As any broadcast crew will point out the second he starts cooking, Jamal Murray owns a strange and wondrous NBA distinction: No player increases their scoring average more between the regular season ...

Certain friends make you braver. Sure, you might call friends like this a “bad influence,” but adventures with them are always memorable.  However, when giggling with your friend over getting kicked ...

If—if!—one wanted to identify a trend, one might point out the successive results in the Maple Leafs–Senators series. In Game 1 the Leafs dominated. Games 2 and 3 required overtime to settle, with ...

Dads can be embarrassing. The flashlight on their smart phone is always on for no reason, they put way too much effort into ...

With the removal of the away goals rule, Champions League matchups have tended towards more open play and riskier attacks in search of goals, particularly in the first legs. It makes sense. Without ...

The WNBA is back in May! Join Defector and your fellow WNBA fans for a night of stand up, games, giveaways, and special guests as we all get amped up for the new WNBA season. (Pals, check your daily ...

Madyson Miller’s Florida childhood was almost like a crash course in marine biology. She grew up going to the beach and going ...

Todd Golden smiled as the orange and blue confetti fell around him. He had accomplished what no Florida Gators men’s ...

Jack Hanson is an associate editor at The Yale Review and a lecturer in English at Yale University. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The New York Review of Books, The Drift, ...

Curzio Malaparte was the shape-shifting Zelig of the catastrophe of Italian fascism, a political and social operator of such ...

The Colorado Rockies got a big early homer against the Atlanta Braves Monday, off the bat of designated hitter Hunter Goodman ...

One reason the NBA playoffs are great is that the postseason’s competitive structure and tactical complexity make something ...