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Celtics Jettison Beloved Finals MVP For Lapsed Podcaster And Some Picks
1+ hour, 33+ min ago (715+ words) Defector Celtics Jettison Beloved Finals MVP For Lapsed Podcaster And Some Picks 9: 44 AM EDT on July 2, 2026 The Boston Celtics finally found another team serious about trading for Jaylen Brown. Following a couple of weeks where everyone offered their own opinion…...
This 17th-Century Flemish Painting Held A Gnarly Bat Secret
1+ hour, 22+ min ago (1129+ words) Defector This 17th-Century Flemish Painting Held A Gnarly Bat Secret 10: 22 AM EDT on July 2, 2026 To Jan Brueghel the Elder, paradise could not be contained to a single biome. Many of Brueghel's paintings teem with menageries of birds, mammals, reptiles, and…...
The USMNT Suffered In Style
2+ hour, 46+ min ago (813+ words) It is said, probably more often than is necessary, that a team that loses a player to a red card must be prepared to suffer. This is particularly true when the team that has gone down a man has a…...
Michael Olise And France Are Soccer's Greatest Evangelists
20+ hour, 27+ min ago (1339+ words) Defector Michael Olise And France Are Soccer's Greatest Evangelists 3: 16 PM EDT on July 1, 2026 Though the emotional appeal of soccer is immediate and visceral, especially in the shortcut-to-passion context of an international tournament like the World Cup, the real richness of…...
The Fish Don't Stink
20+ hour, 55+ min ago (584+ words) The Miami Marlins are a winning baseball team. For now. That revelation comes after one of their finest months ever, a 20-6 run that began, hilariously enough, after being swept in a three-game series by the gangrenous Mets and falling behind…...
The Game's About The Ballers
21+ hour, 2+ min ago (526+ words) If there's one clean, satisfying lesson to be taken from the World Cup action we've seen so far, it's this one: Big games tend to be decided by the big dogs. Kylian Mbapp, Erling Haaland, Lionel Messi, Michael Olise, Harry…...
There's No Team Scarier Than Mexico At The Azteca
23+ hour, 54+ min ago (969+ words) Heading into the 2026 World Cup, the Mexican national team had one mission: Finish first in Group A. Beyond the obvious motivation to not lose a game, finishing top of the group guaranteed that El Tri would not leave the terrifying confines…...
Cade Cavalli Insists There Was Nothing Racist About Calling Willson Contreras "Boy"
1+ day, 58+ min ago (717+ words) Defector Cade Cavalli Insists There Was Nothing Racist About Calling Willson Contreras "Boy" 10: 45 AM EDT on July 1, 2026 Cade Cavalli, pitcher for the Washington Nationals, used "boy" Tuesday night in a taunt directed at Willson Contreras of the Boston Red Sox....
Trinket Box Purveyors Are Melting Down
22+ hour, 31+ min ago (443+ words) 1: 12 PM EDT on July 1, 2026 Who among us has not attempted to start a whimsical community-oriented project only for it to devolve into a site of small scale authoritarianism? It happens all the time! It even happened in my own town!...
ESPN Retracts Article About NFL Player And Dead Woman In Dominican Republic
23+ hour, 27+ min ago (225+ words) 12: 17 PM EDT on July 1, 2026 On June 18, ESPN published a report that connected NFL free agent Mike Pennel Jr. to the death of a woman in the Dominican Republic. This week, the network retracted the article and issued a brief statement....