffs

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Everyone Involved In Yanking Clayton Kershaw From His Perfect Game Must Go To Prison (Just For A Few Days)

Vladimir Guerrero Jr. homers against the Texas Rangers, April 10 2022

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Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Sent A Baseball To Baseball Hell For All Time

An old-timey photo of some kids gardening in New York City

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Elder Wisdom

Grow A Little Herb Garden

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It’s Green, It’s Sauce, It’s Green Sauce

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Russell Wilson Has A Beverage Brand For Various Hydration Occasions And Functional Need States

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This Is So Stupid

It’s Perfectly OK To Admit You’re Secretly Rooting For A Grizzly Bear To Tear Coach K’s Head Off