It’s not about throwing a punch. We know both these teams can land a haymaker. No team gets this far without that skill, even if each comes at it from a slightly different angle—the Oilers, more ...

Without Paige Bueckers, the Dallas Wings look like what they were last year, when they were also without Paige Bueckers, ...

Members of the Defector staff often send each other animal photos and videos. Some are cute, or doing funny things; others ...

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best design advice column. Everyone’s saying this! Here are this month’s dilemmas: ...

For the second straight year, the Florida Panthers are playing the Edmonton Oilers for the Stanley Cup. I’m not convinced that we can see their futures by looking at their pasts, but I think it’s ...

You, the savvy baseball fan, are almost certainly wise to imagine what Pittsburgh Pirates ace Paul Skenes will look like someday wearing some other team’s uniform. If you are a fan of one of six ...

It probably does not matter who occupies the position of hitting coach for the Colorado Rockies. For the previous three ...

This week’s story presents us all with a bouquet of ethical questions. How much unpaid labor would you take on for a dear friend? Nude yoga in the yard: Yea or nay? Under what circumstances can you ...

This spring, a new business opened on the main drag of my West Philadelphia neighborhood, provoking both excitement and ...

Motherfucking Owen got me so good. Remember the intern intro blog last year where Owen made a goofy little remark about there ...

Viewed from one angle, Tom Thibodeau losing his job as head coach of the New York Knicks, a development reported this ...

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