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No Journey With Lady Gaga Is Ever Wasted | Defector I used to run the following tally for famous people with whom I shared a birthday: Vince Vaughn, also tall, famously made a movie where Las Vegas plays a big role; the poet Ada Limón, not so tall,…

No journey with Lady Gaga is ever wasted: defector.com/no-journey-w...

MLB’s Speedway Classic Featured Only A Mild Amount Of Mayhem! Mayhem! Mayhem! | Defector The Braves and Reds finally got back to baseball at the Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, even if it took them until Sunday! Sunday! Sunday! The game was originally scheduled for Saturday, but it b...

MLB's Speedway Classic featured only a mild amount of Mayhem! Mayhem! Mayhem! defector.com/mlbs-speedwa...

The Art Of Reading | Defector Brandy: This was my first read of The Art of Fielding, though I do have memories of it being, like, A Book You Should Read back in the day. I’m not sure exactly what I was expecting, but I found it…

The art of reading: defector.com/the-art-of-r...

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping…

Why did National Geographic disappear a documentary about a queer climate scientist? defector.com/why-did-nati...

A WNBA Team In Boston Seems Like A No-Brainer | Defector The days of WNBA basketball in Uncasville could be numbered. According to Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe, Boston Celtics minority owner Steve Pagliuca has agreed to a deal with the Mohegan Tribe to...

A WNBA team in Boston seems like a no-brainer: defector.com/a-wnba-team-...

Pete: I just got back from taking my daughter/nephew up north, in Michigan. They’re both 7. Canoeing, smores, hiking, fishing, campfires … all the standard stuff. The kids complained about everything. All the time. Is there a time in your life when the kids just started enjoying shit, or am I just doomed?

It's the Funbag, with guest host Albert Burneko: defector.com/ok-but-what-...

Baby Racer Stunts On Competitors By Standing Up And Walking | Defector The Minnesota Lynx absolutely obliterated the Las Vegas Aces on Saturday, 111-58—the 53-point victory breaking a 1998 record for the biggest road win in WNBA history. While Aces fans didn’t get much o...

Baby racer stunts on competitors by standing up and walking: defector.com/baby-racer-s...

Listen to the first episode of our new podcast 'Try Hard,' featuring Alex Sujong Laughlin and her guest Mattie Lubchansky: play.prx.org/listen?uf=ht...

The Cowboys' Annual Contract Stalemate Has A Fun New Twist | Defector Jerry Jones has yet to find a contract negotiation he won’t drag out. Since 2023, the Dallas Cowboys owner has run the same routine with star players Zack Martin, CeeDee Lamb, and Dak Prescott: Lowbal...

The Cowboys' annual contract stalemate has a fun new twist: defector.com/the-cowboys-...

The Crossword, July 28: When You Win, Say Nothing (Themeless) | Defector It’s time to to wrap up the month with a challenging themeless. Keep an eye out for tricky clues and fun wordplay. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Willa Angel Chen Miller and edited by…

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'Fall Guys' And 'Among Us' Gave 2020 The Parties It Needed 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 lasting impact on the video game industry. The summer of 2020 was a strange…

‘Fall Guys’ and ‘Among Us’ gave 2020 the parties it needed defector.com/fall-guys-an...

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: New Orleans Saints | Defector Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the…

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: New Orleans Saints defector.com/why-your-tea...

Minnesota Softball Has A Title IX Problem | Defector On May 11, 2023, Ellerie Ulfers was pitching for Washburn High School against district rival Southwest in a varsity softball game in Minneapolis, Minn. The start time had been moved back 15 minutes,…

Minnesota softball has a Title IX problem defector.com/minnesota-so...

Earth's Best Logroller Has Created Her Own Greatest Rival | Defector I am sitting on a dock in the Wisconsin sun. About 15 feet away, Livi Pappadopoulos and Aini Anderson are walking on water. The first and (now) second-ranked women in logrolling are sharing a No. 3…

Livi Pappadopoulos has dominated logrolling for years, but her protegee is closing the gap: defector.com/earths-best-...

Catch up with all of Why Your Team Sucks 2025 so far: defector.com/category/why...

The point of all this outrage is to confound and obscure a horror that cannot otherwise be denied, and an update from the newspaper would in that sense be enough for anyone looking to quell a stirring of revulsion or guilt in whatever part of themselves remains tenuously connected to the project of being human. This is something the Times has always been counted on to sell to its readers: the opportunity to feel righteously informed while avoiding, for a little longer, the truth of what is happening. It is enough for them to keep thinking that sickness lives only in the body, and not in the soul.

The New York Times clarifies that a starving child in Gaza also needs medical care: defector.com/the-new-york...

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Carolina Panthers | Defector Some people are fans of the Carolina Panthers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Carolina Panthers. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the…

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: Carolina Panthers defector.com/why-your-tea...

Jerry Dipoto Will Never Stop Doing Jerry Dipoto Things | Defector After the 2023 season, when the Mariners narrowly missed out on the playoffs despite having 90 percent odds of making it at the start of September, Jerry Dipoto traded Eugenio Suárez to the Arizona…

"Say what you want about his management skills, but Dipoto is at least trying to prove himself as the sort of person who, when he realizes in the middle of the sidewalk that he's walking the wrong way, would feel no shame in pivoting right back around." defector.com/jerry-dipoto...

You can catch up on all seven Backlog posts here, if you are so inclined: defector.com/category/vid...

Why Did National Geographic Disappear Its Own Documentary About A Queer Climate Scientist? | Defector If you’re not a particular kind of mountain sports nerd, you might not be familiar with the Banff Centre Mountain Film Festival World Tour. But for people who live their lives in the overlapping circl...

One last time before the weekend, my new story from this week, on a film that vanished in late January without explanation. Thanks to everyone who's read and shared it so far! If you haven't yet, please join this cool group of people!

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: New Orleans Saints | Defector Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the…

Even the Falcons look like a model franchise by comparison. The Saints suck. defector.com/why-your-tea...

The Emmanuel Clase Market Is Perhaps Understandably Bearish | Defector Emmanuel Clase’s paid leave has screwed up some plans. The news that the All-Star closer is involved in MLB’s sports betting investigation “did not simply deprive the Cleveland Guardians of their top…

Guardians execs were not the only ones with a lot staked on Clase. He’s one of seven baseball players who signed an agreement with the company Finlete, which allows fans to purchase shares in a player’s future earnings. defector.com/the-emmanuel...

No Journey With Lady Gaga Is Ever Wasted | Defector I used to run the following tally for famous people with whom I shared a birthday: Vince Vaughn, also tall, famously made a movie where Las Vegas plays a big role; the poet Ada Limón, not so tall,…

Nicholas Russell saw Lady Gaga at The Mayhem Ball in Las Vegas: defector.com/no-journey-w...

'Fall Guys' And 'Among Us' Gave 2020 The Parties It Needed 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 lasting impact on the video game industry. The summer of 2020 was a strange…

‘Fall Guys’ and ‘Among Us’ gave 2020 the parties it needed: defector.com/fall-guys-an...

The Minnesota Twins Are Finished | Defector I had an unusually hard time finding a feature photo to go atop this blog. Almost none of this is the fault of the couple of Getty photographers who hang around the Minnesota Twins. For one thing, I…

The Minnesota Twins are finished: defector.com/the-minnesot...

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: New York Jets | Defector Some people are fans of the New York Jets. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Jets. This 2025 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so…

Why Your Team Sucks 2025: New York Jets defector.com/why-your-tea...

My Favorite Part Of 'Anna Karenina' Is The Guy Who Can't Stop Himself From Talking About Mushrooms | Defector I just read Leo Tolstoy’s 1870s novel Anna Karenina for the first time, and I am treating it like a real accomplishment. For basically all of my life, whenever I’ve heard reference to Tolstoy—OK,…

My favorite part of 'Anna Karenina' is the guy who can't stop himself from talking about mushrooms defector.com/my-favorite-...

'The Art Of Fielding' Knows What's Scary About Baseball | Defector I can still remember the sound of the dull thud, and the scream that came after. It was a tournament game, and our pitcher, Paul, was dealing. He always did, because he could throw 80 mph as a…

"There was a sound like a mallet hitting meat, followed by the muffled ping of the bat hitting the ground just before Josh's body, and then the most upsetting scream I've ever heard." defector.com/the-art-of-f...

A Huge W, With Maitreyi Anantharaman | Defector There is a worrying sense at the moment, present across a worryingly large swath of public life, that everything is shrinking. It is not a matter of any of those things dying so much as they are just ...

We talked to Maitreyi about the present and future of the WNBA, best practices in lying to children, and how to identify Detroit Tigers relievers in the coffee shop: defector.com/a-huge-w-wit...

The New York Times Clarifies That A Starving Child In Gaza Also Needs Medical Care | Defector People are starving in Gaza. They are starving because the Israeli government is not allowing enough food to enter, and because what food becomes sporadically available can be claimed only by those wi...

"...an update from the newspaper would in that sense be enough for anyone looking to quell a stirring of revulsion or guilt in whatever part of themselves remains tenuously connected to the project of being human."
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