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The last good website.
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Sabrina Imbler
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breaking!!!!!!! spider web!!!!!!!! news!!!!!!!!
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Drop Whatever You're Doing Right This Instant, There's Big Spider Web News | Defector
After a brief foray into creatures big, flashy, and famous, we must return to form and focus on the spineless, creepy, and crawling. Today weāre shining a spotlight on one of the most loathĆØd creepy-c...
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Drew Magary
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āThe joy of any puzzle is not in solving it, but in figuring out how to solve it
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Pips Understands The True Joy Of Puzzle-Solving | Defector
Drew Magaryās Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute?Ā Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE,...
https://defector.com/pips-understands-the-true-joy-of-puzzle-solving
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It's time for the penultimate Defector Thursday Night Trivia of 2025! We've got the one and only
@davidjroth.bsky.social
on hosting duties this evening, so come on down. We're live here:
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Even by his lofty standards, Nikola Jokic is on one:
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Even By His Lofty Standards, Nikola Jokic Is On One | Defector
Nikola Jokic had another one of those what the hell is happening right now performances Wednesday night, against the unbelievably depressing Los Angeles Clippers, posting 55 points on 23 shots, plusā¦
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The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off refuses to make 31 individual madeleine cookies, takes charge of its own destiny:
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The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off Says "Pooh-Pooh" To The Grand Finale | Defector
Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own homeā¦
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On this week's Distraction, Stefan Fatsis talks about the Merriam-Webster Dictionary.
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The Man Who Defined "Sheeple," With Stefan Fatsis | Defector
Stefan Fatsis went 17 years between books, but you wouldnāt say that he was taking it easy. He was on NPR and co-hosted Slateās Hang Up and Listen podcast for many years, and was writing big featureā¦
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JAMBOROO: Pips understands the true joy of puzzle-solving
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Pips Understands The True Joy Of Puzzle-Solving | Defector
Drew Magaryās Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute?Ā Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over atā¦
https://defector.com/pips-understands-the-true-joy-of-puzzle-solving
about 5 hours ago
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Drop whatever youāre doing right this instant, thereās big spider web news:
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Drop Whatever You're Doing Right This Instant, There's Big Spider Web News | Defector
After a brief foray into creatures big, flashy, and famous, we must return to form and focus on the spineless, creepy, and crawling. Today weāre shining a spotlight on one of the most loathĆØdā¦
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Hi! I wrote a thing about swimming and trans athletes and [*checks notes*] Santana for
@defector.com
, would mean a lot if you give it a read
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What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. Iāve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticksāwhat feels the least to...
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What does a great trans athlete deserve?
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What Does A Great Trans Athlete Deserve? | Defector
Once every week or two, I swim molasses-slow laps at the YMCA. Iāve been on something of a fitness journey this year, testing out different forms of exercise to see what sticksāwhat feels the leastā¦
https://defector.com/what-does-a-great-trans-athlete-deserve
about 7 hours ago
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It should be illegal to unleash Hannah Hidalgo on the Akron Zips:
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It Should Be Illegal To Unleash Hannah Hidalgo On The Akron Zips | Defector
It is that time of year when college basketball programs fatten themselves up on inferior competition, which makes for a lot of games that can be safely ignored. But wait, before you skim over theā¦
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āBugoniaā makes a crash landing:
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āBugoniaā Makes A Crash Landing | Defector
āI know you want there to be a master plan,ā the kidnapping victim says to her captor. In Bugonia, the latest movie by Yorgos Lanthimos, Emma Stone plays girlboss biotech CEO Michelle Fuller, andā¦
https://defector.com/yorgos-lanthimos-bugonia-review
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FUNBAG:
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Big Words Are Big Fun | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SF GATE, and buy Drewās books while youāre at it. Today, weāreā¦
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about 22 hours ago
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Kelsey McKinney on 'Frankenstein,' the book and the movie.
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Guillermo del Toro's āFrankensteinā Is Flawed Because His Creature Is Not | Defector
Guillermo del Toro has devoted much of his career to sanctifying monsters. In his first feature film, Cronos, an aging antique dealer stumbles into eternal life, becoming a vampire who, rather thanā¦
https://defector.com/guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-is-flawed-because-his-creature-is-not
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For decades, paleontologists have been terrorized by the notion of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. Enter Nanotyrannus.
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Let Us Now Celebrate Our Extinct Short King, Nanotyrannus | Defector
For decades, paleontologists have been terrorized by the notion of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. Starting in the 1940s, excavations unearthed skulls belonging to what appeared to be smaller and moreā¦
https://defector.com/let-us-now-celebrate-our-extinct-short-king-nanotyrannus
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Concern that gambling threatens the integrity of sports is not a matter of "moralizing mythmaking" and never has been; it is a simple preference on the part of viewers and fans for the sports they watch to be broadly legitimate competitions.
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Everybody Stand Down: New Yorker Columnist's Child Doesn't Care About Sports Gambling | Defector
In the final hours before the Nov. 1 UFC bout between featherweights Isaac Dulgarian and Yadier Del Valle, the betting odds on Dulgarian, the favorite, abruptly dropped from -250, meaning a bettorā¦
https://defector.com/everybody-stand-down-new-yorker-columnists-child-doesnt-care-about-sports-gambling
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Lauren Theisen
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for the first time in many years I think it's worth going out of your way to watch some San Jose Sharks games.
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The Sharks Smell Blood | Defector
The San Jose Sharks have been beneath your notice for years. As this formerly stalwart franchise has missed the playoffs in six straight seasons, theyāve existed as a total non-competitive nothing tha...
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Newly released Jeffrey Epstein emails claim that Donald Trump āknew about the girls.ā
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Newly Released Jeffrey Epstein Emails Claim That Donald Trump "Knew About The Girls" | Defector
Democrats in the House Oversight Committee released on Wednesday a new batch of emails from Jeffrey Epstein, the deceased sex criminal who was notoriously in contact with all sorts of powerfulā¦
https://defector.com/newly-released-jeffrey-epstein-emails-claim-that-donald-trump-knew-about-the-girls
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This is not the start Cooper Flagg wanted:
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This Is Not The Start Cooper Flagg Wanted | Defector
Regardless of whether they authored the most disastrous trade of the century, or considered Jrue Holiday and Nikola Jokic to be equal talents, a general manager getting fired 11 games into the seasonā¦
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The Sharks smell blood:
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The Sharks Smell Blood | Defector
The San Jose Sharks have been beneath your notice for years. As this formerly stalwart franchise has missed the playoffs in six straight seasons, theyāve existed as a total non-competitive nothingā¦
https://defector.com/the-sharks-smell-blood
1 day ago
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A brief tour through the bad parts of the NBA, with Ock Sportello:
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A Brief Tour Through The Bad Parts Of The NBA, With Ock Sportello | Defector
Harry and I did not know that Nico Harrison was about to be fired when we invited famed blogger Ock Sportello back on Nothing But Respect this week, but the timing worked out perfectly, as ourā¦
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"It is not a good feeling to pay $10.99 per month for a streaming service, largely for the purpose of watching sports, and then be presented with persistent pop-up ads for some dumb bullcrap that not even a baby would find entertaining."
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Am I A Bug To You? | Defector
Some NBA games are starting at 11:00 p.m. ET. This is a new development coinciding with the league striking a new broadcast deal with NBC, which aired Tuesday nightās NuggetsāKings game on theā¦
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This week's guest on Normal Gossip is Malala Yousafzai!
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Who Said Malala Doesnāt Like To Gossip? | Defector
Weāre back, baby! And weāre kicking off our ninth season of Normal Gossip by gabbing it up with Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai!Ā In this episode, Rachelle and Malala dig into such questions asā¦
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1 day ago
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Make It Nice: How much can one room do?
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Make It Nice: How Much Can One Room Do? | Defector
Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defectorās best interior design advice column. Today we have drill-less art hanging, an extremely deep closet, and a room with too many jobs. Mario asks: Veronica, hi!ā¦
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1 day ago
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Turkish soccer is eating America's lunch when it comes to gambling suspensions:
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Turkish Soccer Is Eating America's Lunch When It Comes To Gambling Suspensions | Defector
America may have invented match fixing back in the first decades of the twentieth century, and we may be bringing it back in this one with new gambling scandals inĀ basketballĀ andĀ baseball, but atā¦
https://defector.com/turkish-soccer-is-eating-americas-lunch-when-it-comes-to-gambling-suspensions
1 day ago
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The real Marty Supreme:
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The Real Marty Supreme | Defector
In the winter of 1977, Sports Illustrated reporter Ray Kennedy ventured into the Riverside Table Tennis club at 96th and Broadway. It was a dingy joint with leaky pipes, below street level, beneath aā¦
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1 day ago
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The Kings are an abomination:
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2 days ago
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What's one rigged pitch?
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Drew Magary
2 days ago
FUNBAG TIME!!!
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Big Words Are Big Fun | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SF GATE, and buy Drewās books while youāre at it. Today, weāre talking...
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Sabrina Imbler
2 days ago
I wrote about one of my ancestors is finally seen as valid :') representation matters
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Let Us Now Celebrate Our Extinct Short King, Nanotyrannus | Defector
For decades, paleontologists have been terrorized by the notion of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. Starting in the 1940s, excavations unearthed skulls belonging to what appeared to be smaller and more sl...
https://defector.com/let-us-now-celebrate-our-extinct-short-king-nanotyrannus
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Kelsey McKinney
2 days ago
having read both versions of frankenstein and a book of criticism and a novel based on frankenstein in the last monthā¦ i am happy to release my creature (this blog)
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Guillermo del Toro's āFrankensteinā Is Flawed Because His Creature Is Not | Defector
Guillermo del Toro has devoted much of his career to sanctifying monsters. In his first feature film, Cronos, an aging antique dealer stumbles into eternal life, becoming a vampire who, rather than be...
https://defector.com/guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-is-flawed-because-his-creature-is-not
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Big words are big fun:
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Big Words Are Big Fun | Defector
Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SF GATE, and buy Drewās books while youāre at it. Today, weāreā¦
https://defector.com/big-words-are-big-fun
2 days ago
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Guillermo del Toroās āFrankensteinā is flawed because his creature is not:
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Guillermo del Toro's āFrankensteinā Is Flawed Because His Creature Is Not | Defector
Guillermo del Toro has devoted much of his career to sanctifying monsters. In his first feature film, Cronos, an aging antique dealer stumbles into eternal life, becoming a vampire who, rather thanā¦
https://defector.com/guillermo-del-toros-frankenstein-is-flawed-because-his-creature-is-not
2 days ago
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Chris Thompson
2 days ago
contribute to our tip jar and enter the raffle to journey on our dime and either watch us flail around in a rented professional kitchen (option 1) or flail around in a rented professional kitchen alongside us (option 2)
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Help Secure Our Financial Independence By Infiltrating The Great Blogger Bake Shop | Defector
Last year, Defectorās operations geniuses submitted our annual Tip Jar drives for consideration in the Online Journalism Awards category of āInnovation in Revenue Strategyā for mid-size newsrooms. We ...
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Connor McDavid broke the Blue Jackets:
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Connor McDavid Broke The Blue Jackets | Defector
Buying a ticket to an Edmonton Oilers game does not in itself guarantee youāll see Connor McDavid do something so spectacular youāll remember it for the rest of your life. From my personalā¦
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2 days ago
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Nico Harrison is toast:
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Nico Harrison Is Toast | Defector
The Dallas Mavericks fired team president Nico Harrison today, a development that was leaked to multiple reporters and then confirmed in an open letter from Mavericks owner Patrick Dumont. This cameā¦
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2 days ago
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There is no one to cheer for in the case of Brian Kelly v. LSU
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There Is No One To Cheer For In The Case Of Brian Kelly v. LSU | Defector
Somewhere thereās a judge in Louisiana who isnāt hooked into a political machine and canāt be bought by oneāmaybe. And that is the judge, should he or she actually exist, who should hear Brianā¦
https://defector.com/there-is-no-one-to-cheer-for-in-the-case-of-brian-kelly-v-lsu
2 days ago
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giri nathan
3 days ago
wrote about the strange scenario at the WTA Finals
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Turkbert Cransauceko
2 days ago
i blogged it
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The Heat and Cavs played the wildest eight seconds of the season:
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The Heat And Cavs Played The Wildest Eight Seconds Of The Season
The Miami Heat and Cleveland Cavaliers played one of the best games of this young NBA season on Monday night. You might have missed it while watching one of the other āone of the best games of thisā¦
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Let us now celebrate our extinct short king, Nanotyrannus:
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Let Us Now Celebrate Our Extinct Short King, Nanotyrannus | Defector
For decades, paleontologists have been terrorized by the notion of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. Starting in the 1940s, excavations unearthed skulls belonging to what appeared to be smaller and moreā¦
https://defector.com/let-us-now-celebrate-our-extinct-short-king-nanotyrannus
2 days ago
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In āDie My Love,ā motherhood is a mad mad mad world:
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In 'Die My Love,' Motherhood Is A Mad Mad Mad World | Defector
In 1974, John Cassavetes released A Woman Under the Influence, starring Gena Rowlands as a mother going through a mental breakdown. I canāt imagine that people at the time were ready for such anā¦
https://defector.com/in-die-my-love-motherhood-is-a-mad-mad-mad-world
2 days ago
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Everybody stand down: New Yorker columnistās child doesnāt care about sports gambling
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Everybody Stand Down: New Yorker Columnist's Child Doesn't Care About Sports Gambling | Defector
In the final hours before the Nov. 1 UFC bout between featherweights Isaac Dulgarian and Yadier Del Valle, the betting odds on Dulgarian, the favorite, abruptly dropped from -250, meaning a bettorā¦
https://defector.com/everybody-stand-down-new-yorker-columnists-child-doesnt-care-about-sports-gambling
2 days ago
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Elena Rybakina reigned over a tour that suspended her coach for abuse:
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Elena Rybakina Reigned Over A Tour That Suspended Her Coach For Abuse | Defector
After dominating a field of her most dangerous peers, and claiming $5.2 millionāthe largest purse in the history of pro tennis, menās or womenāsāElena Rybakina held up the champās trophy at the WTAā¦
https://defector.com/elena-rybakina-reigned-over-a-tour-that-suspended-her-coach-for-abuse
3 days ago
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3 days ago
The Sacramento Kings are an abomination:
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The Kings Are An Abomination | Defector
SACRAMENTO, Calif. āĀ During the break between the first and second quarters, the Sacramento Kings interrupted one anti-competitive spectacle with another. Six babies lined up to race, only to hear the...
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The Kings are an abomination:
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The Kings Are An Abomination | Defector
SACRAMENTO, Calif. āĀ During the break between the first and second quarters, the Sacramento Kings interrupted one anti-competitive spectacle with another. Six babies lined up to race, only to hearā¦
https://defector.com/the-kings-are-an-abomination
3 days ago
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The New York Giants finally saw enough from Brian Daboll:
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The New York Giants Finally Saw Enough From Brian Daboll | Defector
The Greater New York Football Playing Area has enjoyed the invigorating sensation of firing a coach nearly every year for the last decade and changeā2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, andā¦
https://defector.com/the-new-york-giants-finally-saw-enough-from-brian-daboll
3 days ago
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Whatās left for Deion Sanders and Colorado?
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What's Left For Deion Sanders And Colorado? | Defector
After losing to West Virginia on Saturday, the Buffaloes are officially out of contention for the bowl games this year. Despite the 29-22 final score, the game was never really in doubt for Westā¦
https://defector.com/whats-left-for-deion-sanders-and-colorado
3 days ago
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What's one rigged pitch?
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What's One Rigged Pitch? | Defector
Insofar as there is any small thing in baseball, one pitch is as discrete as it can get. If you are a good pitcherāat one point, say, the best relief pitcher in baseballāyou can work around aā¦
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It's time to take Sunderland seriously.
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Sunderland Doesn't Need To Die To Get To Heaven
Itās time to take Sunderland seriously. Coming into the season, I never imagined Iād be saying that, even if I felt that the Black Cats were not going to be easy relegation fodder. Thatās just theā¦
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