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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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Enter Our Raffle To Win A Visit And Home-Cooked Meal From Drew Magary

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Samer Kalaf

The Gaza Solidarity Encampment at Columbia University.

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Politics

The Crackdown Explains The Protest

Caitlin Clark daps up Jake From State Farm, for some reason, at the WNBA Draft

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This Is So Stupid

Send Jake To A Farm Upstate

Brock Burke pitches for the Texas Rangers

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Rangers’ Brock Burke Disrupts Recent Spate Of Pitcher Elbow Injuries, Breaks His Hand

Palestinian children are standing next to a bombed-out WCK vehicle in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip.

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The Exchange Rate On Palestinian Life

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Journalismism

Second Iteration Of Deadspin Now Also Dead

Palestinians, who are unable to meet their basic needs due to the Israeli army's obstruction of humanitarian aid, receive a bag of flour from an aid truck that arrived at al-Rashid Street in the west of Gaza City, Gaza.

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The Status Quo In Gaza Is Death

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The New York Times Ignores Intense Scrutiny Of Its Oct. 7 Report

Thomas Friedman of the New York Times doing a PBS interview

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New York Times Pays Thomas Friedman To Compare The Middle East To Bugs

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The New York Times’ David Leonhardt Turns In A Nasty Piece Of Work

Head coach Mike McCarthy of the Dallas Cowboys watches action during the second half of the NFC Wild Card Playoff game against the Green Bay Packers

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It’s Time To Make Fun Of The Bamboozling Disgrace That Is The Dallas Cowboys

A view of an ESPN Monday Night Football logo on a TV camera.

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If The NFL Buys A Stake In ESPN, Expect More Ass-Kissing

Patrick Mahomes of the Chiefs has a cracked helmet during Saturday's playoff game against the Dolphins.

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Have You Heard? It Was Cold In Kansas City

Christian Harris drags Joe Flacco to the ground in the Browns-Texans wild card game.

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The Texans Send Joe Flacco Back To His Couch

Palestinians carry a list of Gaza victims during a rally amid a general strike in the occupied West Bank.

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Palestinian Suffering Is Never As Urgent As The Counterfactual

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David Tepper Got What He Paid For With Frank Reich

Deion Sanders jogs onto the field with the Colorado Buffaloes

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College Football

Deion Sanders’s First Season At Colorado Ends With A Whimper

Premature babies are moved from their incubators to another location at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza.

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Hamas Will Be Anywhere That Israel Wants It To Be

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A.J. Hawk’s Role On ‘The Pat McAfee Show’ Seems To Be Easily Deceivable NPC

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Giri Nathan

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Podcasts

A Stumble Of Keriths, With Kerith Burke

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Racquet Magazine’s Future Up In The Air After One Cofounder Removes The Other

Names For Revolutionaries, With Edward Onaci

Named By The Stars, With Naveen Farrani

Palestinians in Gaza carry bodies through the street

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Bearing Witness To Gaza’s Grief Shouldn’t Feel Like A Radical Act

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Patrick Redford

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WNBA

Liberty Fans Found Weeping After Realization That The Aces Are Matchless

How Your Name Can Determine Your Opportunities, With Xian Zhao