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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 Defector Crewneck Sweatshirt Is Back In Stock

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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.

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Drew Magary

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I Am The Passenger Now

Voiture 4x4 de marque Jeep Cherokee à Tignes, France.

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Let’s Remember Our Cars

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

End of life petrol and diesel cars and vans are piled on top of one another as they wait to be recycled in a car scrapyard on November 29, 2022 in Glastonbury, England. The UK scraps over one million cars a year and many more petrol and diesel cars will need to be taken off the road if the Government is to reach its target for the number of electric cars to be reached.

End Of Life Vehicles

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I Will Drive This Fucked-Up Car Until One Of Us Dies

Aaron Gordon is a reporter covering transportation, infrastructure, and the environment. Most recently, he was a senior staff writer at Motherboard, VICE News’s tech and science website.

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A general overall aerial view of Arrowhead Stadium on December 25, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri.

Arrowhead Stadium

Soccer

The Good, The Bad, And The Unreachable: A World Cup Transit Report Ranking

In this photo taken on September 11, 2023, BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded on a ship are stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port at Suzhou Port, in China's eastern Jiangsu Province. (Photo by AFP) / China OUT (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

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Funbag

Which Automaker Has The Ugliest Cars?

Alex Pareene is a contributing editor at The New Republic and the co-host, with Laura Marsh, of the podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/018-amanda-litman-run-for-something-why-you-cant-see/id1341525125?i=1000444277937" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Politics of Everything</a>.

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White blossoms covering a tree branch with a line of cars slowly driving on a road in the background.

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Life's Rich Pageant

People Who Caused Traffic Nightmare At Pretty Tree Festival Complain Of Traffic Nightmare At Pretty Tree Festival

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Giri Nathan

Daryl Morey smiles at a Sixers press conference.

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Daryl Morey Has An Alarming Relationship With Cars

Biden Administration To Restore California’s Ability To Set State’s Own Strict Auto Emissions Limits

Should Cars Have Another Horn In The Back? (No.)

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David Roth

The McLaren pit crew gets ready for a driver during the Miami Formula One Grand Prix.

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Podcasts

Porpoising In The Speed Zone, With Luis Paez-Pumar

Jack Crosbie

Beijing To Raise Car Emission Standards For 2008 Olympics

Life Lessons

We Have Confirmed That Headlights Are In Fact Too Bright

Visual Editor. Runs <a href="http://defectorstore.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">defectorstore.com</a>. Philadelphia-based, if you couldn’t tell.

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Which U.S. Presidents Could Parallel Park? An Investigation

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A drawing of Giannis cleaning the windshield from the interior of the car.

This Is So Stupid

Just How Much Of The Exterior Of A 1997 Subaru Outback Could Giannis Clean From The Passenger Seat? A Scientific Inquiry

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Sports Highlight Of The Day

The Sports Highlight Of The Day Is This Belgian Guy Parking His Car

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The Telsa Cybertruck is on display at the recently reopened Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, California, July 1, 2020. - California Governor Gavin Newsom announced July 1, 2020 that the state would be shutting down indoor operations for restaurants, zoos, museums and several other sectors effective immediately due to concerns over the recent spike in COVID-19 cases. (Photo by Robyn Beck / AFP) (Photo by ROBYN BECK/AFP via Getty Images)

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