Like all worthwhile endeavours, the (semi)annual celebration of independent record store culture called Record Store Day ...

Wow, I can’t believe this. After having been separated for more than a year, the Reacher Creatures have once again come back ...

Ja Morant is no longer pretending to shoot a gun after hitting big shots. Potentially bad news for Adam Silver: Ja Morant is ...

Growing up in Florida, I have always maintained that the state as a whole should be thought of as America’s id. Florida is ...

I haven’t been as excited to see a movie as I was to see Drop in possibly years. I saw the trailer a couple of months ago at the beginning of some other movie I don’t remember, and this is how the ...

While all of the reasons to be morally opposed to the Paris Saint-Germain sportswashing project still apply, it must be said that the team as presently constituted is exceptionally cool. This ...

Different types of baseball careers have different kinds of shapes. Many, most, don’t have any shape at all; they unfold ...

It is a longstanding workplace value at Defector not to take journalism too seriously. The work, however serious it might be ...

For somebody who followed Alexander Ovechkin’s chase for as long and closely as I had, I didn’t get much fun out of his ...

Giving up a walk is more shameful than giving up a hit. Nibbling at the edge of the zone is cowardice; the Seattle Mariners’ ...

The Masters is teeing off this morning, in all of its stately glory. The green jacket. The azaleas in full bloom. The ...

It’s Halloween 2006, and I’m standing in the middle of the Val Air Ballroom in Des Moines, Iowa. My bangs are side-swept and ...