Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

We often talk about baseball games as a metric for where we are, and we’re literally in the first inning,” one of the ...

The Benham Brothers think they are very funny and very smart. They are 50-year-old tall, blonde, identical twins who have a ...

Spend enough time watching the best chess players in the world play, and even a chess amateur will pick up on something: ...

I am a bit sleep-deprived on my first day of work. I certainly could have slept last night—my excitement for the dream of interning here was outweighed by Amtrak-induced exhaustion. But unfortunately ...

By sheer power of will, determination, and lots and lots and lots of money, FIFA is looking to turn the previously irrelevant ...

I thought the game I attended last Tuesday was just about the smoothest basketball any team could play, when the reigning ...

The Kansas City Royals advised minor-leaguer Jac Caglianone, their first pick in the 2024 draft and top overall prospect, ...

MLB’s replay era has brought many annoying developments to the game, perhaps none more so than infielders keeping their glove ...

Mamta Patel Nagaraja grew up in a small town in West Texas, where her parents ran a motel. Nagaraja and her older sister were ...

Block off some time for our Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Mat Holmes and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu.

Max Verstappen’s meltdown in the closing laps of the Barcelona Grand Prix resulted in a catastrophic failure of race ...