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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

Defector's 5th Birthday Party is on September 10 in Brooklyn

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Birthday party 2025

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Samer Kalaf

Jerod Mayo smiles as the Patriots beat the Bengals in Week 1

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The Patriots Spoil The Bengals’ Party

Northern Illinois Huskies players celebrate after an upset win over Notre Dame.

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College Football

Notre Dame Fast-Tracks Humiliating Part Of Season With Loss To Northern Illinois

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Patrick Beverley Reveals More Than He Intended About Life In Israel

White Sox interim manager Grady Sizemore argues with umpire and gets ejected from the game

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The White Sox Can Always Find A Way To Get Lower

Boar's Head deli meats Recall notice at Deli counter in grocery store, Queens, New York.

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Life's Rich Pageant

“Heavy Meat Buildup,” And More Alarming Phrases From A USDA Inspection Of A Boar’s Head Plant

Attendees calling for a ceasefire in Gaza demonstrate as President Joe Biden deliver the keynote speech during the first day of the Democratic National Convention on August 19, 2024,

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Politics

Everyone At The DNC Speaks For Palestine, Except For Palestinians

A photo finish of the 100-meter at the 2024 Olympics, with Noah Lyles winning.

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Olympics

Noah Lyles Wins The 100-Meter Gold By A Skin Cell

Algeria's Imane Khelif (left) following her victory over Hungary's Luca Anna Hamori in the Women's 66kg - Quarterfinal at the North Paris Arena

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Imane Khelif Clinches Olympic Medal In Cathartic Quarterfinal Win

Delta Airlines planes sit parked at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport

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Wings Week

Who’s Afraid Of A Palestinian Flag Pin?

Klay Thompson #11, Andrew Wiggins #22, Jonathan Kuminga #00, and Stephen Curry #30 of the Golden State Warriors look on from the bench during the game against the Sacramento Kings during the 2024 Play-In Tournament

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This Is So Stupid

An Attempt To Draw This Overstuffed Sentence About Klay Thompson Leaving The Warriors

Bill Belichick at a press conference for the Patriots.

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Each New Detail About How Bill Belichick Met His Girlfriend Is The Opposite Of Romantic

Al Horford reacts during the Boston Celtics' Game 5 against the Cleveland Cavaliers

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The Celtics Are Waiting For A Real Challenge

Harrison Butker delivers commencement speech at Benedictine College

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Chiefs Kicker Harrison Butker’s Inspirational Message To Graduating Catholics: Be Worse

A line of police at City College during pro-Gaza demonstrations

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Interviews

A City College Student Journalist Shares What He Saw During The NYPD Crackdown

NYPD officers in riot gear enter Columbia University's encampment

US-PALESTINIAN-ISRAEL-EDUCATION-CONFLICT

The Outside Agitators On Campus Were The Police

The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University.

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The Crackdown Explains The Protest

Caitlin Clark daps up Jake From State Farm, for some reason, at the WNBA Draft

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Send Jake To A Farm Upstate

Brock Burke pitches for the Texas Rangers

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Rangers’ Brock Burke Disrupts Recent Spate Of Pitcher Elbow Injuries, Breaks His Hand

Palestinian children are standing next to a bombed-out WCK vehicle in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

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The Exchange Rate On Palestinian Life

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Journalismism

Second Iteration Of Deadspin Now Also Dead

Palestinians, who are unable to meet their basic needs due to the Israeli army's obstruction of humanitarian aid, receive a bag of flour from an aid truck that arrived at al-Rashid Street in the west of Gaza City, Gaza.

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The Status Quo In Gaza Is Death

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The New York Times Ignores Intense Scrutiny Of Its Oct. 7 Report

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times doing a PBS interview

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New York Times Pays Thomas Friedman To Compare The Middle East To Bugs

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The New York Times’ David Leonhardt Turns In A Nasty Piece Of Work

Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys watches action during the second half of the NFC Wild Card Playoff game against the Green Bay Packers

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It’s Time To Make Fun Of The Bamboozling Disgrace That Is The Dallas Cowboys