Earlier this week, the Defector staff was chatting about Joel Embiid. Watching him give the business to the Boston Celtics in ...

If we were in Serbia, we’d all get fired,” Nikola Jokic said Thursday night, shortly after his Denver Nuggets lost their ...

Fourteen years. My wife and I were proud minivan owners for 14 years until this month. Once you have three children, ...

One walk-off win can cure you of any emotional or intellectual ailment. The smack of the bat, the moment of anticipation as ...

Obviously, going to print with piddly retail squabbles is the stuff of hacks. But I’m hacky enough, and still stunned enough ...

When LIV Golf launched in 2022, many were skeptical that there was a viable commercial lane for a new professional golf tour, ...

Converts can often seem like the only really religious people around. They tend to take their faith up, whatever it may be, ...

The novelist Walter Tevis described his 1963 sci-fi novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, obliquely inspired by his struggles with ...

The figure skater who said that Canadian ice dancer Nikolaj Sørensen sexually assaulted her—leading to Sørensen’s ban from ...

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...

New York Knicks center Mitchell Robinson is an emotional poster. The big man often posts about his romantic woes, ...

This Mammoth–Golden Knights first-round series has looked about as even as they come, but it’s been anything but a stalemate.