It’s unlikely that you spend much time thinking about the New Orleans Pelicans. However, as a New Orleans resident for whom ball is life, I am rather fixated on them. This team is far stranger than ...

Like its sludgy predecessor and by design, Game 2 of the WNBA Finals was played as if in the mud. Clean dribbling of the ball ...

Five years ago this fall, The Athletic published a feature in which NWSL players Mana Shim and Sinead Farrelly opened up about their abusive former Portland Thorns coach, Paul Riley. The story ...

Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re talking about hockey, Jane Austen, Steven Spielberg, how to start dating, and more. Drew ...

A Weird Star is a classic place-setter in fiction. Put a Weird Star in the sky, even if it never has anything to do with the ...