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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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NYC: Come To Our WNBA Comedy Show On July 15

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Jae Towle Vieira [they/them] works as a producer for Normal Gossip. Their fiction has been published in The Normal School, New England Review, Carve Magazine, Passages North, Fairy Tale Review, and elsewhere.

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Everyone Will Be Abuzz About The Season 8 Finale

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Sabrina Imbler

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Wings Week

Watch As Honeybee SLAPS Ant In Heated Exchange

Beekeeper Matt Hilton removes a colony of bees that formed on the net behind home plate during a delay to the MLB game between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks at Chase Field on April 30, 2024 in Phoenix, Arizona

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Can You Blame Bees For Loving The Great American Game Of Baseball?

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Albert Burneko

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A Huge Frickin’ Swarm Of Honeybees Came To My House!

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Barry Petchesky

Honeybee drinking nectar from a flower in Markham, Ontario, Canada, on September 10, 2022. (Photo by Creative Touch Imaging Ltd./NurPhoto)

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Sports Highlight Of The Day

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is The First Honeybee Ever To Pull A String

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Giri Nathan

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Patrick Redford

A beekeper works to clear bees from Centre Court which led to the temporary suspension of the match between Germany's Alexander Zverev and Spain's Carlos Alcaraz in their ATP-WTA Indian Wells Masters men's quarterfinal tennis match at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, California, on March 14, 2024.

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An Interview With The Bee Hero Who Humanely Vacuumed Thousands Of Bees Out Of A Tennis Stadium

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Everyone Will Be Abuzz About The Season 8 Finale

Watch As Honeybee SLAPS Ant In Heated Exchange

Can You Blame Bees For Loving The Great American Game Of Baseball?

A Huge Frickin’ Swarm Of Honeybees Came To My House!

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is The First Honeybee Ever To Pull A String

An Interview With The Bee Hero Who Humanely Vacuumed Thousands Of Bees Out Of A Tennis Stadium

Bees Buzz Baltimore Bullpen, Bother Buff Baseball Bros

Whoopsies! Fossil From The Dawn Of Life Actually Just Bees

Sebastian Vettel, Formula One’s Biggest Fan, Will Retire

Rudy Gobert’s Own Bees Sting Him In Face