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Saul “Canelo” Alvarez won another title over the weekend while making a ton of money and looking damn good in the ring. So ...

There are two recurring trans women named Carolina in Sloane Murphy’s short story collection Shut Up I Love You I’ll Call You ...

This year, Kimi Antonelli got lucky. Antonelli drives the fastest car on the grid. He is young—very recently a teenager, even ...

This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

Every championship is different, though they’re all composed of the same emotional materials. A champion is supposed to have overcome circumstances, smelting the raw materials of loss and pain into a ...

There is a sign outside the NHL league offices in New York and Toronto (yep, there are two of them) stolen from construction ...

Elisabetta Palagi, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Pisa, had sent her team of research students to Ethiopia to study geladas, monkeys whose hearts appear to gleam out of their chests.

The Detroit Lions became the first team this season to beat the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, but nobody on either team really ...

Everyone in Detroit has a responsibility to keep Haley Stevens away from the Gordie Howe Bridge today, because at the rate ...

It’s not particularly surprising to look at the top of the table in the Premier League and see Arsenal and Manchester City. Aside from Liverpool’s 2024-25 title-winning campaign, those two sides have ...

It’s silly to pretend that some otherworldly deity is determining the fates of your favorite sports teams, but what else am I supposed to believe when Lamar Jackson, who had been sidelined with a ...