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Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different…

Lost recipes:

An Interview With A Tenant Who Doesn't Have Heat In Giannis Antetokounmpo's Building | Defector A tenant in a Brooklyn building owned by Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has not had heat in his apartment since Feb. 23, when a blizzard dropped over 19 inches of snow on New York City.…

An interview with a tenant who doesn’t have heat in Giannis Antetokounmpo’s building:

What's Going On With The WNBA CBA Talks? | Defector In collective bargaining, “things tend to get done at the 11th hour,” Adam Silver said in February, answering questions about the status of the WNBA’s ongoing CBA negotiations. “We are awfully close…

What’s going on with the WNBA CBA talks?

A Helpful Explainer Of Kansas's Lunatic Anti-Trans Law | Defector Last Thursday, the Kansas State legislature passed SB 244, overriding a veto by Governor Laura Kelly and enshrining anti-trans law as unhinged in its fury as it is disheveled in structure. Here at Def...

a banger of a blog by @groan.bsky.social
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The Road To Magic City Monday Is Paved With Good Intentions | Defector Here is a funny headline, from the CBS Sports website: “Hawks will not cancel ‘Magic City’ event despite Luke Kornet’s public plea.” Dang! My faith in Luke Kornet’s power to halt the promotional machi...

The road to Magic City Monday is paved with good intentions: defector.com/the-road-to-...

It's A Dome That's Shaped Like A Saddle | Defector CALGARY, Alberta — The Germans are famous for squishing words together to form useful new compounds. But Calgarians perfected the art when they came up with “Saddledome.” You look at it, and you say, ...

I paid my respects to the Saddledome during what feels like a nadir for the Flames: defector.com/its-a-dome-t...

The Road To Magic City Monday Is Paved With Good Intentions | Defector Here is a funny headline, from the CBS Sports website: “Hawks will not cancel ‘Magic City’ event despite Luke Kornet’s public plea.” Dang! My faith in Luke Kornet’s power to halt the promotional…

The road to Magic City Monday is paved with good intentions:

It's Angst Day In Canada's Angst Capital | Defector Of all the trade deadlines, the NHL’s is the best because it is the most active and most chaotic. How chaotic, you ask? Try this. The St. Louis Blues traded defenseman Colton Parayko to the Buffalo…

It’s angst day in Canada’s angst capital:

'Survivor' Is Better When Everyone Gets A Little Silly With It I remember individual seasons of Survivor by and for their “mood.” This is a nebulous bit of recall, because “mood” (or “vibe,” if you will) is both subjective and insufficient; distilling roughly…

‘Survivor’ is better when everyone gets a little silly with it:

Lou Holtz Lisped Like A Champion | Defector When old guys who played for Lou Holtz talk about him, from my experience, they don’t bring up schemes or Xs and O’s. They bring up speeches from the crusty but legendary coach, TV pundit, and…

Lou Holtz lisped like a champion: defector.com/lou-holtz-li...

A Helpful Explainer Of Kansas's Lunatic Anti-Trans Law | Defector Last Thursday, the Kansas State legislature passed SB 244, overriding a veto by Governor Laura Kelly and enshrining anti-trans law as unhinged in its fury as it is disheveled in structure. Here at…

A helpful explainer of Kansas’s lunatic anti-trans law:

Newly Poly Plover Dad Still Figuring Out His Time Management | Defector The animal kingdom is ruled by open sexual relationships. Bats, beetles, and bonobos all have multiple partners over a season or a lifetime. Barnacles and barracudas don’t even get to pick their partners,...

Newly poly plover dad still figuring out his time management:

It's A Dome That's Shaped Like A Saddle | Defector CALGARY, Alberta — The Germans are famous for squishing words together to form useful new compounds. But Calgarians perfected the art when they came up with “Saddledome.” You look at it, and you say,…

It’s a dome that’s shaped like a saddle:

An Exquisite 2026 Formula 1 Preview For True Sophisticates | Defector The trick with every Formula 1 season is to believe, at the start, that it will be exciting. Fortunately, if last year’s preview was any indication, sports fans tend to be quite good about doing…

An exquisite 2026 Formula 1 preview for true sophisticates:

I Burp My House Now | Defector Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking…

I burp my house now:

Don DeLillo's Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won't Acknowledge | Defector The end of the 1970s seemed to be a moment of uncertainty for Don DeLillo, creatively speaking. The previous decade had seen him become a rather important American author, enough so that he had left…

Don DeLillo’s funniest novel is a 1980 hockey sex romp he won’t acknowledge:

Which Chimp Should Wield The Crystal? | Defector More than a century ago, the Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist Pei Wenzhong found an unusual trove in the same cave near Beijing where he found the skulls of the early hominin Peking Man.…

Which chimp should wield the crystal?

Imagining The End Of College Sports, With Spencer Hall | Defector You think about difficult things when you’re stranded: dark thoughts of vanishing horizons, daunting ifs and thens, promises made to yourself on sleepless nights. And so it was for me last week, when ...

Really good times chatting with Spencer about the uneasy present and future of college sports, which SEC towns are most committed to the Barefoot Is Legal lifestyle, and the extravagant suiting budget of old BBC programming. defector.com/imagining-th...

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

Really good deep dive on the terrible state of hip-hop media archives and what that means for culture writing today

How I Became A Target For Right-Wing Freaks At The Australian Open | Defector Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I w...

Really good story about the indignity of reporting from big sporting events: defector.com/how-i-became...

As Best We Can Tell, Kristi Noem Is Now A Green Lantern Or Some Shit | Defector President Donald Trump did not fire multiply radioactive Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, a day after members of Congress grilled her over agents of her department mu...

congratulations on the new hire at Professor X's School of the Justice League of the Americas or whatever defector.com/as-best-we-c...

Don DeLillo's Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won't Acknowledge | Defector The end of the 1970s seemed to be a moment of uncertainty for Don DeLillo, creatively speaking. The previous decade had seen him become a rather important American author, enough so that he had left h...

Fantastic blog here. defector.com/don-delillo-...

As Best We Can Tell, Kristi Noem Is Now A Green Lantern Or Some Shit | Defector President Donald Trump did not fire multiply radioactive Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, a day after members of Congress grilled her over agents of her department…

As best we can tell, Kristi Noem is now a Green Lantern or some shit:

An Interview With A Tenant Who Doesn't Have Heat In Giannis Antetokounmpo's Building | Defector A tenant in a Brooklyn building owned by Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has not had heat in his apartment since Feb. 23, when a blizzard dropped over 19 inches of snow on New York City. Be...

interviewed someone about what it's like to live in a building owned by a two-time MVP and also not have heat in the aftermath of a blizzard defector.com/an-interview...

Imagining The End Of College Sports, With Spencer Hall | Defector You think about difficult things when you’re stranded: dark thoughts of vanishing horizons, daunting ifs and thens, promises made to yourself on sleepless nights. And so it was for me last week, when…

On the latest episode of The Distraction, Drew and Roth imagine the end of college sports, with Spencer Hall:

How I Became A Target For Right-Wing Freaks At The Australian Open | Defector Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I w...

really great story by @owensports.bsky.social
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An Interview With A Tenant Who Doesn't Have Heat In Giannis Antetokounmpo's Building | Defector A tenant in a Brooklyn building owned by Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has not had heat in his apartment since Feb. 23, when a blizzard dropped over 19 inches of snow on New York City.…

An interview with a tenant who doesn’t have heat in Giannis Antetokounmpo’s building:

Antoine Griezmann Is Still Too Good To Go | Defector We may be witnessing the final days of Antoine Griezmann at Atlético Madrid. French by birth, Spanish by formation, and Uruguayan by choice, the culturally omnivorous superstar is apparently on the…

Antoine Griezmann is still too good to go:

Aston Martin: Driving Our Car Will Maim You | Defector Three days before the first race of the Formula 1 season, it is impossible to overstate just how badly the Aston Martin team, newly headed by racecar guru Adrian Newey, have managed to botch it. Any…

Aston Martin: Driving our car will maim you.

How I Became A Target For Right-Wing Freaks At The Australian Open | Defector Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I…

How I became a target for right-wing freaks at the Australian Open: