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Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Today we are turning the column over to esteemed…

I’ve seen enough of J.J. McCarthy. On a weekend where draftmates Bo Nix and Drake Maye assumed full command of the AFC, there was the Vikings…

The Dallas Mavericks fired team president Nico Harrison on Tuesday, a development that was leaked to multiple reporters then confirmed in an open letter from Mavericks…

Insofar as there is any small thing in baseball, one pitch is as discrete as it can get. If you are a good pitcher—at one point,…

Our grotesque slob of a president attended the football game Sunday between the Detroit Lions and the Washington Commanders, held at the far-flung hellhole of a…

While the man inarguably does his research, we must assume that Al Michaels did not read this story when it ran two and a half weeks ago. If…

This thoroughly excellent World Series will go seven games because it needs to go seven games. Not “needs to” in the wishful sense employed by my…

The Toronto Blue Jays are worthy champions by any measure, whether that be Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s outsized gifts, George Springer’s uncanny sense of the moment, or…

In the top of the sixth inning of Game 2 of the ALCS, FS1 ran a surreal segment of play-by-play broadcaster Joe Davis demonstrating how to…

Jacksonville Jaguars move to a 4-1 record atop the NFL with a stunning victory. The news is so big and good that I’ve been cold-calling people right…