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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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You DID Hear It From Us: There's Normal Gossip Merch

NEW NORMAL GOSSIP MERCH!

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Albert Burneko

A Bored Ape Yacht Club, uh, ape, whose eyes I have crudely blacked out, with blood running in rivulets from his empty eyesockets.

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The Machines

When Blindness Hits A Hundred Bucks A Share, Then Who Will Be Laughing, I Ask You, “Doctor”


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Dan McQuade in front of a march madness basketball court

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Pepe Reina of Villarreal CF during the friendly football match between SSC Napoli and Villarreal CF at Diego Armando Maradona stadium. Naples (Italy), December 17th, 2022.

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Soccer

The Color Star Cup Runneth Over

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Politics

“Major Announcement” From Donald Trump Turns Out To Be NFTs Of His Head Photoshopped Onto A Skinny Man In A Tuxedo

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The Sixers Season Is Over, But At Least I Got This Playoff NFT

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Patrick Redford

Former world welterweight king Floyd Mayweather speaks on stage during the crypto-currency conference Bitcoin 2021 Convention at the Mana Convention Center in Miami, Florida, on June 4, 2021. (Photo by Marco BELLO / AFP) (Photo by MARCO BELLO/AFP via Getty Images)

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Floyd Mayweather Is Also The Floyd Mayweather Of Shady Crypto Shit

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De’Aaron Fox’s NFT Project Suddenly, Mysteriously Shuts Down

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Jimmy Fallon holds NFT on Tonight Show with Paris Hilton.

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Arts And Culture

Imagine If Celebrities Actually Cared About Art

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Ray Ratto

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - AUGUST 06: A general view of play between the Oakland Athletics and the Texas Rangers at Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum on August 06, 2020 in Oakland, California. (Photo by Lachlan Cunningham/Getty Images)

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Mount Davis Is An Insult And MLB Is Too Stupid To Realize Or Too Greedy To Care

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Clubhouse Is Loud, Incoherent, And Packed With Suckers

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Chris Thompson

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A Cryptocurrency Expert Introduces Me To The Dystopian Nightmare Of Art As A Financial Instrument

This is the screen you see when there are only 55,000 people ahead of you in line for a NBA Top Shot pack.

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A Short, Lucrative, And Depressing Journey Into NBA Top Shot

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