On the morning of Game 1 of the NBA Finals, I received an email from the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission (better known as ...

On June 18, ESPN published a report that connected NFL free agent Mike Pennel Jr. to the death of a woman in the Dominican Republic. This week, the network retracted the article and issued a brief ...

Cade Cavalli, pitcher for the Washington Nationals, used “boy” Tuesday night in a taunt directed at Willson Contreras of the Boston Red Sox. Cavalli had caught Contreras looking at a third strike, and ...

Heading into the 2026 World Cup, the Mexican national team had one mission: Finish first in Group A. Beyond the obvious motivation to not lose a game, finishing top of the group guaranteed that El Tri ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew ...

As I spend the early part of the summer talking about the Tour de France with normal people (read: non-cycling fans), there’s ...

The U.S. Supreme Court, in an opinion released Tuesday, voted 6-3 in support of two state laws that ban trans girls and women ...

The drama between Brandon Aiyuk and the San Francisco 49ers has been brewing for nearly a year. Since suffering a torn ACL ...

Why would you watch Germany face World Cup elimination in a penalty kick shootout when you could watch two teams slow-motion ...

Dai dai. Ikou. Dale, allez, let’s go. So says Shakira in the chorus of the 2026 official World Cup song “Dai Dai,” in which ...

For the first time in history, Germany has lost a penalty shootout at the World Cup. A highly anticipated potential ...

There are a million reasons why the World Cup is the greatest sporting event on Earth, and one of those reasons is that it’s ...