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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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Merch v3

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Albert Burneko

HISTORY Presents HISTORYTalks

Life Lessons

Fake It Until You Make It (A Worse Planet For Everyone To Live On)

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Kelsey McKinney

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On Being Perceived

Felix Kent

TOKYO, JAPAN - JANUARY 30: A local surfer is seen in action with Mount Fuji in the background from the beach of Enoshima during the build up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games on January 30, 2020 in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The venue will hold the sailing events. (Photo by Clive Rose/Getty Images)

General Views Around Tokyo ahead of 2020 Olympic Games

As You Know, Jeff, Every Time I Stare Into The Abyss It Stares Back At Me

Columnist. Author of many <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Drew-Magary/e/B001JS8R52/ref=dp_byline_cont_pop_book_1">fine works of literature</a>, including Point B. Handsomest man in the world.

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Drew Magary

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It’s Me, The Unwanted Advice–Giver

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Ray Ratto

PHOENIX, ARIZONA - MAY 31: Fans of the New York Mets cheer as Jacob deGrom #48 bats against the Arizona Diamondbacks during the third inning of the MLB game at Chase Field on May 31, 2021 in Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

New York Mets v Arizona Diamondbacks

Booing Isn’t Bad, But There’s A Better Way

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Lauren Theisen

ITALY-ECONOMY-GAMBLING-BINGO RE

Every Casino Game Is Out To Get You. Even The Free One.

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Media Meltdowns

Either Wirecutter Or I Are Doing Toilet Brush Ownership EXTREMELY Wrong

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Samer Kalaf

A Margherita pie is served at the famous Lombardi's Pizza amid the COVID-19 pandemic on July 07, 2020 in New York, New York.

Re-opening Continues Across Densely Populated New York And New Jersey Areas

Consider The Pizza Dilemma

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Barry Petchesky

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Laura Wagner

1934: Profile view of French actor Maurice Chevalier drinking a glass of water while seated in a folding chair on the set of director Ernst Lubitsch's film, 'The Merry Widow'. Chevalier wears a military uniform.

French Poise

Barry And Laura Recommend: Glass Of Water

Investigations Editor. You can reach her at diana@defector.com or, if you prefer protonmail, dfmoskovitz@protonmail.com. If security is a concern, download the Signal app and send her a text at 929-251-8187.

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Diana Moskovitz

Coming back from collect water, a woman, deprived of drinking water in her house, pushes a wheelbarrow containing a large pitcher of water on August 03, 1990 in Saint-Martin-des-Besaces, France.

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Kelsey And Diana Recommend: Giant Water Bottle

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A woman rests and tans near a lake in the Bois de Boulogne near Paris, in June 1946, during a heat wave at the beginning of the 1946 summer.

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Can I Point You To The Dew Point?

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Boxing fans watch a televised fight between Albert Finch of Britain and Baby Day (Lewis Warren) of the USA, in a bar, UK, 7th February 1950. Day won on points.

Televised Boxing Match

How To Watch Sports, According To The Defector Staff

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Worst Places To Get A Sunburn, Ranked

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Attention! It Is Cherry Season!

The crew of NASA's STS-30 mission pose in front of the mid-deck starboard wall-mounted sleep restraints on the Space Shuttle Atlantis (Orbiter Vehicle OV 104), 8th May 1989. Clockwise from top right, they are Commander David M Walker, mission specialists Mary L Cleave, Mark C Lee and Norman E Thagard, and pilot Ronald J Grabe. They are wearing red, white and blue mission polo shirts and light blue flight overalls. (Photo by Space Frontiers/Getty Images)

STS-30 Crew

I Think I’m Done With T-Shirts

Wimbledon Tennis Championship – Day 11

If Someone Watched You Watch Sports, What Would They See?

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You Can Crab

Paul Kix is an author, entrepreneur, and occasional podcaster. His writing has appeared in places like The New Yorker, GQ, ESPN, and The Wall Street Journal.

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Paul Kix

New York Yankees Workout

Parenting Lessons From An Ill-Advised Trip Into The Yankee Stadium Bleachers

Craig Fehrman is the author of <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Author-in-Chief/Craig-Fehrman/9781476786582">Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote</a>. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana.

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Craig Fehrman

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It Never Ends Like It Should

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Food-Scented Candles Are An Abomination

Vials of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine are pictured during vaccination in Gaza City on March 25, 2021. - Thousands of Palestinian health workers, the elderly, and patients with cancer or kidney disease were set to get Covid-19 vaccines as the health ministry ramped up its inoculation campaign (Photo by Mohammed ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)

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I Got My First Vaccine Dose. Now What?

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Chris Thompson

A turkey leg smothered in some sort of cream-based seafood slop. Delicious.

Stuff And Smother More Food, Goddammit

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The COVID Vaccine’s Side Effects Were No Match For My Steel-Trap Mind And Columnist’s Body (This Time Around, Anyway)

Composer Irving Berlin (1888 Ð 1989) with singer Barry Wood (1909 - 1970) and orchestra leader Ray Bloch (1902 - 1982) recording a song in the 1940's. (Photo by Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Irving Berlin And Other Recording

Elder Wisdom

Never Stop Singing

You Must Have One Trick For The Baby