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Owen Lewis is a former Defector intern and has written for The Guardian, The Second Serve, The Athletic, and other publications.

Owen Lewis

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Tennis

The Australian Open Is Too Much Of A Good Thing

Samer Kalaf

Don’t Let The Shills Tell You The Commercial-Free Service Should Have Commercials

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Drew Magary

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Science

Suddenly Every Deodorant Company Wants To Get In My Pants

Caitlin Clark daps up Jake From State Farm, for some reason, at the WNBA Draft

This Is So Stupid

Send Jake To A Farm Upstate

Diana Moskovitz is Defector&#8217;s investigations editor. You can contact her at diana@defector.com or dfmoskovitz@protonmail.com. She&#8217;s also on Signal @dmoskovitz.99

Diana Moskovitz

A weathered Canadian flag flutters in Big Valley north of Calgary, Canada, 11 June, 2007.

Hockey Canada Reminds Us Who’s Really In Charge Here

Albert Burneko

Media Meltdowns

Russell Wilson Has A Beverage Brand For Various Hydration Occasions And Functional Need States

Lauren Theisen

College Basketball

The Team Formerly Known As The MSU Spartans Request That Everyone Stop Making Fun Of Their Awful Sponsored Name

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