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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Nobody does self-loathing quite like baseball, so it comes as little surprise that its governing body has yet again veered away fearfully yet violently from its essential product, so it can avoid ...

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

The Buffalo Bills open training camp a week from today and running back James Cook isn’t happy. A year ago, Cook flourished ...

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

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