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

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

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

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

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

I attended Rare Book School at Princeton, which is about the tweediest thing a person can do. One humid day, after a morning ...

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

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

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

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

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