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The last few times Defector staffers have gathered to read a book, we’ve chosen sports novels. Namely, baseball and cycling.

E.Y. Zhao’s Underspin is a novel about a table tennis prodigy, Ryan Lo. The book opens with his funeral. From there, it’s a ...

Welcome to The Backlog, a series in which we will take a look back at 12 games from 2020 that, in one way or another, had a ...

People have been quoting The Simpsons to me so often, and for so long, that even if I don’t recognize the quote, I am able to ...

Roughly halfway through HIM, our protagonist—the promising quarterback Cameron Cade—is instructed by a sinister doctor to ...

The concept of sitting around with your pals and naming bygone, marginal athletes has existed for quite some time. Surely ...

Well, here we are! October is creeping up on the horizon, which means it is almost time for the playoffs. Except it is not ...

The existence of a Saudi Arabia comedy festival has been on the periphery of my mind for a few weeks, but there’s no more ...

Before he worked up the usual rundown of questions and topics and suchlike, Drew messaged me to see if I wanted to talk about ...

Remember Modell’s? C’mon, it wasn’t that long ago. If you are a Defector reader from the Northeast United States, you ...

The Phillies did not send their best lineup out there on Wednesday night. They needed just one win or one Dodgers loss to ...