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By racing the Giro d’Italia, Jonas Vingegaard chose to court the most pressure possible. Not only would he face the ...

The crowd at Arena Monterrey belted “Cielito Lindo,” and the mariachi band played the hero to the ring. The match was mask vs ...

Three years after making the playoffs together and contesting a beautiful, ultimately futile first-round series against the ...

I begin this internship having recently clawed my way back into society after escaping the grips of the common cold. The last ...

Hoopheads across the nation begin their annual vigil Wednesday in anticipation of receiving the thing they most crave in all ...

I wanted to spend the week before I started at Defector relaxing, reclined and pensive while reading books and watching movies that would inspire brilliant blogs I could pitch to Lauren and Brandy. I ...

Nick Bilton, the dumb, dull, and severely underqualified former tech journalist who is now running 60 Minutes at the behest ...

It’s almost time for the World Cup. Before the tournament, we’ll be previewing each of the top 15 teams by FIFA rankings that ...

Three drop shots, three aces—that’s a sequence that I’ll never forget. Nineteen-year-old Joao Fonseca wrapped up his upset of ...

It didn’t take very long for the people who sell baseball to us to sour the vibe of a season that is barely a third of the ...

I was introduced to the work of Kane Parsons via my YouTube algorithm. His first Backrooms video, “The Backrooms (Found ...