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NFL
Those Steelers Uniforms Looked Like Shit
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Tom Ley
October 27, 2025
NBA
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154
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Tom Ley
October 23, 2025
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NFL
Woody Johnson Doesn’t Think Anyone Could Win With The Pile-Of-Shit Quarterback He Signed
209
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Tom Ley
October 22, 2025
NBA
Harken Ye Unto The 2025–26 NBA Season Preview, Which Stands Before You
161
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Albert Burneko
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,
Maitreyi Anantharaman
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Patrick Redford
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Ray Ratto
, and
Tom Ley
October 21, 2025
NFL
Doug Martin’s Family Says He Was Experiencing Mental Health Crisis Before Dying In Police Custody
190
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Tom Ley
October 21, 2025
Soccer
Keir Starmer Won’t Tolerate Racist Hooligans Being Barred From Aston Villa’s Stadium
82
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Tom Ley
October 19, 2025
Soccer
Big Ange Has Never Been More Out
31
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Tom Ley
October 19, 2025
MLB
Shohei Ohtani Plays The Greatest Baseball Game Of All Time
311
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Tom Ley
October 17, 2025
College Football
Please Spend Some Time Imagining Mike Lombardi Begging For Money In Saudi Arabia
111
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Tom Ley
October 17, 2025
Jamboroo
I Have Developed An Unexpected And Revelatory Bond With My Car
536
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Tom Ley
October 16, 2025
Media Meltdowns
Free Press Reporter Discovers That Being An Amoral Dickhead Can Cost You Friends
456
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Tom Ley
October 15, 2025
MLB
That’s Why You Pay For All Those Guys
139
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Tom Ley
October 14, 2025
NFL
Ben Johnson Made This Harder On Himself
194
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Tom Ley
September 15, 2025
MLB
Yankees Honor Slain Anti–Free Speech Activist
638
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Tom Ley
September 11, 2025
Soccer
A Seemingly Late Yet Actually Perfectly Timed Preview Of The 2025-26 Premier League Season
82
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Luis Paez-Pumar
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Tom Ley
,
Billy Haisley
,
Ray Ratto
, and
Maitreyi Anantharaman
September 11, 2025
Announcements
Five Years Of Defector
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Tom Ley
September 10, 2025
MLB
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82
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Tom Ley
September 3, 2025
Defector Up All Night
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Tom Ley
August 29, 2025
Media Meltdowns
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153
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Tom Ley
August 27, 2025
MLB
Heckler Achieves Impossible Task Of Making Shohei Ohtani Even Cooler Than He Already Was
65
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Tom Ley
August 25, 2025
Announcements
Programming Notes
162
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Tom Ley
August 8, 2025
WNBA
Lamest Members Of Society Claim Responsibility For WNBA Dildo-Throwing Epidemic
242
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Tom Ley
August 8, 2025
Media Meltdowns
Wall Street Journal Calls For Congressional Investigation Into Caitlin Clark Getting Fouled
273
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Tom Ley
August 5, 2025
Why Your Team Sucks
Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Carolina Panthers
336
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Tom Ley
July 31, 2025
Defector Reads A Book
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Tom Ley
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Maitreyi Anantharaman
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Luis Paez-Pumar
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July 31, 2025
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