We followed the Owl Whisperer around the gun battery toward a grove of pitch pines, where he had seen the saw-whet owl. Then ...

Evan Bouchard is the Oilers’ most important player. This does not mean they’d suffer the most if he were removed from the ...

Welcome to the Defector College Football Watch Guide, where Israel Daramola and Ray Ratto will tell you which of the weekend’s college football games are worth giving a crap about. Ray: Good news for ...

You might think of Werner Herzog’s new book, The Future of Truth, as the story of two animals.  On the front cover, you see the silhouette of a lone penguin, somewhere in the middle distance, setting ...

The freshwater flatworm Stenostomum brevipharyngium is, by all accounts, a simple fellow. The worm is small and entirely soft ...

To paraphrase the late, great Prodigy, there are wars going on outside no one is safe from. They are cultural, political, ...

Wednesday night in Los Angeles, it was finally the Blue Jays’ turn to benefit from a historic performance. They’d lost Game 2 ...

Drew Magary’s Thursday Afternoon NFL Dick Joke Jamboroo runs every Thursday at Defector during the NFL season. Got something ...

Last year, Defector’s operations geniuses submitted our annual Tip Jar drives for consideration in the Online Journalism ...

On Oct. 19, American chess grandmaster Daniel Naroditsky was found dead in his Charlotte, N.C. home. He was a few weeks shy ...

The last time the lasting historical footprint of a World Series was left by the losing team was the night of Carlton Fisk’s ...

Here we go again. Serie A featured last season’s best sprint to the finish, with a tight title race, an intense melee for the ...