Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

The Club World Cup kicked off over the weekend in the United States, and it’s been a wild ride so far, in the most derogatory way possible. It’s not so much about the games themselves, which have been ...

The San Francisco Giants are about to test the notion that one team’s misalignment is another team’s salvation. In fact, they ...

At some point this season, Shohei Ohtani pitching and hitting will once again become ordinary, and only when he does something truly extraordinary will it be worth writing about. We are not yet at ...

I guess you could read that headline as some sort of condemnation of the Oilers’ brass—that we’re at Game 6 of the Stanley ...

You’re a streetcar operator. If you need more specifics, let’s say it’s fin de siècle Vienna and you’ve got a jaunty cap. Oh ...

There was a sequence in the fourth quarter of Game 5 Monday night where I very nearly chewed through my shirt collar. I should not have had it in my mouth to begin with, but there I was, nibbling on ...

McClain Delaney, House representative for Maryland’s 6th congressional district, did not get off to a hot start in her ...

A romantic comedy often opens with a scene where the protagonist demonstrates that she’s not like other girls. In Legally ...

Shohei Ohtani has not pitched in a game since 2023, when in addition to leading the league in all the cool batting stats he ...

Ladies and gentlemen, your two unfortunates of the past weekend: Lando Norris and local wildlife. The Circuit Gilles ...

There’s a new crossword for you to solve! This week’s puzzle was constructed by Hanh Huynh and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Hanh is a bankruptcy attorney who lives in Brooklyn, N.Y. with his wife and two ...