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Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. The first round of ...

New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs has been charged with one count of felony strangulation or suffocation, and ...

This is what the Defector staff enjoyed eating in 2025. Objectively Mid Sichuan In Grenoble No matter your opinion on the ...

I think this game is over,” said play-by-play announcer Elise Woodward during Monday night’s Michigan-Oregon women’s ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

Told one way, the story of Major League Baseball’s steroid era is a fairly simple tale: Jose Canseco and the sluggers of the ...

Marty Supreme’s title card is a stream of sperm swimming up a vaginal canal. They fertilize an egg, which becomes a white ...

When news broke this weekend that an elusive, endangered wildcat was spotted in Thailand for the first time in three decades, ...

If you can name just one current college hockey player, I bet it’s freshman Penn State winger Gavin McKenna. After carving up ...

The Colts did it. After beginning the season with a record of 8–2, Indianapolis has now been eliminated from the playoffs. It ...

This is what the Defector staff read and enjoyed in 2025. The Trials of Gabriel Ward Murder Mystery Series, by Sally Smith ...