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

Look at that image above. Really look at it. Now. And do not avert your eyes. Satan went to a lot of work to make this happen ...

In the hours before Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday, ESPN desk analyst Kendrick Perkins fielded a contrived gambling ...

There is a specific and lacerating shame that comes with talking about New York City politics in places where people who do ...

Back in January, an arbitration case between the NFL and the NFL Players’ Association came to a quiet end. The case was initiated by a grievance filed by the NFLPA in 2022, which argued that NFL ...

Joyce Carol Oates tweeted that her literary agent friend told her editors are no longer interested in reading first novels by young white male writers, “no matter how good.” She was saying this in ...

The Las Vegas Aces are bad. Not “bad by their championship standards”—just kind of bad. Two years ago, they lost six games total. In less than a third of this season, they have lost seven. By the ...

Pennsylvania Senator John Fetterman and writer Buzz Bissinger (most famous for authoring Friday Night Lights) were working ...

The base, corrupting, disenchanting influence of money has allegedly been right on the cusp of ruining everything good, noble ...

Richard Jefferson’s exact words—so help me God—were, “If Tyrese Haliburton was still playing, and it was a 15-point lead with ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter. Five days and multiple ...

I was convinced it was happening again. With 7:41 left in Sunday night’s NBA Finals Game 7, the Oklahoma City Thunder took a ...