maitreyi anantharaman

shohei ohtani makes me want to have children so I can have grandchildren so I can tell them about him

who won the sushi race

Even though they're a functional team now, I have been so battered by so many bad years of Pistons basketball that merely seeing Cade in the NBA on NBC intro video felt amazing...second guy they showed 😭 representation matters

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The Aces Made Their Season From The Muck | Defector PHOENIX — Now they were just showing off, treating the crowd to an encore. Jackie Young zigged and zagged to the rim. Chelsea Gray’s strange-looking heaves swished in. NaLyssa Smith pulled down all th...

thank you Aces for sweeping so I can go home and pick up my library holds before the deadline 🙏 such a neat team to watch and cover this postseason! defector.com/the-aces-mad...

i was anxiously guardians scoreboard watching when they were on like a 10 game win streak? and the two of them hit big homers to finally end it

if you already wished for death because of a single walk tarik skubal issued in june, you are numb to anything tommy kahnle does in october, i actually feel fine today

notes app screenshot: - is it possible for an entire pitching staff to tip pitches - gleyber saves me from k*lling myself - stupid mustache - will vest plunks eugenio suarez right before the deadline - bullpen blows game the day after everyone gets mad at front office for not improving the bullpen enough - twins traded everyone at the deadline, most obvious series loss of all time - matt vierling is the most important man in my life (go ahead ph homer vs angels) - anxiously watching rafael montero pitch in extras (dot version of him on mib app) at karaoke, depressingly i also remember the last time i followed a tigers game at defector karaoke (2024 flaherty start @ bos) - kyle finnegan is the most important man in my life (vierling went on the IL) - stop lining into double plays! stop! - gleyber walkoff walk - framber in hell (i miss this entire 6 run 1st inning picking up my keys and then we only score 1 run the rest of game) - Got BWJ to GIDP twice, we are winning the world series - I KNEW IT WAS COMING but sacramento skubal start fml - losing on a walk off walk a week after winning on one - seeing 9-run yankees inning in person - kerry ties the game in the bottom of the 9th and saves the season, which we watch at the white sox game - will vest immediately un-saves it - tork saves the season - will vest immediately un-saves it - omfg i am so desperate brooks lee and royce lewis save the season - tarik's brain stops working - riley: *hits 35 homers and is 24* everyone: "trade him!!!" - it is friday night and i am watching the late september angels

as per tradition, I am rereading my Notes app Tigers season diary today (you can see me get increasingly panicked as we choke away the division) and there is really no other sport with this emotional rhythm, baseball owns

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felt this a little after G1 too, if you hold Jackie and Chelsea to 5-20 and still lose, maybe the universe is just not on your side

Who Can Stop A'ja Wilson? | Defector PHOENIX — On paper, all the havoc of a basketball game becomes something neat and unfeeling. However spiritually untrue it seems, this is actually true: In Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, there was only on...

that's the greatest player ever man defector.com/who-can-stop...

you can keep your little Etsy witch. this is a union town, we don’t fuck with the gig economy

The US’s biggest pro women’s sports unions have found strength together For NWSL and WNBA players’ unions, collective actions have been key to their successes in wholly different sports

For the WNBPA and the NWSLPA, solidarity is an ethos as well as a strategy. I spoke with leaders from both unions to learn more about the organizations' strong relationship:

There's a delicious irony in WNBA sources complaining about Unrivaled's role in CBA negotiations when the league exists in no small part because of the prioritization rules the WNBA insisted on during the current CBA. Be careful what you wish for ...

The Aces Like It When The Game Gets Uncomfortable | Defector LAS VEGAS — By now, there’s virtually no mystery to the Aces. Their best players now were their best players three years ago. They weaponize continuity, familiarity. If you believed in this team headi...

...and some more on the always adaptable Aces. defector.com/the-aces-lik...

The Hottest Ticket In Vegas? Cathy Engelbert's Press Conference | Defector LAS VEGAS — An Aces game overloads the senses well before the game itself begins. The national anthem features indoor fireworks. Seats rumble from the bass of the speakers. There’s so much to look at,...

excited to cover these desert Finals for Defector! a dispatch from the most crowded and eagerly awaited WNBA press conference I've ever been to... defector.com/the-hottest-...

Kerry Carpenter doubles (1) on a ground ball to second baseman Brayan Rocchio, deflected by first baseman C.J. Kayfus. Parker Meadows scores. Gleyber Torres to 3rd.

to beat the guardians, we first had to become them.

They're calling it the longest day in WNBA history

he might be the most overrated player in baseball. can't expect jhonkensy to carry this team himself.

tying run on third, no outs and couldn't score. just bad fundamentals. the guardians have to learn how to play small ball and do the little things right.

lmao i am the biggest fool in america

they read this! you're welcome, mercury!

Bulletin board material for the Mercury: I have been so confident in a Lynx series win that weeks ago I got tickets to Lorde in Minneapolis for the night before Finals Game 5. (though I'm increasingly worried there won't be a Game 5 to cover? this can be bulletin board material for the Lynx too)

With Sandy Brondello out, Cheryl Reeve has officially been on the job longer than every other WNBA coach combined.

Cheryl Reeve's tenure: 5768 days
Every other WNBA coach combined: 4529 days

and that isn't even counting al-quadin muhammad!

it’s still so crazy to me that the lions have this much talent, for the first ~20 years of my fandom, there were pretty much three total jersey options, and now there are like eight jersey-worthy guys playing in this game

Why Defector Is Intervening To Make Public A Confidential Document In The Tyreek Hill Case | Defector Six news outlets—Defector Media, the Miami Herald, Scripps Media, CBS4 (WFOR-TV), NBC6 (WTVJ-TV), and Telemundo 51(WSCV-TV)—all asked for permission to intervene in Tyreek Hill’s divorce case on Frida...

Defector, along with five other news outlets, is going to court for documents in the Tyreek Hill case. This blog (paywall down) explains why:

Patrick on A'ja and last night's Storm-Aces game is great. also your screen will turn off at the precise second you stop reading. many thanks to our web developers for adding that new feature

text message: Tue, Sep 2 at 3:55 PM I miss Reese Olson i was thinking about him yesterday bc we got him from the brewers and i was at a brewers game in milwaukee

we were remembering you in private reese! heal up king 👑 🙏