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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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Comedian Bill Burr Headlines BetMGM Big Game Bash At MGM Grand

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Bill Burr Keeps Cycling Through Excuses For Doing The Riyadh Comedy Festival

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The Pleasures Of Reading Jane Ellen Harrison

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No Good Art Comes From Greed

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Grim Visions Emerge From The Riyadh Comedy Festival

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Becky Ferreira is a science reporter based in Ithaca, N.Y. She writes <a href="https://www.404media.co/author/becky/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.404media.co/author/becky/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740083778769000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3_mk31dNhas5lklZb38a6k">The Abstract</a>, a weekly science column for 404 Media. Her book First Contact, about the search for alien life, <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/becky-ferreira/first-contact/9781523527755/">is available now.</a>

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Becky Ferreira

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National Astronomy Observatory, Socorro, New Mexico

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A Brief History Of Martian Ruckuses

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Good Riddance To ‘The Best American Poetry’

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Paul Thomas Anderson Goes Big Game Hunting With ‘One Battle After Another’

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To Artistic Freedom: The Cause Of, And Solution To, All Of Life’s Problems

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All Your Favorite Sellouts Will Be At The Riyadh Comedy Festival

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E.Y. Zhao On The Cloistered, Competitive, Slippery-Floored World Of Table Tennis

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‘HIM’ Is A Non-Starter

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Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen Talks Old Scenes And A New Tour

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The Hallmark Channel And The Buffalo Bills Encourage You To “Go For Four”

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Robert Redford Made An Art Of The Double Take

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Celebrity Sightings In Los Angeles – November 04, 2019

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Charlie Kirk Is A Means To An End

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Reality TV Dating Enters Virgin Territory

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Brandy Jensen

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Not Every Documentary About A Crime Needs To Be A True Crime Documentary

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If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough

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Thank You, Melvyn Bragg

Owen Lewis is a former Defector intern and co-founded the website <a href="http://popcorntennis.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://popcorntennis.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1726234676777000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0PFWw6PL-FUqaCMME5TLqP">popcorntennis.com</a>. He wrote 63,000 words about the Novak Djokovic-Rafael Nadal rivalry that can be accessed for free at <a href="https://thegoldenrivalry.substack.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://thegoldenrivalry.substack.com&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1726234676777000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2OjAHpo4PVIhkx8Xd21lRJ">thegoldenrivalry.substack.com</a>.

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Owen Lewis

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Lucas Schaefer Understands The Brutality, Absurdity, And Transcendence Of Boxing

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“The Wizard Of Oz At Sphere” Premiere

No Courage, No Heart, No Brain

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I Apologize For The Behavior Of Barry “The Popcorn Moron” Petchesky

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I Submit To You That Popcorn Is A Bad Movie Snack

Lindsey Adler is a writer based in Brooklyn. She exclusively covered sports for a decade but has other interests, too.

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Oasis Live ’25 – Toronto

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