Rich Paul's podcast was built to be useless:

for anyone craving more Alysa Liu content @yuekaxu.bsky.social has been on a tear of figure skating blogs that are simply beautiful to read and learn from defector.com/alysa-liu-is...

Threading four high-quality Olympics blogs that can be read right now on Defector dot com.

The suffering of Lindsey Vonn: defector.com/the-sufferin...

A thing that we do at Defector that I really like: explainers that don't suck defector.com/the-big-cana...

Chromosome testing will take sports back to the dark ages: defector.com/chromosome-t...

The big Canada-Sweden curling beef, explained: defector.com/the-big-cana...

Even Ilia Malinin is mortal:

When they cut back to the NBC studio after the men’s figure skating final Scott Hamilton looked like 9/11 had just happened.

kathryn does a good job articulating the ambivalence i feel toward power athletes in "artistic" disciplines. one additional problem no one is talking about is that he looks too much like jack suwinski

Famous clients bail on Casey Wasserman over gross sex emails to Ghislaine Maxwell: defector.com/famous-clien...

I wrote about the best Olympic sport defector.com/high-level-a...

Defector has published some really good Olympics blogs so far, and I am going to thread some of them here.

It’s crazy how god punishes me multiple times a year by allowing the Nuggets and Everton to both have bad losses in a 24-hour period.

What we loved about Dan McQuade:

I wrote about an extremely strange fellow from 410 million years ago defector.com/who-the-hell...

It's been really lovely reading all the tributes to Dan. Many people have asked if they can contribute to support his wife and son. You can do so here: everloved.com/life-of/dan-...

This is how the Thunder guard Jokic

From: A Very Famous Rich Guy To: Jeffrey Epstein Subj: Opening the seal I look forward to reading from the Black Book with you this weekend. May the blessings of Mammon continue to fall upon us. From: Jeffrey Epstein To: A Very Famous Rich Guy Subj: Re: Opening the seal 9 p./m.. txt wen u arive

Sixers enact intentional, then unintentional tribute to the late great Dan McQuade:

I’ve been thinking about Dan non-stop, and what I’ve come to understand is just how much I admired him. Dan built his life and moved through the world in a way I wish I could emulate more easily. I’ll keep trying, and in moments when I succeed I’ll think of him again. defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

Dan McQuade, 1983–2026: defector.com/dan-mcquade-...

The season finale of Only If You Get Caught is out today. Thank you to everyone for listening and sharing with all your most influential friends! defector.com/the-class-wa...

I wrote about prediction markets, where we’re at and how we got here for Defector

It’s a 37-12 run in the third quarter. JD’s trying to draw up a play but nobody’s listening. Miller’s at the end of the bench with a towel over his head. Trump’s just watching the mascot take half-court shots.

I have a piece today in Defector making the case for "more training" for ICE agents. A *lot* more training. defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

I have a great idea for retraining ICE agents: defector.com/i-have-a-gre...

If any of your friends or family work for DHS, you should check in on them during these difficult times. There are important conversations to be had.

Jarrett Stidham is a PROBLEM!! 🤯 ALL PASSES 😵 RUNS 😱 TDS 🥵 2025 SEASON 🤪🔥🫠

I talked with Tom Ley about our shared love for the delightfully and unnecessarily committed and entirely batshit 28 Days Later sequels. (There are spoilers in here but nothing you wouldn't have learned from reading basically any review of the films.) defector.com/we-live-in-t...

The Peyton Watson Emergence has me ready to start saying some truly reckless things about the Nuggets. Such as, "I wonder what it will look like when Jokic comes back and suddenly has prime Kawhi Leonard on his team?"

Scanning one of these QR codes and shouting “This one’s weak to necrotic damage!”

Wearing a tuxedo on a tour of the CBS studios so I can take a selfie in front of this and caption it "when it goes up it stays up 🗣️"

"If Weiss is exceptional, it's only in her knack for making a spectacle of the sort of things that slicker operators in media say and do all the time without causing too much of a fuss." @tcraggs22.bsky.social on Bari Weiss and all the Bari Weisses: defector.com/bari-weiss-i...

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

JD Vance: meanwhile ICE agents are ::checks notes:: literally storing trauma in their whole ass bodies????

ICE agent kills woman, DHS tells obvious, insane lies about it: defector.com/ice-agent-ki...

Hi friends. I’m taking some time off for chemo. Not the way I wanted to start 2026, but it’s a necessary step. I’ll be trying to stay disconnected. I hope you can keep me in your prayers as I continue treatment.

This all happened to one guy. defector.com/what-horribl...

A couple weeks after going to their live podcast taping in San Jose, I spoke with Tobin Heath and Christen Press about their ever-shifting relationship with the public, covering a generation of stars with a quieter approach to politics and labor issues, the NWSL salary cap, and more:

Here are a few great blogs from Defector's 2025, starting with Chris Thompson's comprehensive and maddening history of Color Star, would-be titans of just about anything: defector.com/a-comprehens...

Enjoyed this review of Martin Foremost from E.Y. Zhao.

Here’s my impression of every scene in Stranger Things. Character A: OK so here’s my theory Character B: Alright.

Best thing about the Bari Weiss disaster is she can’t even try to save face by positioning herself as the voice of reason bringing CBS’ millennial wokes to heel. Scott Pelley is old as hell. Sharyn Alfonsi’s been doing this since the 90s.

These are Defector's favorite sports moments of 2025: defector.com/our-favorite...

who calls the shots where you get your news? defector.com/products

The point in every Rian Johnson movie when one of his characters inevitably says something about "libtards" or "cucks" or "substack."

GREAT NEWS! This year’s Williams-Sonoma catalog is powered by AI! defector.com/the-2025-hat...

I hopped in here to write about how effectively Reiner turned his warm visual language into something terrifying in Misery:

CBS News hitches its wagon to these two duds: defector.com/cbs-news-hit...