This is the story White Sox fans have been waiting for all year. That year is almost over, and the White Sox are on the cusp of the wrong kind of history, but with three games remaining they may have ...

The past Sunday’s Singapore Grand Prix was a farewell for Daniel Ricciardo, but only in retrospect. Reporters had all but confirmed that Liam Lawson would receive a permanent seat at VCARB and ...

Does this rise to the level of a full blog? Debatable, but it’s a Friday, and we have stories up on the White Sox and A’s. No ...

On Tuesday night, the Chicago White Sox had a shot at history, if not the kind any team sets out to make. At 36-120, they ...

Bun Ito, a master’s student at Tokyo Metropolitan University and Nagoya University, had begun rearing some Taiwanese tree ...

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Things are not going well for New York City Mayor Eric Adams, and they haven't been for a while. The criminal charges filed against Adams on Thursday account for only a strand in the web of corruption ...

One of the highest honors an athlete can achieve, at least in my piddling personal head canon, is the descriptor "relaxing." It's not the only virtue for an athlete to pursue—its total opposite, ...

This is Defector, a new sports blog and media company. We made this place together, we own it together, we run it together. Without access, without favor, without discretion, and without interference.

Broadly speaking, episodes of The Distraction that are just Drew and me talking tend to break down into two different styles. They can be kind of digressive in ways ...