Drew Magary on the Myles Garrett trade:

We're all free now.

"The name of the game is the pursuit of more pretend money, and it isn't any more dignified or reasonable than it sounds."

The gap between being a fun, lively team in the middle and being a real contender is a gulf.

"It’s admittedly harder to sell a version of 'Backrooms' where Chiwetel Ejiofor and Renate Reinsve walk around for two hours. And yet that’s exactly when the film is most compelling." defector.com/backrooms-do...

there was a great main event in Monterrey this weekend that I really struggled to wrap my head around defector.com/el-grande-am...

I have a million things on Defector today, including the great Hanif Abdurraqib on Nothing But Respect! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/o...

FUNBAG! I wager you’ll like this one! defector.com/there-are-mo...

There are more Brendan Sorsbys to come: defector.com/there-are-mo...

Jonas Vingegaard rides free: defector.com/jonas-vingeg...

Colombia’s almost too old for this shit: defector.com/colombias-al...

One must imagine Sisyphus dunking, with Hanif Abdurraqib: defector.com/one-must-ima...

There's no such thing as an inevitable team in the NBA: defector.com/theres-no-su...

Defector's TWO summer editorial interns started this week! Say hello to Sohini Desai... defector.com/a-non-exhaus...

Let birds masturbate: defector.com/let-birds-ma...

Beam team's esteemed dreams once deemed reamed, now redeemed with new regimes: defector.com/beam-teams-e...

How did a C-tier WWE guy from Germany become one of the most popular luchadores in Mexico?

Playing a baseball simulator made me a fanatic again: defector.com/playing-a-ba...

What the fuck are the Rams doing? defector.com/what-the-fuc...

Senegal's bringing a good team and some nasty vibes to the World Cup: defector.com/senegals-bri...

Joao Fonseca has created more chaos at the French Open: defector.com/joao-fonseca...

Boring dunce Nick Bilton hounded out of first meeting with '60 Minutes' staffers: defector.com/boring-dunce...

RIP to 'Euphoria,' HBO's dumbest show: defector.com/rip-to-eupho...

'Try Hard' is back, now in video form: defector.com/try-hard-is-...

The USMNT is still stuck in the middle: defector.com/the-usmnt-is...

'Backrooms' doesn't quite capture the weirdness of the originals: defector.com/backrooms-do...

Texas Tech overcomes last-ditch homer and sprinkler attack to beat UCLA: defector.com/texas-tech-o...

The Crossword, June 1: Bleus Band defector.com/the-crosswor...

MLB owners want a salary cap because they want to cash out: defector.com/mlb-owners-w...

To boo or not to boo? That's the question, Knicks fans. defector.com/to-boo-or-no...

Let's remember some literary characters: defector.com/i-am-captain...

"Now I had gone from having zero pairs of eyeglasses to having frickin' two of them, for different situations. No points for guessing that within two weeks I'd permanently misplaced one and unwittingly allowed my crazy dog to entertain herself by chewing on the other."

Defector Reads A Book discusses 'The Universal Baseball Association, Inc. J. Henry Waugh, Prop.'

Fernando Tatis Jr. finally hit a damn homer:

Playing a baseball simulator made me a fanatic again:

The idiots of the Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off recently convened at a fancy rented kitchen in Philadelphia to join one lucky reader in an attempt to produce a yule log.

There's no hiding from the Spurs: defector.com/theres-no-hi...

Well, that stunk: defector.com/well-that-st...

Try the Defector crossword!

When did the Knicks become a reliable team, and who was ritually sacrificed to make it so?

"It is impossible to know what Timmy might have been thinking as a team of—let's be honest—idiots dragged its ailing body to and fro for weeks."

Ray Ratto on Kyle Busch and Claude Lemieux:

"At the start of this year, a seismic shift occurred in my life: The number of cats I saw regularly went from zero to three."

On this week's Minor Dilemmas: How do I talk about parenting if my baby has been pretty chill so far?

“I’ll be with somebody and they’ll say to somebody, ‘Hey, this is the guy who made Heavy Metal Parking Lot!” Krulik said. “And I know what’s coming next: A blank stare."

"What a boss like that would understand about a technology like this would be limited by the laziness and anti-human ideology that defines his social cohort; it would be less about what that technology might do than the mere act of doing it." defector.com/the-new-york...

“Awfulness For Decades”: A short history of Trump and 'Doonesbury' defector.com/awfulness-fo...

The Denver Summit may not be good, but they sure are fun: defector.com/the-denver-s...

Let's Dismember Some Guys: defector.com/the-universa...

How I became an itinerant cat tutor: