At the Phillies’ 2025 home opener, we decided that it was our year. As my friend Dana and I stood next to the giant balloon ...

In the immortal words of Comrade Xu, “There’s no need to overcomplicate things.” In discussing how the Philadelphia Phillies failed to beat the Los Angeles Thanos, that simple sentence explained in ...

Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications, these aren’t even written by ...

One month after mass protests against the presence of the Israel–Premier Tech team at the Vuelta a España brought the race to ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

Thursday was not a great night to be a current or former Red Wings goaltender. John Gibson, traded for this summer to solve ...

When the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would headline this season’s Super Bowl halftime show, it made all the sense in the ...

For the second game in a row, the Milwaukee Brewers allowed a handful of first-inning runs en route to a loss. Unlike in Wednesday’s close and competitive 4-3 defeat in Game 3, the Brewers in Game 4 ...

One of the motivations for the new Champions League format, which debuted in the men’s game last season and now has come to ...

This was the moment Jerry Jones could have cleaned the slate on his reputation as a brilliant businessman, Foghorn Leghorn ...

The professional tennis calendar might make sense if this was still the slow-paced lawn game of the previous century. But it ...

The Toronto Blue Jays needed a different script for Wednesday’s Game 4 against the New York Yankees. They’d gotten their lead ...