There was no big Defector-style Professional Women’s Hockey League season preview last year, because I was (shameless plug) a little busy reporting this feature on the league’s formation. But it’s ...

Hayfield High’s season from hell is done. The Alexandria, Va., school’s leaders tried adopting the winningest football ...

Maybe this is my fault. For years I’ve been begging Kendrick Lamar to lighten up a little. To stop with the hip-hop savior ...

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

Wolverhampton Wanderers are a soccer club in sort of the same way that Silvio Dante’s Bada Bing was an adult entertainment ...

This is the time of year when the best, biggest, and most ambitious movies come out. Not Oscar season, but rather that ...

Welcome to Perfectly Fine Dinner Party Club, a cooking and hosting column from Libby Watson, who likes to throw dinner ...

The NWSL Championship could not have worked out better for the league. The best team in the league, the Orlando Pride, beat ...

Welcome to Margin of Error, a politics column from Tom Scocca, editor of the Indignity newsletter, examining the apocalyptic ...

Who is the real Tottenham Hotspur? Is it the team that’s picked up five early-season losses in the Premier League, most ...

The squirting cucumber Ecballium—not to be confused with the exploding cucumber Cyclanthera—is not a showy plant. It meanders ...

Before Saturday’s NWSL championship-deciding match between the Orlando Pride and the Washington Spirit, Brazilian legend ...