After all the debate about fair application of Papaya Rules and which of Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri is really McLaren’s number one driver, the answer, as it is turning out, is neither of them. One ...

Welcome back to The Not-So-Great Defector Bake Off, where Kelsey and Chris attempt to complete the technical challenges from the newest season of The Great British Bake Off in their own home kitchens, ...

The National Football League has a firings gap. Though still the worldwide leader in commercial interruptions and enormous American flags, the NFL has fallen shamefully behind its college cousin at ...

The Las Vegas Raiders played the Chiefs on Sunday, or at least appeared on the same field as the Chiefs on Sunday. They were certainly there, in their spiffy white uniforms, in Kansas City, but with ...

The first sign that fight night in Brooklyn on Saturday might not be a big success was the disparity between the line at the front entrance, which was nonexistent, and the line at the side door where ...

Let’s get in the solving zone. This week’s puzzle was constructed by Ben Zimmer (who created our first official Defector puzzle two years ago!), and edited by Hoang-Kim Vu. Ben is a linguist, ...

Who among us doesn’t have musical trauma of some sort? If you didn’t cry through piano lessons as a child, maybe you stared longingly at the student band at high school football games, wishing your ...

It was a lovely, balmy late-fall afternoon. The low sun betrayed the warmth’s incongruence for the time of year, and warned of the inevitable approach of winter. It was a lovely day to be alive, a ...

Aston Villa will be hosting Israeli team Maccabi Tel Aviv in a Europa League match in Birmingham on Nov. 6. Last week, The Athletic reported that the West Midlands Police had requested that Maccabi ...

Here is a sentence you never want written about your soccer team: Twenty minutes after Saturday’s 0-3 loss to Chelsea, Nottingham Forest fired the manager it had hired just 39 days ago. That’s right, ...

Nick Saban, ex-Alabama coach but still somehow patron saint of college football, had some things to say during yesterday’s edition of College GameDay about the “ugliness” faced by his former coaching ...

I’m sure Lane Kiffin had a good time working through his Kirby Smart material. The jokes at the presser, the pregame ...