Deniz Selman’s family moved to Philadelphia from Turkey when he was four. His parents were basketball fans and quickly became ...

On paper, the Houston Texans outperformed expectations. They ran more plays than the Kansas City Chiefs, possessed the ball ...

This week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill that would ban trans girls and women from every level of sport, in ...

During the first week of the fires, I would go up to my building’s roof once a day. I’d look at the Los Angeles skyline at whatever shade of yellow-orange-brown muck the fires had delivered that day ...

America has now gotten all the Cleveland Cavaliers-Oklahoma City Thunder basketball we will be allowed before June, which is ...

It was a sequence that perfectly captured the Pittsburgh Steelers’ desultory first-round playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens ...

Halfway through the first quarter of Oklahoma City’s blowout revenge win over the Cavaliers on Thursday, Max Strus hit a ...

Collier and Stewart, who both serve on the executive committee of the WNBA players' union, never pitched Unrivaled as a ...

NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the ...

It is not difficult to find people who loved Bob Uecker unreservedly. There is a good reason for this: He was the last ...

I went to Las Vegas to see the future, but mostly to podcast. I was there on assignment for Ed Zitron, host of the Better ...

The best way to snap an athlete out of platitude autopilot in a press conference is to get them to vent about some technical ...