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Silence! You Are Summoned To Read A Preview Of The 2025 NBA Playoffs

5 days ago | defector.com | Luis Paez-Pumar

Have you seen this? Are you aware of this? The NBA playoffs are about to begin! This is real. I would not lie to you.
At Beautiful Mount Airy Lodge

6 days ago | defector.com | David Roth

It's not quite a large enough sample to be significant, and too inherently insignificant to really be worth the sampling, but we've done enough Drew Is About To Go On Vacation episodes of the podcast by now that I can detect their specific vibrational energy.
Bill Belichick's Girlfriend Asks That Her Boyfriend's Son Receive The "Upmost Respect"

1 week ago | defector.com | Patrick Redford

Bill Belichick's University of North Carolina football team, college sports' strongest argument for open records laws, began spring practices this past weekend. As the 72-year-old head coach sorts through position battles and figures out who's going to play quarterback, the real fun for outside observers is in getting a sense of how much Jordon Hudson, his 24-year-old girlfriend, will be doing for the program.
Point/Counterpoint: JD Vance Drops The National Championship Trophy

1 week ago | defector.com | David Roth

During Monday's White House visit by the FCS National Champion Ohio State Buckeyes, former Ohio Senator and current Vice President JD Vance attempted to pick up the National Championship trophy and did not succeed; Vance fumbled both the top and the bottom of the trophy, the base of which tumbled to the ground. Here, Defector presents two perspectives on the incident. Boy, JD Vance sure did it biff it big time when he tried to pick up the National Championship trophy at the White House yesterday.
Rory McIlroy Feels It All On Sunday

1 week ago | defector.com | Chris Thompson

What I like about that image up there is that it gives very little away. The shortened depth of field, which swirls the faces of spectators in lovely bokeh, leaves you with the raw emotions of the photo's subject. That subject is Rory McIlroy, the face of men's golf; the photo was taken Sunday on the 18th green of Augusta National, upon the completion of the final hole of the Masters Tournament. What is McIlroy feeling, there? Whatever it is, he is feeling a lot of it.
Tottenham Has One Last Chance To Avert Disaster

1 week ago | defector.com | Luis Paez-Pumar

What's another Premier League loss to a team in 15th place? For Tottenham Hotspur, the answer is both "not much" and "a sign of incoming apocalypse." Despite having more money and talent than plenty of teams above them on the table, Spurs continued their lost season on Sunday, traveling to Wolverhampton and coming away with a 4-2 defeat to Wolves, one of the few teams below the North London side in the standings.
For A Good Time And Great Laughs, Try ‘The Pitt’!

1 week ago | defector.com | Dan McQuade

I always intend to take my parents recommendations, but I never seem to get around to them. They’ll tell me to watch a movie, or some TV series, and I really do want to. They have good taste and I like talking to them about this sort of thing. Even the bonnet dramas my mom watches tend to be pretty entertaining. They recommended Jury Duty, and that became one of our favorite shows in a long while. But my wife and I have a 16-month old child.
It's Never Too Early To Get Ready For Gavin McKenna

1 week ago | defector.com | Barry Petchesky

There are prospects and then there are prospects. Gavin McKenna is talented enough and young enough, tearing up the WHL as a teen, and hockey-knowers have a good enough track record of identifying franchise-changing youths early, that the 2026 NHL Draft is settled at the top more than 14 months out.
The NBA Playoffs Will Be A Clash Of Generations And Styles

1 week ago | defector.com | Patrick Redford

A permanent axiom of the NBA: the style of play changes between the regular season and the playoffs. This is because the postseason's structure flattens out several key asynchronicities, like rest, travel, and other scheduling quirks, and because each possession becomes significantly more precious, and therefore subject to greater scrutiny.
Phallon Tullis-Joyce Makes Her Case As The USWNT Holds First Keeper Tryout In 30 Years

1 week ago | defector.com | Patrick Redford

For three decades, the U.S. women's national team has enjoyed the incredible luxury of stability between the posts. Keepers sustain notably longer and more stable primes than other players, and therefore turn over at the international and club levels far less often. But even then, the USWNT getting 30 years of world-class goalkeeping from Briana Scurry, Hope Solo, and Alyssa Naeher is extremely special.