Tom Ley

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Articles

Bob, That's The Wrong Bryce!

1 month ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

No baseball reporter delivers the goods as consistently as USA Today's Bob Nightengale, by which I mean nobody else in his field possesses even one percent of his ability to make dispassionately tweeting news and information related to Major League Baseball a constant struggle. Bob attempting to break free agency news? A riot. Bob confidently sharing photos that look like they were taken from inside of a vaseline jar? Always kills.
One Good Shot Deserves A Great One

1 month ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

A one-possession NCAA tournament game with seconds on the clock can induce as much dread as anticipation. For as often as situations like these produce iconic buzzer-beaters, they just as often fall victim to college basketball's inherent jankiness—subpar coaches drawing up doomed sets and skittish players momentarily forgetting which direction their basket is. It's a blessing to get one great shot out of a scenario like this; on Sunday night, Colorado State and Maryland gave us two.
Have A Ball In The March Madness Open Thread

1 month ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

The games are in full swing, the sun is out (hopefully, I don't know where you live), and the freakin' weekend is here. Feel free to hang out here and chat while you watch basketball until your eyes bleed.
The Mavericks Don't Want To Talk About Their Creepy AI Video In Which Anthony Davis Points A Gun At His Head

1 month ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

At this point, it would be hard to blame anyone for coming to the conclusion that the Dallas Mavericks will never climb out of this pit. The Luka Doncic trade, which only gets more shocking and stupid as time goes on, is the biggest piece of evidence in support of such a conclusion, but so is the fact that the entire organization has subsequently become snakebitten and overcome by an oafish spirit. Nothing good happens to this team anymore, and it can do nothing right.
Read Mahmoud Khalil's Letter From An ICE Detention Facility

1 month ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

My name is Mahmoud Khalil and I am a political prisoner. I am writing to you from a detention facility in Louisiana where I wake to cold mornings and spend long days bearing witness to the quiet injustices underway against a great many people precluded from the protections of the law. Who has the right to have rights? It is certainly not the humans crowded into the cells here.
Enjoy A Defector Subscription For The Cost Of Two Large Eggs

1 month ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

These days, everyone is always talking about the price of eggs. Well it's time to stop that. Now is the time to talk about the price of blogs: For a limited time, new subscribers can try a month of Defector for just $0.98. That's roughly the going rate for two Large, Grade A eggs!Is a month of Defector blogs more valuable than two eggs? It's frankly disrespectful to even ask. Plunk down $0.98 and you'll have ad-free access to the 200 or so blogs Defector publishes every month.
Bill Belichick: Please Email My Girlfriend

1 month ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

Bill Belichick has a lot of work to do to turn the University of North Carolina football program into a perennial success. That's why the 72-year-old has assembled a team of top football minds around him. All the heavy hitters are here: Michael Lombardi, Freddie Kitchens, Steve Belichick, Matt Lombardi, Mike Priefer, and Jordon Hudson. Hudson is Belichick's 24-year-old girlfriend.
They Should Call It The Free Piss

1 month ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

Who likes The Free Press? This is a question I have found myself asking, more often than is good for me, about Bari Weiss's suddenly large and well-monied media company, which according to the New York Times Magazine has more than three dozen full-time employees and at least 100,000 paying subscribers.
LeBron Damn James

1 month ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

One of the perks of observing LeBron James's 22 NBA seasons is constantly being presented with new, concise ways to sum up the absurdity of that career. Here's one he gave us during last night's 136-115 win over the Pelicans: In a game where James went for 34-8-6 and became the first player in league history to score 50,000 combined postseason and regular-season points, his son played four minutes of garbage time and scored two points.
The Cranks Next Door

2 months ago | defector.com | Tom Ley

This week we're running a small package of essays on the topic of nuisances. Why? That's an annoying question. There are nuisances to be endured in any living situation. I am far from the first rapidly aging man to have abandoned city living—and an apartment with walls that were constantly rattled by an adjacent night club—for a more suburban environment, only to discover that quieting the walls did not solve all of my life's problems.