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Defector is an employee-owned sports and culture website. We write about sports, politics, TV, movies, science, weird shit that happens on the internet, and anything else that catches our attention, because we believe that a good publication is one that reflects the genuine interests and obsessions of its staff. We started this company because media […]
Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Las Vegas Raiders - Defector
Aug 8, 2024 · Some people are fans of the Raiders, and we’ll deal with you later. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Raiders. This 2024 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here Your Team: The Las Vegas Raiders. AhhhhHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!! Your 2023 record: 8-9, and that’s […]
Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Chicago Bears - Defector
Aug 2, 2024 · Some people are fans of the Chicago Bears. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Chicago Bears. This 2024 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Chicago Bears. Please don’t do the “Da Bears” thing. Society moved on long ago. […]
Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Indianapolis Colts | Defector
Aug 12, 2024 · Some people are fans of the Indianapolis Colts. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Indianapolis Colts. This 2024 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Indianapolis Colts. Ever wonder what would happen if Hunter Biden owned a football team? […]
Why Your Team Sucks 2024: Green Bay Packers - Defector
Aug 26, 2024 · Some people are fans of the Green Bay Packers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Green Bay Packers. This 2024 Defector NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Show the pick. Full disclosure: I am a Vikings fan. As such, […]
Can Someone Please Write Normally About This Fascinating …
Nov 20, 2024 · Augusta Britt has had, by any reasonable accounting, an extraordinarily rich and interesting life, and seems like a vivid and fascinating person. By her mid-teens in the mid-1970s, she was a pistol-packing Arizona refugee from her own abusive family and any number of atrocious foster homes. She met the novelist Cormac McCarthy by a motel […]
Marc Caputo Leaves NBC News One Week After Gloating About …
Feb 1, 2023 · Politics reporter Marc Caputo announced on Tuesday that he is leaving his job at NBC News. This sudden career change comes one week after Caputo spent a day chronicling on Instagram his recent eviction of a tenant renting a home Caputo owns in Key West, through screenshots of text conversations with the tenant and property manager.
What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year? | Defector
Dec 25, 2024 · Do you realize that this is the 12th year we’ve run this series? Time really flies when you don’t have something lodged up your butt. But for those of you who do, read on to see if you made this year’s list of the weirdest stuff that entered America’s orifices. If …
Nobody Is Doing It Like De’Aaron Fox - defector.com
Nov 18, 2024 · If you want to understand what makes De’Aaron Fox’s game so effective and cool, the most important thing to understand is something of a signature Fox play: the surprise fast break. Several times per game, while the opposing team is in the process of setting up its halfcourt defense with obvious spatial and manpower advantages, […]
This Place Is All Fucked Up | Defector
Nov 6, 2024 · It doesn’t appear to have been close. Georgia flipped for Trump. Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, too. The Blue Wall crumbled like Jericho’s. Just about everywhere voted redder than in 2020. Young people went right. New York City went right. The polls said what they said, but then Americans went to the voting booth and said what […]