This is Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, in honor of Bills Week ...

The Buffalo Bills of my childhood are not the Buffalo Bills I live with now. They are certainly not the Buffalo Bills I’ve ...

Let’s face it, we have been living through a pop cultural age—particularly in cinema—made in Quentin Tarantino’s image. Before Marvel, before George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney, Tarantino made nerd ...

This post was originally published on the author’s Substack on June 24. It has been republished here in conjunction with Bills Week. Everybody knows about the MAGA hat. It’s red. It says what it says ...

To call it a “pleasant surprise” wouldn’t quite be right. As someone with an abiding interest in the colorful names and nicknames of Brazilian athletes—my all-time favorite remains that of Leandro ...

They were going to make it. After working with three riders all day, staving off the pursuit of five others, and eventually holding off the determined charge of a former world champion, Uno-X’s Jonas ...

Nobody does self-loathing quite like baseball, so it comes as little surprise that its governing body has yet again veered away fearfully yet violently from its essential product, so it can avoid ...

Defector is launching two new podcasts in partnership with Radiotopia!  When Kelsey and I handed off Normal Gossip to ...

We are forced once again to interrupt Bills Week in order to bring an important matter to your attention: Defector is adding ...

For a series with little by way of story, it’s impressive how many iconic non-player characters Pokémon has spawned. There is ...

Bill Simmons has been a part of my life for about 20 years now. As with any relationship that lasts that long, my feelings ...

This weekend, my family and I went up to Lake Placid, where I saw several loons. As is the case when I see birds of note, I ...