In early 2019, Tyreek Hill was already proof of just how far athletic talent can take you. Yes, he had pleaded guilty to domestic abuse in college, including signing a document in which he said he ...

The relationship between sports and the place where those games are played is largely a matter of fans developing a strong ...

During a Sept. 28 press conference, Mariners president of baseball operations Jerry Dipoto stated unprompted that if he had been fired following this season, it would have been justified. This is an ...

Having leisurely picked it up one day without expecting to be taken in, Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air arrested me from the first page. “Among my five teammates who reached the top [of Mount Everest], ...

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Ray: You’ll have to ...

Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from ...

If one wanted to understand the alarming state of international politics in the Western Hemisphere through a single story, it’d be hard to beat Jose Antonio Kast visiting CECOT this past January. Kast ...

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I know how the faint praise goes, but a lot of the important things Angel Reese does actually do show up in the box score.

Why does anyone play fantasy football? This is not a trick question, although it’s also not particularly difficult to answer. Perhaps they do it for money, or they enjoy football, or they want a ...

Names, the heroine of Cynthia Buchanan’s 1972 debut novel, Maiden, thinks to herself, “are so vital.” And with a name like ...

You might have heard by now of the scientist in Russia, 28-year-old Darya Shipilova, who died on Oct. 2 of an unknown illness. Shipilova worked in a lab at the Irkutsk Anti-Plague Research Institute ...