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Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website. We write about sports, politics, TV, movies, science, weird shit that happens on the internet, and anything else that catches our attention, because we believe that a good publication is one that reflects the genuine interests and obsessions of its staff. We started this company because media […]
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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.
Can Someone Please Write Normally About This Fascinating …
Nov 20, 2024 · Augusta Britt has had, by any reasonable accounting, an extraordinarily rich and interesting life, and seems like a vivid and fascinating person. By her mid-teens in the mid-1970s, she was a pistol-packing Arizona refugee from her own abusive family and any number of atrocious foster homes. She met the novelist Cormac McCarthy by a motel […]
Marc Caputo Leaves NBC News One Week After Gloating About …
Feb 1, 2023 · Politics reporter Marc Caputo announced on Tuesday that he is leaving his job at NBC News. This sudden career change comes one week after Caputo spent a day chronicling on Instagram his recent eviction of a tenant renting a home Caputo owns in Key West, through screenshots of text conversations with the tenant and property manager.
Rudy Gobert Found A New Guy To Annoy | Defector
Nov 22, 2024 · The Raptors went on a run from there and won, 110-105. Somewhere in there, Randle hit Gobert with a nice dump-off for a dunk. But in the meaningless last seconds of regulation, Randle flung him a spiteful, thigh-level pass and slumped off the court. Seems great.
Charles P. Pierce - Defector
Sep 20, 2024 · Charles P. Pierce is a writer at Esquire and the author of four books, most recently Idiot America, and has been a working journalist since 1976.He lives near Boston with his wife but no longer his three children.
How Can He Slap? - Defector
Nov 25, 2024 · Jokic has a knack for both instinctual slaps and comical long-distance accuracy, and here was a rare hybrid.Nuggets analyst Adam Mares went deep on this one. At 77.6 feet, it's the fifth-longest field goal attempt in the league this season; Jokic made contact with the ball for less than 0.2 seconds per Second Spectrum tracking; the ball got within 11.8 inches of the rim.
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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.
Normal Gossip - Defector
Normal Gossip delivers juicy, strange, funny, and utterly banal gossip about people you’ll never know and never meet. Host Kelsey McKinney discusses reader-submitted comedic gossip with guests, diving into the lives and decisions of complete strangers.
Chappell Roan Confronts The Sickness Of Modern Fandom
Aug 21, 2024 · Over the past few years, I’ve become increasingly hesitant to identify as a fan of any living artist. There are plenty of artists whose work I like, or even love, but the entire concept of being a fan, and what the act of fandom entails, has shifted in ways I …