Dan McQuade, our friend and colleague, died this week at the age of 43. He is survived by his wife and young son. At the end ...

We interrupt our ongoing tribute to Comrade McQuade to provide a score from Thursday night: The Philadelphia 76ers defeated ...

The Washington Post’s suicide-by-1,000-cuts business plan is going swimmingly. Word of the most recent act of self-harm came ...

The origin of Michael Connelly’s new true crime podcast, Killer in the Code, was a rather far-fetched tip fielded by Rick ...

NFL rumor pixies Dianna Russini and Adam Schefter are on the record as saying that there may not be any NFL head coaching ...

What they say is true: you watch less tennis when you cover a major tournament in person. I can tell you that 15 journalists ...

If Bill Belichick was willing to play to type today, he would rise in Uppermost Dudgeon—it’s a suburb of Foxborough—and say ...

The Tour Down Under loves its kangaroo iconography. Any given cycling season only truly begins once everyone gets to see ...

Paul Allen, longtime play-by-play announcer for the Minnesota Vikings and “the voice” of the Minnesota Vikings Radio Network, ...

Because tennis is thinly disguised psychological torture, it is not a surprise when a tennis player looks like they are ...

This isn’t the finale we imagined for Season 9, but as 2025 and 2026 have illustrated, time will keep passing and things will ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...