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This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

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Rachelle Hampton

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Justin Ellis

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Defector At The Movies

Defector Watches A Christmas Movie: ‘The Merry Gentlemen’

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Firefighters Wash Up After Forest Fire

Defector Reads A Book

Racing With Mortality In Norman Maclean’s ‘Young Men And Fire’

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Love Is Blind Cast Celebrates Netflix’s First Live Reunion With The Iconic Pods In Los Angeles

Could Unionizing Protect Contestants From The Reality Of Reality TV?

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Kelsey McKinney

Normal Gossip: 2024

Podcasts

Welcome To The New Era Of Normal Gossip

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Arts And Culture

When Will The ‘Wicked’ Press Campaign End?

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Wildfires In New Jersey Bring Smokey Haze To New York City

Climate

It Was Too Warm This Week

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‘Culinary Class Wars’ Is A Tribute To Getting Your Reps In

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It’s Totally Cool That I Didn’t Get To See The Northern Lights. Seriously! I Promise!!

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‘The Golden Bachelorette’ Is Like A Wildlife Cam But For Old Dudes Who Rock

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Gymnastics

Flávia Saraiva Remains A Star

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The Trade Is The Cruelest Thing In Sports

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Kara Swisher In Conversation With Crooked Media Founders – 2017 SXSW Conference and Festivals

‘Survivor’ Should Bring Back Jon Lovett Just So He Can Bomb Again

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In Rumaan Alam’s ‘Entitlement,’ Money Comes At The Expense Of Everything Else

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What Exactly Happened With The Fruity Pebbles?

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David Millar Portrait Shoot

Writing Is An Act, Not An Aesthetic

Visitors examine the exhibition as The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City presents the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transtlantic Modernism which includes some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera in New York, United States on February 20, 2024.The exhibition opens in Black History Month, is honoring the triumphs and struggles of African Americans throughout U.S. history.

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Defector Music Club Is So Brat

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An Ode To Strip Mall Pho

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“It Ends With Us” New York Premiere – Arrivals

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