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When I was in college, I declared Diet Coke my enemy. My reason was the only good reason to declare anything an enemy: someone wrote a bad blog about it.  Some girl I didn’t know published an op-ed in ...

Happy new year to one and all. Make a resolution never to do any of these things. All descriptions are taken verbatim from ...

In the summer of 2023, I pitched a story about Jimmy Carter outliving his hospice welcome. Carter, the former president who ...

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This is what the Defector staff enjoyed eating in 2024.

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It was a concerning year. WWE continued to enlarge and enrich itself even as it failed to honestly reckon with the legacy of ...

I stopped drinking alcohol in June 2023, a decision that was long overdue and has since improved my life ...

It's been said many times before, across many different eras, but that doesn't make it any less true: The New York Jets always find new ways to humiliate themselves. Regardless of the circumstances, ...

When Greg Gumbel was named host of the CBS NFL pregame show in 1990, he was viewed as a departure for the network. Brent Musberger had been host of The NFL Today for the past 15 years, and a lot of ...