Victor Ortega Jiménez was visiting the Atlanta zoo with his family when he became mesmerized by a flock of Chilean flamingos.

The Buffalo Bills of my childhood are not the Buffalo Bills I live with now. They are certainly not the Buffalo Bills I’ve ...

This is Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, in honor of Bills Week ...

There are only two pieces of media that have made me wistful for a small-town/suburban childhood I didn't have: A Christmas Story, and Calvin And Hobbes. Before you accuse me of specifically longing ...

For Bill Guerin, who’s been GM of the Minnesota Wild since 2019, the beginning of this month must have felt like finally taking off an extremely tight pair of pants after a very long day. As a ...

This post was originally published on the author’s Substack on June 24. It has been republished here in conjunction with Bills Week. Everybody knows about the MAGA hat. It’s red. It says what it says ...

We have been living through a pop-cultural age—particularly in cinema—made in Quentin Tarantino’s image. Before Marvel, before George Lucas sold Star Wars to Disney, Tarantino made nerd culture ...

To call it a “pleasant surprise” wouldn’t quite be right. As someone with an abiding interest in the colorful names and nicknames of Brazilian athletes—my all-time favorite remains that of Leandro ...

They were going to make it. After working with three riders all day, staving off the pursuit of five others, and eventually holding off the determined charge of a former world champion, Uno-X’s Jonas ...

Defector is launching two new podcasts in partnership with Radiotopia!  When Kelsey and I handed off Normal Gossip to ...

For a series with little by way of story, it’s impressive how many iconic non-player characters Pokémon has spawned. There is ...

We are forced once again to interrupt Bills Week in order to bring an important matter to your attention: Defector is adding ...