There are two recurring trans women named Carolina in Sloane Murphy’s short story collection Shut Up I Love You I’ll Call You Tomorrow. One’s nicknamed North, and the other’s nicknamed South, but ...

It’s wise to never expect too much from a clash between two NFC South teams. They tend to be a form of stultifying ...

The Detroit Lions became the first team this season to beat the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday, but nobody on either team really wanted to talk about Detroit’s 19-15 win after it was over. All anyone ...

If one thing’s been made clear through the last decade or so of national politics, it’s that there are John Fettermans hiding ...

What now? Any ideas? The Golden State Valkyries trailed Atlanta by six at halftime, and every point in this series felt like ...

On Friday, the Hobart/Lawrence Police Department released a batch of records related to Packers running back Josh Jacobs’s domestic violence arrest in May. The records reveal that while police were ...

During the first quarter of Thursday’s game between the equally winless Pelicans and Kings, Sacramento rookie Darius Acuff Jr ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something you wanna contribute? Email the Roo. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, ...

There are few joys in sports that can truly exceed a game in which both coaches are in danger of getting fired, and no place ...

Russia, which has been functionally banned from international hockey for more than four years, must be allowed to return to ...

After the first four games of the WNBA Finals, played at the raucous 18,064-seat Chase Center in San Francisco and then at ...

You Can See Everything is the movie event of the fall. Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s documentary has proved to be a potent mixture of zeitgeisty cultural insight and its own ...