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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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Talk show host Conan O'Brien appears on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno" at the NBC Studios on September 5, 2003 in Burbank, California.

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The Late-Night Television Wars Are Worth Reliving

Nicholas Russell is a writer from Las Vegas.

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Nicholas Russell

End of life petrol and diesel cars and vans are piled on top of one another as they wait to be recycled in a car scrapyard on November 29, 2022 in Glastonbury, England. The UK scraps over one million cars a year and many more petrol and diesel cars will need to be taken off the road if the Government is to reach its target for the number of electric cars to be reached.

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I Will Drive This Fucked-Up Car Until One Of Us Dies

Corey Atad is a freelancer writer based in Toronto with an unhealthy Air Bud obsession.

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Corey Atad

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The Decemberists Take Me Back And Forth

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Ray Ratto

FC Barcelona women's football team present their Champions League trophy to supporters from the balcony of the Catalan Regional Government headquarters one day after getting their third Champions League triumph, in Barcelona on May 26, 2024. The Catalans finally avenged final defeats by Lyon in 2019 and 2022 yesterday in Bilbao, beating the French giants 2-0 to lift the Champions League for the third time.

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Buy The T-Shirt, Not The Jersey

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Patrick Redford

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 06: Donte DiVincenzo #0, Jalen Brunson #11, and Josh Hart #3 of the New York Knicks react against the Indiana Pacers during Game One of the Eastern Conference Second Round Playoffs at Madison Square Garden on May 06, 2024 in New York City. NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that, by downloading and or using this photograph, User is consenting to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement. ()

Indiana Pacers v New York Knicks – Game One

Vinson Cunningham On The Knicks, Art, And How Basketball Can Help You Live Nobly

B.D. McClay is an essayist and critic.

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11 February 2020, Berlin: Bottles of the brand "Coca Cola" are lined up in the cinema Zoo Palast.

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I Will Never Abandon My Special Little Drink

Mitch Therieau is a writer in California.

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American singer Rob Thomas, of the American rock band Matchbox Twenty, sings on stage during a concert in Los Angeles, California, circa 1996. (Photo by Lester Cohen/Getty Images)

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In Defense Of That Whole Weird ’90s Rock Marble-Mouthed Thing

Erik Baker is a historian and an associate editor at The Drift.

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Professor Richard Dawkins next to a bus displaying an atheist message in Kensington Gardens, London.

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The Ghosts Of New Atheism Still Haunt Us

Fran Hoepfner is a writer and teacher.

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US actor Kevin Costner attends a press conference for the film "Horizon: An American Saga" during the 77th edition of the Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France, on May 20, 2024.

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Dan Brooks writes essays and fiction from Missoula, Montana.

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Taylor Swift performs onstage during the Taylor Swift reputation Stadium Tour at MetLife Stadium on July 21, 2018 in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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Culture Needs More Jerks

Brandy Jensen lives in New Orleans with her dogs.

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Brandy Jensen

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Woman Reclining at Desk Next to Typewriter

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