Before Ilia Malinin had his disastrous free skate to lose gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics, there was Yuma Kagiyama—who ...

On Thursday, the Philadelphia Phillies released outfielder Nick Castellanos after months of threatening to do so. All ...

It would be hard to make up a more charming athlete story than that of Giannis Antetokounmpo. His life is a line connecting ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, ...

What is to be done about NBA tanking? Based on the pissy administrative response from the league to some recently and spectacularly egregious examples of Tank Mode, you might think it is the most ...

Work in the outdoor industry long enough, and you’ll learn that only certain jobs in the U.S. are allowed to be taken seriously. Spending your days emailing about nothing is a “career.” Drafting ...

To the uninitiated, luge itself might seem a silly sport, given that the average person might guess it mostly consists of ...

Because last week was such a sad and difficult and busy one for us at the site, and also for the broader world in the way ...

It is so easy to yield to temptation. My head might know a path leads only to shame and regret, but my heart urges me to take ...

Apologies to all otters, ferrets, badgers, ferret-badgers, weasels, fishers, polecats, wolverines, martens, and grisons, but ...

If we are to take stories first from Sportico’s Michael McCann and Robert Raiola and later Forbes’ Nathan Goldman as actual ...

How many Premier League teams would you say are super happy with their season so far? I’d put the number at three. First there’s Arsenal, which, aesthetic qualms aside, has to be giddy about its ...