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While watching the Euros quarterfinal between Sweden and England with an eye toward covering it, I kept changing my mind on what to write about. This is a side effect of my job and my brain, both of ...
Before Bill Nye was a Science Guy, he was the pride of Seattle. Shit, he was Seattle, in many senses. He worked as an ...
Fuck, what a shit birthday,” Laurence Pithie gasps. The Kiwi rider from Red Bull has just summited the Hautacam, a winding, ...
At the beginning of every baseball career, everyone is pretty much guessing. From a certain perspective, the work of that ...
You may have once again noticed that a lot of people on TV, the internet, and in your real life are talking about files. The ...
There was a moment, near the end of my week-plus in Maine, when I could actually feel myself Becoming Normal again. The ...
There are only two pieces of media that have made me wistful for a small-town/suburban childhood I didn’t have: A Christmas ...
Victor Ortega Jiménez was visiting the Atlanta zoo with his family when he became mesmerized by a flock of Chilean flamingos.
For Bill Guerin, who’s been GM of the Minnesota Wild since 2019, the beginning of this month must have felt like finally taking off an extremely tight pair of pants after a very long day. As a ...
We have been living through a pop-cultural age—particularly in cinema—made in Quentin Tarantino’s image. Before Marvel, before George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney, Tarantino made nerd culture ...
This is Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, in honor of Bills Week ...
To call it a “pleasant surprise” wouldn’t quite be right. As someone with an abiding interest in the colorful names and nicknames of Brazilian athletes—my all-time favorite remains that of Leandro ...