Imagine, if you would, that a clam was a church. Most of the walls are thick and opaque, protecting the animal’s soft insides ...

Many people conceive of a favorite restaurant as a place of comfort. You walk in and they remember your order. Maybe they make you feel “at home,” let you go off-menu, indulge you with a free glass of ...

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Bill Walsh was the greatest coach in NFL history by public acclaim two decades before Bill Belichick became the greatest ...

Perhaps it is not so impressive for a club that finished in the top four of the Premier League last season to barely beat a struggling RB Leipzig on a late and wickedly deflected goal from, of all ...

If the league’s top teams have offered instructions for building a contender, Valkyries ownership has followed them in the early going. Those instructions, broadly speaking, are to attract and retain ...

Monday's episode of ESPN FC's Extra Time was briefly disrupted by a sound that very much resembled a fart. Dedicated readers of Defector will recall that this sort of thing happened about three years ...

Spare me your analytics, and your short-attention-span-theatre I-only-remember-what-I-stream clucks. Save your explanations ...

I’ve been rewatching Lost, which is streaming on Netflix. When I first started this undertaking, I was able to enjoy each ...

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Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, ...

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