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I Burp My House Now | Defector Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. You can also read Drew over at SFGATE, and buy Drew’s books while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking…

I burp my house now:

Don DeLillo's Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won't Acknowledge | Defector The end of the 1970s seemed to be a moment of uncertainty for Don DeLillo, creatively speaking. The previous decade had seen him become a rather important American author, enough so that he had left…

Don DeLillo’s funniest novel is a 1980 hockey sex romp he won’t acknowledge:

Which Chimp Should Wield The Crystal? | Defector More than a century ago, the Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist Pei Wenzhong found an unusual trove in the same cave near Beijing where he found the skulls of the early hominin Peking Man.…

Which chimp should wield the crystal?

Imagining The End Of College Sports, With Spencer Hall | Defector You think about difficult things when you’re stranded: dark thoughts of vanishing horizons, daunting ifs and thens, promises made to yourself on sleepless nights. And so it was for me last week, when ...

Really good times chatting with Spencer about the uneasy present and future of college sports, which SEC towns are most committed to the Barefoot Is Legal lifestyle, and the extravagant suiting budget of old BBC programming. defector.com/imagining-th...

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

Really good deep dive on the terrible state of hip-hop media archives and what that means for culture writing today

How I Became A Target For Right-Wing Freaks At The Australian Open | Defector Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I w...

Really good story about the indignity of reporting from big sporting events: defector.com/how-i-became...

As Best We Can Tell, Kristi Noem Is Now A Green Lantern Or Some Shit | Defector President Donald Trump did not fire multiply radioactive Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, a day after members of Congress grilled her over agents of her department mu...

congratulations on the new hire at Professor X's School of the Justice League of the Americas or whatever defector.com/as-best-we-c...

Don DeLillo's Funniest Novel Is A 1980 Hockey Sex Romp He Won't Acknowledge | Defector The end of the 1970s seemed to be a moment of uncertainty for Don DeLillo, creatively speaking. The previous decade had seen him become a rather important American author, enough so that he had left h...

Fantastic blog here. defector.com/don-delillo-...

As Best We Can Tell, Kristi Noem Is Now A Green Lantern Or Some Shit | Defector President Donald Trump did not fire multiply radioactive Department of Homeland Security secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, a day after members of Congress grilled her over agents of her department…

As best we can tell, Kristi Noem is now a Green Lantern or some shit:

An Interview With A Tenant Who Doesn't Have Heat In Giannis Antetokounmpo's Building | Defector A tenant in a Brooklyn building owned by Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has not had heat in his apartment since Feb. 23, when a blizzard dropped over 19 inches of snow on New York City. Be...

interviewed someone about what it's like to live in a building owned by a two-time MVP and also not have heat in the aftermath of a blizzard defector.com/an-interview...

Imagining The End Of College Sports, With Spencer Hall | Defector You think about difficult things when you’re stranded: dark thoughts of vanishing horizons, daunting ifs and thens, promises made to yourself on sleepless nights. And so it was for me last week, when…

On the latest episode of The Distraction, Drew and Roth imagine the end of college sports, with Spencer Hall:

How I Became A Target For Right-Wing Freaks At The Australian Open | Defector Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I w...

really great story by @owensports.bsky.social
defector.com/how-i-became...

An Interview With A Tenant Who Doesn't Have Heat In Giannis Antetokounmpo's Building | Defector A tenant in a Brooklyn building owned by Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo has not had heat in his apartment since Feb. 23, when a blizzard dropped over 19 inches of snow on New York City.…

An interview with a tenant who doesn’t have heat in Giannis Antetokounmpo’s building:

Antoine Griezmann Is Still Too Good To Go | Defector We may be witnessing the final days of Antoine Griezmann at Atlético Madrid. French by birth, Spanish by formation, and Uruguayan by choice, the culturally omnivorous superstar is apparently on the…

Antoine Griezmann is still too good to go:

Aston Martin: Driving Our Car Will Maim You | Defector Three days before the first race of the Formula 1 season, it is impossible to overstate just how badly the Aston Martin team, newly headed by racecar guru Adrian Newey, have managed to botch it. Any…

Aston Martin: Driving our car will maim you.

How I Became A Target For Right-Wing Freaks At The Australian Open | Defector Before I went to Melbourne in January to cover the Australian Open for Defector and a couple other publications, I spent some time in New Zealand with my family. We lived there for five years when I…

How I became a target for right-wing freaks at the Australian Open:

No, Seriously, Pay Attention To The Charlotte Hornets | Defector Nobody in the NBA has done nondescript quite like the Charlotte Hornets, and nobody has done it for as long. By long in this context we mean “forever.” They have been the quintessential (and…

No, seriously, pay attention to the Charlotte Hornets:

What's Going On With The WNBA CBA Talks? | Defector In collective bargaining, “things tend to get done at the 11th hour,” Adam Silver said in February, answering questions about the status of the WNBA’s ongoing CBA negotiations. “We are awfully close…

What’s going on with the WNBA CBA talks?

Which Chimp Should Wield The Crystal? | Defector More than a century ago, the Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist Pei Wenzhong found an unusual trove in the same cave near Beijing where he found the skulls of the early hominin Peking Man. Along...

I wrote about which chimp deserves the chance to unlock the healing powers of crystals
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Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different ...

I wrote about old rap magazines, the fight for the future of hip hop’s past, and the impact the digital age has had on history, for @defector.com
defector.com/lost-recipes

Lost Recipes | Defector In 1991, Spin magazine took the Compton rap collective N.W.A out to eat for a profile at the Russian Tea Room in Manhattan. The white author presents gangsta rap as a cynical enterprise, no different…

Lost recipes:

Why Is Soccer’s Most Famous Scoopster Doing PR Work For Saudi Arabia? From the man who brought you questionable journalistic focus on a player accused of rape, comes an outright #ad for Saudi Arabia. That’s soccer scoopster Fabrizio Romano, taking a break from many…

Why is soccer’s most famous scoopster doing PR work for Saudi Arabia?

Anyone Want To See Kash Patel Fall On His Ass While Playing Hockey? | Defector It was a busy week for FBI Director and special little guy Kash Patel. On Sunday, he was slamming Michelob Ultras in Team USA’s locker room. Midweek he was firing a dozen veteran agents in…

Anyone want to see Kash Patel fall on his ass while playing hockey?

Yoko Tawada Is A Genius In Any Language | Defector There’s always a song to sing, but first a silence must be created for the song to be born in. — Yoko Tawada, Paul Celan and the Trans-Tibetan Angel The best argument I can make for why I like…

Yoko Tawada is a genius in any language:

Report: Tyson Vs. Mayweather, The Con In The Congo, Is Off For Now | Defector The scheduled fight that no boxing fans asked for but all of us would have watched, Mike Tyson/Floyd Mayweather, ain’t gonna happen. For now, at least. Veteran boxing insider Dan Rafael reported last…

Report: Tyson vs. Mayweather, the con in the Congo, is off for now.

U.S. Half-Marathon Championships Thrown Into Chaos After Leaders Accidentally Led Off Course | Defector Jess McClain was cruising to her first U.S. half-marathon championship this past weekend in Atlanta when the lead vehicle in charge of driving the course ahead of her made a wrong turn with less than…

U.S. half-marathon championships thrown into chaos after leaders accidentally led off course:

New York Or Nowhere, With Will Menaker | Defector This week on the show, we were thrilled to be joined by Will Menaker. You probably know Will from his work on the Chapo Trap House podcast, but he is also a ball-knower extraordinaire and hardcore…

On the new episode of Nothing But Respect, it's New York or nowhere, with Will Menaker:

World Baseball Classic, Or Assic? | Defector If the 2026 World Baseball Classic is suffering from anything, it is expectation. Three years ago, the WBC ended on a note near-impossible to surpass: two teammates and future Hall of Famers facing…

World Baseball Classic, or Assic?

Kyler Murray Dishonorably Discharged | Defector Kyler Murray will be released by the Arizona Cardinals next week. This isn’t surprising news. In fact, the only reason that Murray’s release is noteworthy is because the NFL offseason has been, to…

Kyler Murray dishonorably discharged:

Which Chimp Should Wield The Crystal? | Defector More than a century ago, the Chinese paleontologist and archaeologist Pei Wenzhong found an unusual trove in the same cave near Beijing where he found the skulls of the early hominin Peking Man.…

Which chimp should wield the crystal?