In a third-grade classroom exercise, Patrick Kelly wrote that he wanted to become a scientist when he grew up. With that ...

After Viktor Arvidsson’s slapshot beat Panthers goalie Sergei Bobrovsky in the second period, cutting the Oilers’ deficit to ...

Twenty-eight NBA teams lay crumpled and destroyed at the foot of the mountain, defeated for all time, never to rise again from their shame. The Oklahoma City Thunder and Indiana Pacers snarl at each ...

Without Paige Bueckers, the Dallas Wings look like what they were last year, when they were also without Paige Bueckers, ...

Welcome back to Make It Nice, Defector’s best design advice column. Everyone’s saying this! Here are this month’s dilemmas: ...

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It’s not about throwing a punch. We know both these teams can land a haymaker. No team gets this far without that skill, even if each comes at it from a slightly different angle—the Oilers, more ...

This spring, a new business opened on the main drag of my West Philadelphia neighborhood, provoking both excitement and ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The ...

It probably does not matter who occupies the position of hitting coach for the Colorado Rockies. For the previous three ...

The Benham Brothers think they are very funny and very smart. They are 50-year-old tall, blonde, identical twins who have a ...

Spend enough time watching the best chess players in the world play, and even a chess amateur will pick up on something: ...