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

Joel Embiid talked it but his face couldn’t walk it, and it must dawn on him by now that the light at the end of his tunnel ...

The exhibition lay a long journey away. We passed through a giant hall with a rainbow ceiling, a long low hall with marble ...

How many superstars or superteams have come into Madison Square Garden and created an all-time moment against the Knicks?

Every pro athlete either washes out young or lives long enough to become the neighborhood crank. So it is with seven-time ...

It was tough finding anyone who favored the New York Islanders over the Carolina Hurricanes before their first-round series.

November, 12 matches into the season, we here at Defector wondered if Aston Villa’s Premier League campaign might be a mirage ...

Accumulate enough fondness for someone, and it becomes hard to remember past slights or disappointments that they’ve visited ...

Are you tired of these so-called elite pitchers doing disgusting things like throwing high-spin fastballs over 95 miles per hour and operating from their measly little three-pitch arsenals? These ...

Ryan Garcia’s got at least one hand of stone. Any time his left glove touched WBC super lightweight champ Devin Haney in ...

It’s a strange and difficult thing being a MLB umpire. The job is even harder to do well than Ángel Hernández makes it appear ...

The Gary Lineker joke goes, “Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the ...