This week’s episode of Nothing But Respect is in fact two episodes, because what was initially planned as two half-size chats ...

The brown bear identified as Bear 32 at Alaska’s Katmai National Park has been in the news a lot the last few years, and not ...

Hours after Napheesa Collier made a thorough, spectacular argument in favor of the idea that women should be paid to play ...

It’s been a shade over 36 hours now since his purportedly mutual separation from the Texas Rangers, and Bruce Bochy has not ...

Nobody at Defector is making me write this. In fact, they’d probably prefer I didn’t. But a few of our usual baseball writers are out today, and due to a series of fortunate events, I ended up at Game ...

What is her job? The commissioner of the WNBA represents the interests of WNBA ownership. Like any professional sports league’s commissioner, her job exists to absorb boos at drafts and trophy ...

The Indiana Fever are one game away from the WNBA Finals. They were not supposed to get nearly this far, not with Caitlin ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

For one more day, it is still September—a fine month, all told, but not the undisputed king of Baseball Months. And yet, ...

Of the five players made available to reporters at the Clippers’ media day Monday, Kawhi Leonard was the last one up. He ...

Smack! Pop! Crack! Woosh! Thump! Ping! Thud! Zing! Thwack! Whomp! Bam! BOOM! These are the normal, old-hat sounds of baseball ...

Well, they found a way to make Electronic Arts an even shittier company. In an move notable for its size, though certainly not its content, a group of investors—including Saudi Arabia’s Public ...