We at The Distraction HQ do not need much of an excuse to invite ESPN NFL ace and Defector comrade emeritus Kalyn Kahler onto ...

By now you’ve almost certainly seen the video for yourself, or read about it: an ICE agent shooting a Minneapolis woman, ...

Call it recency bias, personal interest, or perhaps just a general concern for society’s trajectory right now, but as I ...

The San Jose Sharks, who own the eighth-best record in the Western Conference, are a top-heavy team with a lot of growing ...

The bad thing about the NBA regular season is that it’s too long. The good thing about it is that it’s long enough for rich, ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

The United States invaded Venezuela late Friday, in a mission called “Operation Absolute Resolve.” The invasion, which ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. I did not write about it when it happened, but last year there was a bit of a manufactured crisis in rap ...

On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

Darryn Peterson, freshman at Kansas and top prospect in the 2026 NBA draft, has something keeping him off the floor. Those ...

Stevie Nicks famously sang the line “Lightning strikes / maybe once, maybe twice.” But on Tuesday night, Tampa Bay exceeded ...

Each time Matthew Zipple, a behavioral ecologist at Cornell University, releases a mouse that was born and raised in a ...