The ex-girlfriend of Kansas City wide receiver Rashee Rice, Dacoda Nichole Jones, posted 14 photos to her Instagram account ...

We at The Distraction HQ do not need much of an excuse to invite ESPN NFL ace and Defector comrade emeritus Kalyn Kahler onto ...

Call it recency bias, personal interest, or perhaps just a general concern for society’s trajectory right now, but as I ...

The bad thing about the NBA regular season is that it’s too long. The good thing about it is that it’s long enough for rich, ...

By now you’ve almost certainly seen the video for yourself, or read about it: an ICE agent shooting a Minneapolis woman, ...

The San Jose Sharks, who own the eighth-best record in the Western Conference, are a top-heavy team with a lot of growing ...

Welcome to Listening Habits, a column where I share the music I’ve been fixated on recently. I did not write about it when it happened, but last year there was a bit of a manufactured crisis in rap ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

The United States invaded Venezuela late Friday, in a mission called “Operation Absolute Resolve.” The invasion, which ...

Darryn Peterson, freshman at Kansas and top prospect in the 2026 NBA draft, has something keeping him off the floor. Those ...

On Wednesday in Minneapolis, masked government agents apparently representing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) ...

Stevie Nicks famously sang the line “Lightning strikes / maybe once, maybe twice.” But on Tuesday night, Tampa Bay exceeded ...