We can presume by now that every Philadelphia 76er and Flyer who wants to do so has mouthed the empty sports platitude, ...

I’ve been trying to avoid writing about Vargas in this space,” Baseball Prospectus fantasy baseball writer Michael Waterloo ...

We have shared with you the ongoing travails of such baseball meh factories as the Mets, Phillies, Angels, Red Sox, ...

Much ass was kicked, all of it by the same foot. But for those of you who prefer 10 minutes of video to eight words of ...

"If we were in Serbia, we'd all get fired," Nikola Jokic said Thursday night, shortly after his Denver Nuggets lost their first-round playoff series in six games to the Minnesota Timberwolves, who ...

Fourteen years. My wife and I were proud minivan owners for 14 years until this month. Once you have three children, ...

Earlier this week, the Defector staff was chatting about Joel Embiid. Watching him give the business to the Boston Celtics in ...

The novelist Walter Tevis described his 1963 sci-fi novel The Man Who Fell to Earth, obliquely inspired by his struggles with ...

One walk-off win can cure you of any emotional or intellectual ailment. The smack of the bat, the moment of anticipation as ...

Converts can often seem like the only really religious people around. They tend to take their faith up, whatever it may be, with enthusiasm and vigor and, most importantly, without embarrassment; the ...

Smart money says that sports gambling scandals will be more dog-licks-man than man-bites-dog real soon. But for now, this ...