Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

This is a short blog post in which you are going to encounter exhausting behavior from some fellas who will leave you pining for the restoration of our culture’s sense of shame. Texas beat Ohio State ...

On Monday morning, the rapper Macklemore posted a lengthy Instagram statement alleging that New England Patriots owner Robert ...

What does it mean for an NFL team to be “AI-first?” It’s a question that football fans have been pondering ever since New York Jets Chief Analytics and Data Officer Iwao Fusillo revealed in May that ...

How strange it is to watch a whole Slam and feel as though we learned almost nothing about the true power hierarchy at the ...

The new Polymarket ad spot opens with LeBron James stepping onto an elevator and pushing a button labeled “SPORTS.” This is ...

There’s been a lot of clamoring for answers as to what happened in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s unusually messy divisional matchup between the Green Bay Packers and the Minnesota Vikings. And yet ...

College football fans who tuned into ESPN’s College GameDay this Saturday were forced to encounter the alarming visage of Texas Senator Ted Cruz. To make matter worse, he monopolized nearly 10 minutes ...

Ryan Garcia, the often troubled and always magnetic Californian who to this point in his career seemed unsure if he’d rather ...

The Video Assistant Referee is supposed to get everything right. This is an incredibly high standard to hold any sort of ...

Nothing beats watching a billionaire eat filth in public, unless the chefs and waiters at Maison De Merde are all ...

If you’ve read Nicholas Russell, here or elsewhere, you’ve gathered that he is thoughtful, erudite, and extremely curious. In ...