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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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‘The Golden Bachelor’ Turns Grief Into Joy

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You Too Can Score Cheap On The Open Market For Dead People’s (Hammond) Organs

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<p>Corey Atad is a freelancer writer based in Toronto with an unhealthy Air Bud obsession.</p>


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The Survival Of Independent Cinema Begins With The Belief Of Those Who Make It

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In ‘Under The Skin’, The Woods Are The Final Isolation

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Defector Music Club Gets Lost In Sleater-Kinney’s ‘The Woods’

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Defector Reads A Book Is Getting Low-Key Parasocial With It

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