If you missed last week’s Thursday Night Football tilt between the Steelers and Browns, don’t grieve. The game itself was ...

The single discordant note in the otherwise effervescent National League Divisional Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and ...

I have tried over the past year and change to find a succinct way to tell this story and instead only keep coming up with longer and more elaborate versions. So: way back in law school I read a lot of ...

Welcome back to Minor Dilemmas, where a member of Defector’s Parents Council will answer your questions on surviving family ...

Dylan Larkin is still a Red Wing, even though he doesn’t want to be. His offseason trade request, arriving after 11 seasons with the club and a mere five playoff games (all as a rookie), symbolized ...

If you listen to a certain subset of the media—not necessarily the sports media—the state of the WNBA is dire. A generational talent is being squandered. Weak leadership has failed a league on the ...

Let’s play a game. What do you expect was the outcome of this 3-on-0? Expectations are a funny thing in sports. They are as subject to the observer effect as any quantum mechanic: When a player or a ...

Every season, there’s a particular sort of novel that elicits its own genre of disdain. It’s somehow “too personal” and also lacking in “depth.” It’s called things like indulgent, trashy, lazy, ...

To hear powerhouse sports agent Drew Rosenhaus tell it, his client, the once-electric receiver Tyreek Hill, could sign with a ...

In the 1870s, as the research ship HMS Challenger passed through the Philippines during its circumnavigation of the Earth, it dredged up a sponge from the gray sludge 95 fathoms (nearly 600 feet) ...

This week’s episode of Nothing But Respect was special on several fronts: Harry and I got to record in person for the first time in roughly a year, and we did so with our good friends at Hell Gate, ...

You’ve been fighting it off as best you can, but the weight of the evidence is starting to hit your hips, knees and ankles in a series of small electric spasms. You’ve tried to explain it away as ...