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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.

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2024 iHeartRadio Music Awards – Arrivals

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When You Eat Poison Long Enough, It Starts To Taste Good

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If You Love Podcasts, Dump Spotify

AMMAN, JORDAN - 1990: Following Iraq's occupation of Kuwait in August 1990, journalists from CNN waiting for an attack on Iraq by United Nations authorized military coalition force, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Amman, Jordan, on December 15, 1990. Although there were 34 member states of the coalition, the overwhelming majority of the military forces participating were from the United States and the United Kingdom. On January 17, 1991 the coalition launched a massive air campaign which began the general offensive codenamed Operation Desert Storm with more than 1,000 sorties launching per day. The Persian Gulf War ended on February 28, 1991. (Photo by Dario Mitidieri/Getty Images)

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You Never Get The Full Story

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A Purse For Whatever Woman You Want To Be

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Defector Reads A Book

Uncoil Your Neck, Turn Down The Cicadas, And Come Chat About ‘Y/N’ With Us

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Who Is Giving Carlos Watson Money Now?

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These Debates Don’t Matter

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Meet Us At Midnight For ‘1989’ (Defector’s Version)

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‘The Golden Bachelor’ Turns Grief Into Joy

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That’s What I Get For Trying To Honor My Ancestors With Chestnuts I Found On The Street

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WASHINGTON, DC - April 7: The fossilized 36 million-year-old skeleton of a tree squirrel known as Douglassciurus jeffersoni is on display as part of the "Objects of Wonder" exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. Paleontologist Gene Hunt, pictured, said it's one of the most complete prehistoric squirrel skeletons ever discovered. (By John Kelly/The Washington Post)

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IGNITION: Future of Media

Gimlet Media’s Story Was Always Going To End Like This

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Let’s All Confess What We Thought Of ‘The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter’

circa 1960: Child actor Johnny Crawford looks forward to eating a pile of pancakes in an International House of Pancakes, a chain of eateries in the USA started in 1958 by Californian brothers Al and Jerome Lapin. (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)

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