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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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<p>Hamilton Nolan is a journalist based in New York City. Subscribe to his work at <a href="https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1687350200913000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0naFbUVOe-5ZgtPDtIM3gz">HamiltonNolan.com</a>.</p>


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Hamilton Nolan

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - FEBRUARY 23: Taynna Cardoso of Brazil (black trunks) trades punches with Heather Hardy (white trunks) during their Super Featherweights bout at BoxingInsider Fight Night at Sony Hall on February 23, 2023 in New York City. Hardy won by majority decision.

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The Fights

In New York, Some Legends Still Fight Underground

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AI Art Only Looks Like Art If You Don’t Care

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<div><i>You can follow Nate Fisher on twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/bozomode">@BozoMode</a>. He also does 80 voices on <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-closer-look-podcast/id1561306479" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a-closer-look-podcast/id1561306479&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1676741332975000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0lHbqww1jqCCFc3nPLp5LF">the A Closer Look Podcast.</a></i></div>
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Your Guide To The 2023 NASCAR Season, Which Will Claim Your Mortal Soul

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<div class="gmail_default">Sophie Lewis is a writer based in Philadelphia, and the author of <i>Abolish the Family: A Manifesto for Care and Liberation</i> as well as <i>Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family</i>. You can support Sophie&#8217;s writing at <a href="http://patreon.com/reproutopia" target="_blank" rel="noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://patreon.com/reproutopia&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1676579571242000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0v46ws-benlRFZQr_vtOrj">patreon.com/reproutopia</a>.</div>
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Apple Music Super Bowl LVII Halftime Show

Rihanna Rubbed Her Belly And Broke A Million Brains

<p>Micah Herskind is an organizer, policy advocate, and writer based in Atlanta, GA.</p>


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A police car near the site of Atlanta's proposed Cop City

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Abolition Requires Struggle

<p>Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.</p>


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Hundreds of people gather in streets in freezing temperatures Monday evening to protest the killing of Tyre Nichols, in Chicago, United States on January 30, 2023. (Photo by Jacek Boczarski/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Policing

The Stories We Tell Ourselves To Live

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<p>Charles P. Pierce is a writer at <em>Esquire</em> and the author of four books, most recently <em>Idiot America</em>, and has been a working journalist since 1976. He lives near Boston with his wife but no longer his three children.</p>
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Great Hands Are Forever

<p><i>Olivia Craighead is a writer in Brooklyn, New York. </i></p>


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AFC Championship – Cincinnati Bengals v Kansas City Chiefs

Welcome To The Posters’ Bowl

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The Abrupt And Anonymous End Of StripperWeb

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Rihanna is seen out and about on July 07, 2021 in New York City. And then we photoshopped her purse into a giant NFL football

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This Is So Stupid

If Rihanna Songs Were About Football, Ranked


<p><a href="https://twitter.com/kenpomeroy" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Ken</a> has been cranking out college basketball statistics at <a href="http://kenpom.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">kenpom.com</a> since 2004. He’s written at The Athletic, Slate, the late <em>ESPN The Magazine</em>, and the late Basketball Prospectus. He hopes to live long enough to see the men&#8217;s game start using quarters, like every other basketball league in the world.</p>


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Michigan defender Will Tschetter draws a charge against Minnesota guard Ta'lon Cooper in a Big Ten game in Ann Arbor, Mi.

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College Basketball’s New Anti-Flopping Rules Seem To Be Working

<p>Fran Hoepfner is a writer and teacher.</p>


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Excitement Grows In Philadelphia As Eagles Head To The Super Bowl

It’s Time To Stop Fucking Around: We Need An Official Super Bowl Dessert

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Andrea Riseborough’s Oscar Nod Is A Nomination For The Past

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You’ll Never Meet Tilda Swinton Twice

<p>Jonathan Ben-Menachem is a PhD student in Sociology at Columbia University, where he researches the politics of criminalization. He has written about similar topics for the Washington Post, Slate, The Appeal, and more.</p>


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Jonathan Ben-Menachem

Rally And March To Close Rikers Island

Prison Abolition Is Pragmatic

<div dir="auto"><a href="https://twitter.com/nkulw">Noah Kulwin</a> is a writer and co-host of the podcast <a href="https://blowback.show/">Blowback</a>. He lives in New Jersey.</div>


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A photo of Lee Harvey Oswald being taken away by officials. In the corner is the join or die cartoon with the words THE AMERICAN FRIEND on it

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Politics

Decades Later, The JFK Assassination Still Keeps Some Secrets

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Death To The NCAA

Charlie Baker Is The NCAA’s Attempt To Put The Horses Back In The Barn


<p>Luisa Rollenhagen is a German-Argentinian freelance journalist based in Berlin. She&#8217;s written for publications such as <em>The Guardian</em>, BuzzFeed News, Deutsche Welle, and <em>GQ</em>. </p>


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dpatop - 07 December 2022, Hessen, Frankfurt/Main: In a raid against so-called "Reichsbürger" masked police officers, after searching a house Heinrich XIII Prince Reuss (2nd from right) lead to a police vehicle. The Federal Prosecutor's Office had several people from the so-called Reichsbürger scene arrested in the course of a raid on Wednesday morning. Numerous officers were deployed in several federal states, said a spokeswoman for the Karlsruhe authority . Photo: Boris Roessler/dpa (Photo by Boris Roessler/picture alliance via Getty Images)

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The Prince And QAnon: How Germany’s Far Right Went From Conspiracy To Coup

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I’ll Have What No One Is Having

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A woman sits on the floor of her hotel room in her underwear, leaning against the bed and with a magnum of champagne turned up to her mouth. Her clothes are strewn about the bed and floor of the room. (Photo by Graphic House/Getty Images)

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How To Drink Alone, The Madison Avenue Way

NFL: JAN 14 AFC Wild Card Playoffs – Chargers at Jaguars

Jaguars Junction: Wild Card Round

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<div>Casey Taylor is a writer living and working in Pittsburgh. He is currently writing a book for St. Martin&#8217;s Press about cannabis religions, Haile Selassie I, and the Cold War in the Caribbean. He also writes a free newsletter called <a href="https://weedchurch.substack.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener" data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://weedchurch.substack.com/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1709306863919000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1mVH2xiID6S0zvlyj6yHco">Weed Church</a> covering foolish spiritual things that occur to him. His work has appeared in The New Republic, WIRED, New York Magazine, and a sports blog he can’t currently recall the name of. You can <a href="mailto:caseyt7@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">email</a> him if you’d like.</div>
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SAN FRANCISCO - JUNE 09: Apple CEO Steve Jobs watches a video of the new iPhone 3G as he delivers the keynote address at the Apple Worldwide Web Developers Conference June 9, 2008 in San Francisco, California. Jobs kicked off the 2008 WWDC conference with a keynote where he announced an upgraded version of the popular iPhone called the iPhone 3G. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Apple Introduces New iPhone At Worldwide Developers Conference

Quiet Quitting Is A Stupid New Name For An Old Fight


<p>Alan Hanson is a writer from California. He writes creative nonfiction, essays, and poetry. He’s worked in advertising for over a decade because he likes to eat. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/iluvbutts247" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">@iluvbutts247</a> unless of course he gets suspiciously suspended.</p>


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This screen grab shows the Twitter account of billionaire Tesla chief Elon Musk on October 27, 2022.

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I Was Almost Elon Musk’s Twitter Voice


<p>Amanda Ruggeri is a multi-award-winning freelance journalist who lives in Switzerland. She writes on topics including science, travel, and sometimes ski racing.</p>


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Mikaela Shiffrin of United States of America during the flower ceremony of Audi FIS Alpine Ski World Cup Womens Slalom race on January 10, 2023 in Flachau, Austria. (Photo by Hans Peter Lottermoser/SEPA.Media /Getty Images)

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