This week we are launching The Span, Defector’s first and only culture newsletter. Every other week, we will collect the best ...

A lot of folks don’t like the NHL’s current playoff format, which tries its best to sequester teams within their own ...

What’s the difference between betting on sports and “trading on a prediction market?” For the gambler herself, very little.

The colonial travelogue was already a bloated genre by the time Jonathan Swift decided to poke fun at it in the 1720s. London ...

You can tell a lot about a college basketball fan by what they miss. Cut me open and the concentric rings of idle sentiment ...

I’m a sucker for contrarian tournament picks. Sure, I could spend some time telling you why a one-seed is going to win the ...

Nothing But Respect is a little late this week, due to a small error that I explain here at the opening of the episode. We had Tyler Parker of The Ringer on this week, because he’s an Oklahoma City ...

As my variously diseased sports-watching habits go, my fondness for college basketball feels like the most disreputable. The Mets are a family thing. West Coast MLB and NBA games, between teams I ...

The NCAA men’s tournament begins today, and I hope that you’ve got everything you need on hand to enjoy the games when they tip off later this afternoon. Beer? Check. Pre-scheduled takeout order for ...

It’s been a bit of a tough go for newspaper readers in the San Francisco Bay Area this past week, not that it necessarily matters to the outside world. Two longtime staples of the sporting palaver ...

Whose puck is it? Jack Hughes’s overtime goal to win Olympic gold is hockey history, maybe the single most important physical object in American hockey history. You could make the case for some ...

And here we see a shining example of the main peril of using sports as a reason to wrap oneself in the flag. When you look ...