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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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Enter Our Raffle To Win A Visit And Home-Cooked Meal From Drew Magary

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Giri Nathan

A maritozzo pastry from Rome next to Italian tennis star Jannik Sinner

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Some Italy Updates

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Barry Petchesky

IN SPACE - APRIL 10: In this handout photo provided by the National Science Foundation, the Event Horizon Telescope captures a black hole at the center of galaxy M87, outlined by emission from hot gas swirling around it under the influence of strong gravity near its event horizon, in an image released on April 10, 2019. A network of eight radio observatories on six mountains and four continents, the EHT observed a black hole in Messier 87, a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, on and off for 10 days in April of 2017 to make the image. (Photo by National Science Foundation via Getty Images)

National Science Foundation Holds News Conference On First Results From Event Horizon Telescope Project

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Black Holes Are Doing Something Weird After They Eat

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Let’s Make Cacio e Pepe

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PROVO, UT - FEBRUARY 5: Chet Holmgren #34 of the Gonzaga Bulldogs slam dunks the ball against the BYU Cougars during the first half of their game February 5, 2022 at the Marriott Center in Provo, Utah.(Photo by Chris Gardner/Getty Images)

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It’s Just Too Bad Chet Holmgren Will Be Forbidden From Entering An NBA Weight Room

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Some tagliatelle being made in Bologna, Italy, in 2018.

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The Noodleman’s Gambit, With Dan Pashman

<p>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 <em>Point B</em>. Handsomest man in the world.</p>


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Drew Magary

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Elder Wisdom

Let’s Just Do It And Be Legends. Let’s Make Pasta.