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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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Sabrina Imbler

a stuffed specimen of a swamp antechinus, which is a small brown marsupial, against a green background

The Sex Fest Keeps Getting Worse and Worse

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Barry Petchesky

A mudskipper jumping to impress another mudskipper

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Sports Highlight Of The Day

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is A Horny Fish Jumping Competition

Collared Peccary or Javelina is widespread through the Southwestern United States and Central and South America. It is not a member of the pig family, despite its looks.

Collared Peccary or Javelina is widespread through the Southwestern United States and Central and South America.  It is not a member of the pig family, despite its looks.

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I Ate All Your Precious Golf Worms And I’d Do It Again

Brandi Brown

A child and llama competing in the Llama-Alpaca Costume Contest at the Minnesota State Fair.

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Life's Rich Pageant

What I Saw At The Minnesota State Fair’s Llama-Alpaca Experience


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Dan McQuade

Devin the Dugong superimposed over the SMU mascot laying in a pool of confetti

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This Is So Stupid

Devin The Defector Dugong Is A Roaring Success In Earned Media

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Brigid Christison

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The Dead And The Beautiful

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Tom Ley

A super cute dog from the pet sematary:bloodlines trailer

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Apologies To The Makers Of The ‘Pet Sematary’ Prequel, But I Would Call This Dog “My Little Sweetie Baby” And Rub Its Belly

A drawn still from Diana's Piano. It looks hand drawn, maybe even even pencil marks. A red-headed girl with a white cat next to her plays a grand piano in a pink-ish void.

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“Diana’s Piano” And All The Cats I’ve Loved And Lost

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Samer Kalaf

A t-shirt with a three-by-three grid. Each box has two cows standing in front of the state of New Hampshire. The bottom of the shirt says "... enough said!"

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What Does This Cow Shirt Mean?

Dominant male orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) with large cheek flaps pointing his finger at his face, Borneo, Indonesia.

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These Orangutans May Not Be Beatboxing But They’re Definitely Doing Something

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I Messed Up Again

Yankee fans react SHOCKED to a squirrel on the outfield wall. Four guys, three really shocked the other kind of just looking at his phone.

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Squirrel Terrifies Yankees Fans

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Drew Magary

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My Dog Has Messy Dingleberries. Is Wokeism To Blame?

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Patrick Redford

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Laura Wagner

SIENA, ITALY - MARCH 04: Demi Vollering of The Netherlands and Team SD Worx attacks while a horse gallops beside her during the Eroica - 9th Strade Bianche 2023, Women's a 136km one day race from Siena to Siena 318m / #StradeBianche / on March 04, 2023 in Siena, Italy. (Photo by Luc Claessen/Getty Images)

Eroica – 9th Strade Bianche 2023 – Women’s

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Wannabe Cyclist Horse Steals The Show At A Spicy Strade Bianche

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Kelsey McKinney

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Pretty Neat. Defector Outlines Hiring Process That Landed Devin The Dugong

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Ray Ratto

BOTSWANA - 2014/06/12: Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) in river near Chitabe in the Okavango Delta in northern part of Botswana. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) in river near Chitabe

Here’s To Hippos

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Oh No! The Big, Beautiful Owl Got Out!

A domestic pigeon that has been dyed pink with hair dye.

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Justice For Flamingo, Who Did Not Consent To Being Dyed Pink

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Canadians Jubilant Despite Unexpected Death Of Weather-Predicting Rodent Fred La Marmotte

An extremely fluffy gray cat called the Pallas Cat snarling at the camera

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World’s Crankiest Cat Found On World’s Tallest Mountain

WASHINGTON, DC - APRIL 26: Sophomore Paige James, center, touches a hippo statue for luck as she leads admitted George Washington University students and their parents on a tour of the campus before deciding on whether or not to enroll on April, 26, 2017 in Washington, DC.

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Death To The NCAA

Official George Washington University Statement: Hippos Are Not Free To Be Bold

A Caravaggio-esque photo of a tree frog being stung inside the mouth by the two-pronged genital spines of a wasp. Ouch!

Low-Res_A tree frog (Dryophytes japonica) spitting out a male wasp (Anterhynchium gibbifrons) after being stung (by pseudo-stings) CREDIT Current Biology Sugiura