Drew Magary - Defector
WEBSep 24, 2024 · New Defector Merch For Your Baby. Finally, Defector merch for the baby who loves food. Designed by illustrator extraordinaire Hawk Krall, our new Chefector baby onesie is the perfect outfit for those little fans of various mush. And for the food-motivated adult, it's available on a regular T-shirt, too. Help, Help!
The World’s Worst Soccer Team Is Finally Something Else
WEB10:12 AM EDT on September 8, 2024. After a dramatic win to break a globally historic losing streak, now comes the hard part for the San Marino men's national team: fighting the silent but steady creep of complacency. The problem with victory is that it tends to make the victor soft and self-satisfied, especially when it's a new sensation.
What Fantasy Football Means To Incarcerated Managers
WEB2 days ago · When Week 3 of the NFL's preseason ended, the prison day room became a war room. Incarcerated individuals who would usually be engaged in card games, class work, and light-hearted conversations were engaged in serious study, hunched over notebooks, Sports Illustrated magazines, and Football Index Cheat Sheets. Everyone was getting ready to draft their players for our fantasy football league.
East Coast Surfing’s Rich, Overlooked Legacy Gets Its Due
WEBSep 3, 2024 · With so much attention being paid to waves like Teahupo’o in Tahiti and Jaws in Hawaii, lesser-known and lesser-respected spots in East Coast locales like Rhode Island and New Jersey often get overlooked or underestimated. As Abbruzzi put it, his early experiences trying to surf in New Jersey were a bust: “It was cold and flat as a lake.”.
The Plaxico Continuum | Defector
WEBSep 26, 2024 · The Plaxico Continuum. 3:36 PM EDT on September 26, 2024. Broadly speaking, episodes of The Distraction that are just Drew and me talking tend to break down into two different styles. They can be kind of digressive in ways that are personal or just extra loopy, and then there are ones that are ... well, it's still a podcast, and it's still this ...
Antoine Davis | Defector
WEB2 days ago · Antoine E. Davis, 36, is an incarcerated journalist in Washington State. He is a licensed pastor for Freedom Church of Seattle, and Inside Director of Organizing for Look2Justice, an organization that provides civic education to system-impacted communities and works to pass sentence and policy-reform legislation. His writing has been published by Christianity Today, The Guardian, […]
Taylor Fritz Gets Over The Hump | Defector
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Taylor Fritz, who for years has been a top-10 fixture and the leading American in men's tennis, hasn't had the major tournament results to match. On the surface, it's a little odd. The 26-year-old might be the best ball-striker of his American cohort, and he's physically transformed himself into a competent mover, after starting his career as a tottering presence with feet that seemed to fly ...
Well Well Well, Not So Bad To Have A First-Round Bye Now, Is It
WEB2 days ago · But we can still be thankful for it! The Padres' progression into the next round means that we are gifted a five-game series between them and the not-quite-100-win Dodgers. The Braves and their past couple of years can sit down; the Dodgers' stalwarts are the poster boys of postseason choking. The …
Alyssa Thomas Knows Only One Way To Hit A Dagger
WEB5 days ago · Even so, there was something especially vicious about the last shot Alyssa Thomas took Sunday in Game 1 of the Sun-Lynx semifinals. It was the dagger-iest dagger you’ll ever see. Sure, the Aces-Liberty series can offer fans more in the way of on-court star power, and even off-court star power (the first game of that series featured Spike Lee ...
Skink Outside The Box - Defector
WEBSep 4, 2024 · 63Comments. Most skinks look like skinks, by which I mean that most of the 1,500 or so species in the family of lizards we call skinks have the same general body plan. Skinks have no discernible neck and squat little legs. Their heads are shaped like cones and their tails are long and tapered. They have smooth, overlapping scales, like a fish.
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