When the NFL announced that Bad Bunny would headline this season’s Super Bowl halftime show, it made all the sense in the world, because Benito Martínez Ocasio is probably the single most versatile ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, ...

The Toronto Blue Jays needed a different script for Wednesday’s Game 4 against the New York Yankees. They’d gotten their lead in the series by socking the ball all over the damn place—six extra-base ...

One of the motivations for the new Champions League format, which debuted in the men’s game last season and now has come to ...

I just assume that no one is paying attention to anything I say. It makes the anxiety easier to manage, and is mostly correct. So you can imagine my surprise when, last weekend, Drew posted that, on ...

The professional tennis calendar might make sense if this was still the slow-paced lawn game of the previous century. But it isn’t, and hasn’t been for a long time. Every passing week intensifies the ...

This was the moment Jerry Jones could have cleaned the slate on his reputation as a brilliant businessman, Foghorn Leghorn tribune act, mirror addict and gaseous faildad, and as you may have guessed ...

On paper, all the havoc of a basketball game becomes something neat and unfeeling. However spiritually untrue it seems, this is actually true: In Game 3 of the WNBA Finals, there was only one lead ...

It’s not the sort of career-capping achievement anyone had in mind, but Bill Belichick really has done something amazing at North Carolina. He has somehow managed to make his job, which was supposed ...

The Miami-Dade Circuit Court clerk released on Tuesday a copy of the latest petition for divorce from the estranged wife of Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill. In the document, Lakeeta Vaccaro ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking ...

By default, Bill Burr exists in a state of his ass being chapped, but clearly it’s been feeling more chapped than usual. The comedian has continued to address his decision to perform at the Riyadh ...