Any time you get Cleveland and Oklahoma City into the first sentence of your blog, you can be reasonably sure that no one from either coast of North America will read it all the way to the end. The ...

NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, through here. The ...

The best way to snap an athlete out of platitude autopilot in a press conference is to get them to vent about some technical complaint. Like everyone else, they have esoteric gripes about their ...

These days, the team sending me into wistful aunt mode most often is No. 1 UCLA, whom I last blogged two seasons ago, back ...

Los Angeles is burning. At least two people are dead and more than 80,000 people have evacuated their homes. The images and ...

Hell is always a little bit nearer at hand in the Western Conference. In the East you can want to be bad, and try to be bad, and in fact be quite bad, and still host a playoff series. Not so in the ...

Golden State Warriors fans come by their belief in the occult honestly. They have been mesmerized by the varied and ...

I didn’t know that her parents were Penn State fans until I saw it. It was the summer before senior year of high school. A bunch of us went to hang out in a friend’s basement. The poster on the wall ...

In a sport that’s constantly morphing into strange new shapes as its decision-makers try and try to find the next big thing, the Las Vegas Raiders know what they like and they like what they know.

For the price of $20 per month, select DraftKings customers in New York can now enroll in a program that the company is ...

Sheel Seidler, the widow of former Padres chairman Peter Seidler, filed a complaint against two of the latter’s brothers over ...

As writers and bloggers, we all develop crutches or supports that we overrely on or use too often. One such tic or tendency ...