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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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Maitreyi Anantharaman

A woman rests and tans near a lake in the Bois de Boulogne near Paris, in June 1946, during a heat wave at the beginning of the 1946 summer.

Life Lessons

Can I Point You To The Dew Point?

Defector Staff

Boxing fans watch a televised fight between Albert Finch of Britain and Baby Day (Lewis Warren) of the USA, in a bar, UK, 7th February 1950. Day won on points.

How To Watch Sports, According To The Defector Staff

Albert Burneko

Overexplained Lists

Worst Places To Get A Sunburn, Ranked

Kelsey McKinney

Attention! It Is Cherry Season!

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

Drew Magary

The crew of NASA's STS-30 mission pose in front of the mid-deck starboard wall-mounted sleep restraints on the Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle OV 104), 8th May 1989. Clockwise from top right, they are Commander David M Walker, mission specialists Mary L Cleave, Mark C Lee and Norman E Thagard, and pilot Ronald J Grabe. They are wearing red, white and blue mission polo shirts and light blue flight overalls. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

I Think I’m Done With T-Shirts

If Someone Watched You Watch Sports, What Would They See?

Laura Wagner

Crabfector

You Can Crab

Paul Kix is an author, entrepreneur, and occasional podcaster. His writing has appeared in places like The New Yorker, GQ, ESPN, and The Wall Street Journal.

Paul Kix

Parenting Lessons From An Ill-Advised Trip Into The Yankee Stadium Bleachers

Craig Fehrman last wrote for Defector about <a href="https://defector.com/it-never-ends-like-it-should" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://defector.com/it-never-ends-like-it-should&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1775741247521000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1R6Fh05yMdaM2z1ukPQtbb">the death of Iris</a>, his NBA-loving neighbor. His book <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/This-Vast-Enterprise/Craig-Fehrman/9781982174248">This Vast Enterprise: A New History of Lewis and Clark</a> comes out on April 21.

Craig Fehrman

It Never Ends Like It Should

Food-Scented Candles Are An Abomination

Vials of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine are pictured during vaccination in Gaza City on March 25, 2021. - Thousands of Palestinian health workers, the elderly, and patients with cancer or kidney disease were set to get Covid-19 vaccines as the health ministry ramped up its inoculation campaign (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

I Got My First Vaccine Dose. Now What?

Staff Writer
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Chris Thompson

A turkey leg smothered in some sort of cream-based seafood slop. Delicious.

Stuff And Smother More Food, Goddammit

Ray Ratto

The COVID Vaccine’s Side Effects Were No Match For My Steel-Trap Mind And Columnist’s Body (This Time Around, Anyway)

Composer Irving Berlin (1888 Ð 1989) with singer Barry Wood (1909 - 1970) and orchestra leader Ray Bloch (1902 - 1982) recording a song in the 1940's. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Elder Wisdom

Never Stop Singing

You Must Have One Trick For The Baby

In this picture taken on August 27, 2020, Daniel Chan poses with a tin of Hoisin sauce with labling that reads ÒMade in Hong KongÓ made at the Koon Chun Sauce Factory, founded by his great-grandfather n 1928, in Hong Kong, which produces soy, hoisin and oyster sauces found in Chinese restaurants and kitchens around the world. - At the Koon Chun Sauce Factory workers are scrambling to cover hundreds of thousands of bottles with new "Made in China" labels as the popular Hong Kong brand falls victim to spiralling diplomatic tensions. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) / TO GO WITH: HongKong-China-US-politics-economy, FOCUS by Su Xinqi (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images)

Hoisin Sauce And Me: A Love Story

Actors Lucille Hutton and Jackie Levine play tug-of-war with Jack Miller's blanket while attempting to get him out of bed in a still from the silent film comedy 'Oh, Mama'. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Hear Me Out: Put A Blanket On Top Of The Comforter

Lauren Theisen

A baseball player is silhouetted as he follows through while practicing in the batting cages

Lost And Found In The Batting Cage

two images of cherries on a small plate: one in color and one desaturated

When The Cherries Run Out

Dan McQuade was a founding member of Defector. He died in January 2026.

Dan McQuade

The writer, Dan McQuade, receiving his coronavirus vaccine.

I Got The COVID-19 Vaccine, Then I Tried To Figure Out Why

Barry Petchesky

A member of the Ripoll Taberner family minces meat during the annual tradition of the pig slaughter (matanza de cerdo) in Llucmajor on the Spanish Balearic Island of Mallorca on November 23, 2020. - For the traditional slaughter, a pig is fattened up for a year and then killed on a cold day to ensure the best conservation of the "sobrasada" sausages. (Photo by JAIME REINA / AFP) (Photo by JAIME REINA/AFP via Getty Images)

Year In Review

What Horrible Things Did We Do To Our Penises Last Year?

What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?

Pizza The Hutt from the movie Spaceballs.

Hibernating For One Year Has Turned Me Into A Toxic Blob

My cat, on the rim of a sink, next to a running faucet

Is Drinking 40 Sips Of Water With Your Hand, Like A Cat, Every Morning “More Efficient” Than Using A Glass? An Investigation

A cartoon of Dwight Eisenhower from a French poster in 1953.