Fresh off the heels of the only disappointing 9-4 record in college football, Alabama fans this year must have been hoping to ...

Though history no doubt dates back before 2006, we have to start somewhere, and we may as well start with Kimi Raikkonen.

It is not important and furthermore not anyone’s business how many times per day I fill out one of the little three-by-three ...

Ohio State beat Texas 14-7 on college football’s opening weekend, spoiling Arch Manning’s big debut and committing the most ...

One of the most jarring parts of watching sports is the omnipresence of advertisements. The discerning fan can look past most ...

Days before the start of the 2025 season, Naomi Osaka made an ominous remark about her future in tennis. “I don’t think I’m the type of player that would hang around,” Osaka said, if her ranking ...

Some people are fans of the Buffalo Bills. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Buffalo Bills. This 2025 Defector ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking ...

As wary as he has typically been about the dangers of novelty, Bill Belichick must have known that the extremely public pantsing that he and his new team endured on Monday night was a possibility. But ...

You’ll have a grand time solving our Monday crossword. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Alex Eaton-Salners and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Defector crosswords, launched in partnership with our ...

This week, Left of Dial published its Essential Listening Poll, a compilation of the 100 best podcasts of all time, according ...

As Texas congressional districts go, the 21st is pretty easy to parse. The outline of it, which dips into Austin and enfolds a vast swath of the San Antonio suburbs, looks like a lumpier-than-average ...