defector-orange-no-empty-space

lede_post_card_default

lede_post_card_stacked

lede_post_card_featured_post

lede_post_card_featured_posts_hero

lede_post_card_featured_posts_sidebar

lede_post_card_highlighted_post

lede_post_card_horizontal_a

lede_post_card_horizontal_c

lede_post_card_related_post

lede_article_featured_16x9

lede_article_featured_3x2

lede_article_featured_1x1

lede_article_featured_flexible

lede_article_content

lede_article_content_wide_width

lede_article_content_full_width

lede_byline_avatar_post_card

lede_byline_avatar_highlight

lede_profile_coral_avatar

lede_logo

lede_logo_banner

lede_logo_footer_banner

lede_logo_simple_header

lede_sponsorship_logo

lede_sponsorship_logo_river_card

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card_logo

lede_sponsorship_homepage_card

Footer Legal

Header - Categories

Header Menu

The last good website.

Topics

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.

defector-no-empty-space

Defector

headshot1

Patrick Redford

An Iranian rock climber scaling a climbing wall in Tehran.

Iran-Youths, First Stage Of The Boulder Cup Rock Climbing League

Life Lessons

How Do You Win When You Compete With Yourself?

Normal Gossip: portraits

Alex Sujong Laughlin

A man and woman sit on a beach under a striped umbrella drinking Coke out of glass bottles.

1950s COUPLE MAN WOMAN…

I Was Wrong About Diet Coke

headshot

Barry Petchesky

carrotoptimized

Year In Review

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

ratto-ray_400x400

Ray Ratto

A collection of straw hats and fedoras for sale at a market

fedoras

Beware The Vacation Fedora

cropped-defector-circle_avatar512.png

Defector Staff

Sancho at the Feast, Starved by his Physician' by William Hogarth (1697 - 1764). English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist. Sancho Panza is a key character in the Spanish novel 'Don Quixote' by Cervantes.

Sancho at the Feast.

The Best Things We Ate In 2024

-b9trzb

Lauren Theisen

Women’s Pro-Wrestling “Saree-ISM”

Pro Wrestling

Some Wrestling Matches I Liked In 2024


<p>charismatic megafauna (they/them)</p>


Typing

Sabrina Imbler

Matchbook image of men in suits having drinks at a bar.

My Fancy Little Mocktail Was Missing More Than Booze

May Company Basement Sale, 1 March 1954. Crowd at May Company Basement Sale.;Caption slip reads: 'Photographer: McCarty. Date: 154-03-01. Reporter: Scott. Assignment: May Co. Basement Sale. 1/2/46/76/35/72/71/69/70/75: Crowd at May Co. Basement Sale'..

May Company Basement Sale, 1954

The Worst Things We Bought In 2024

circa 1897: Portrait of actor John Martin Harvey (1867 - 1944) reading to two children on a postcard.

J Martin Harvey

The Best Things We Read In 2024

His Master’s Voice Advertisement

The Best Things We Heard In 2024

Candy cane x-ray

What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?

An old timey drive-in, with an old-timey pickup truck in front of it. The front of the drive in says "DRIVE-IN THEATRE. SIT IN YOUR CAR. SEE AND HEAR TALKING PICTURES. ON THE WORLD'S LARGEST SCREEN. Californa's First." There's also a neon entrance sign. The photo is black and white. The Year in Review Defector graphic is at the bottom.

year-in-review-talking-pictures-best-things-we-saw

The Best Things We Saw In 2024

A fan lands himself just foul in the upper level leftfield seats as he keeps cool and takes in the Dodger/Seattle interleague game, Sunday afternoon at Dodger Stadium.

year-in-review-interleague-game-best-sports-moment

Defector’s Favorite Sports Moments Of 2024

IMG_5859

Giri Nathan

shams-2

Presenting The 2024 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many

Halley’s Comment

Drewbert Thompchesky

OminousCorn

Bette Davis’ Cigarette

Little King Trashmouth

1940s Woman Seated At Home Desk Using Portable Typewriter Head Turned Looking At Camera Smiling.

1940s Home Typing

Things We Actually Like

Let’s Remember Some Comments From 2023

A black Coach purse alongside purse restoration tools on a table.

purse-leather-alex

A Purse For Whatever Woman You Want To Be

A page from a 1939 mens clothing catalog for Fred Mueller with illustrations of men wearing colorful western-style shirts.

Fred Mueller Inc.

The One Easy Trick For Adding Color To Your Wardrobe

a grid of ultrasound images of my (now former) breasts may they RIP!

IMG_1598

Even Good Health Insurance Is Bad; Or, How I Got Top Surgery With A Family History Of Breast Cancer

This video grab taken from a video posted on the Twitter account of billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk on October 26, 2022 shows himself carrying a sink as he enters the Twitter headquarters in San Francisco. Elon Musk changed his Twitter profile to "Chief Twit" and posted video of himself walking into the social network's California headquarters carrying a sink, days before his contentious takeover of the company must be finalized.

TOPSHOT-US-TWITTER-MUSK-INTERNET-JUSTICE

The Worst Of 2023

Pr?paration de g?teaux, d?coupe d'une banane. (Photo by Bettina BRINKMANN/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)

Pr?paration de g?teaux

A blue-green iridescent wasp with a pointy pointy rear

dd0806df-e808-4924-bfbd-a58b1cb539c5

Creaturefector

The Year In Parasitic Wasps

The Holy Family. Found in the collection of Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona.

The Holy Family. Artist: Stomer, Matthias (ca.1600-after 1650)

What Our Families Thought Of Defector In 2023

AJSfPYY9_400x400-1

Kelsey McKinney

A photo of the painting Lady at the Piano' by Felix Valloton, from 1904.

Lady at the Piano’ by Felix Valloton

Learning To Play Piano When There Is No Recital

authorpic1294q9q7qfnn

Soraya Roberts

The Patti Smith Group pose for portraits, (L-R) Lenny Kaye, Richard Sohl, Patti Smith, Ivan Kral and Jay Dee Daugherty, in May 1976 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Patti Smith Group Portraits In Copenhagen

Make Space For The Artist

Meeting des gourmets juniors √† Londres

The Best Things We Ate In 2023