Washington’s win gives the team its first appearance in a conference championship since the 1991 season, and guarantees the ...

Deniz Selman’s family moved to Philadelphia from Turkey when he was four. His parents were basketball fans and quickly became ...

On paper, the Houston Texans outperformed expectations. They ran more plays than the Kansas City Chiefs, possessed the ball ...

Across the entire spectrum of great American icons, there is no one quite like David Lynch. He was a walking enigma: an artist’s artist who was also somehow mainstream, an unapologetic esotericist ...

There is a new viral incident of Philadelphia fan idiocy. As a 41-year-old sportswriter who has lived here his entire life, I ...

Halfway through the first quarter of Oklahoma City’s blowout revenge win over the Cavaliers on Thursday, Max Strus hit a ...

America has now gotten all the Cleveland Cavaliers-Oklahoma City Thunder basketball we will be allowed before June, which is ...

A very public and very online funeral is taking place on TikTok.  “Well, it’s been a good run, my loves. 1.7 million followers. I don’t think I’m going to be able to replicate that anywhere,” KC Davis ...

We are excited to announce that Defector has a new Culture Editor: Brandy Jensen. Brandy comes to us as a free agent, having recently set what must be a record for shortest stint at a media company ...

During the first week of the fires, I would go up to my building’s roof once a day. I’d look at the Los Angeles skyline at whatever shade of yellow-orange-brown muck the fires had delivered that day ...

Collier and Stewart, who both serve on the executive committee of the WNBA players' union, never pitched Unrivaled as a ...

It was a sequence that perfectly captured the Pittsburgh Steelers’ desultory first-round playoff loss to the Baltimore Ravens ...