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What I knew of the eccentric baseball owner Bill Veeck, I knew only from stray web searches at White Sox games. What was a ...
Fuck, what a shit birthday,” Laurence Pithie gasps. The Kiwi rider from Red Bull has just summited the Hautacam, a winding, ...
Before Bill Nye was a Science Guy, he was the pride of Seattle. Shit, he was Seattle, in many senses. He worked as an ...
You may have once again noticed that a lot of people on TV, the internet, and in your real life are talking about files. The ...
At the beginning of every baseball career, everyone is pretty much guessing. From a certain perspective, the work of that ...
While watching the Euros quarterfinal between Sweden and England with an eye toward covering it, I kept changing my mind on what to write about. This is a side effect of my job and my brain, both of ...
There was a moment, near the end of my week-plus in Maine, when I could actually feel myself Becoming Normal again. The ...
On Wednesday, the Phoenix Suns agreed to a buyout of Bradley Beal’s contract, ending a putrid era that amounted to very ...
Victor Ortega Jiménez was visiting the Atlanta zoo with his family when he became mesmerized by a flock of Chilean flamingos.
There are only two pieces of media that have made me wistful for a small-town/suburban childhood I didn’t have: A Christmas ...
This is Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, in honor of Bills Week ...
The Buffalo Bills of my childhood are not the Buffalo Bills I live with now. They are certainly not the Buffalo Bills I’ve ...